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[deliriumcrow]

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Saint Exupery's 'The Little Prince' Quiz.
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In other news, I'm making yet another dress, because this time I feel it is necessary. I'm puting up a store online, Three Crows Textiles, to seel various pieces of historical clothes, and I really need to have soemthing to put *in* it. And I'm not really happy with how most of the previous dresses came out. The green one needs serious amounts of work (like putting the closure in the front, because dresses that lace up the back are a pain in the ass, an doing something with the annoying cuffs that don't quite fit right) The red dress, while beautiful and embroidered around the neck, was cut with too little fabric, so the adjustments required to make it fit made the waist too high, as well as the hem. Perhaps if I put it on the dressform and photograph it there.... Eh. So I make another one. The fabric is comepletely non-period, it's a shantung-backed champagne satin, which I cannot document at all. But it's pretty, so I don't care. It is eventually goign to have a surcote (also undocumented fabric) of sage green upholstry brocade with cream and gold for which I also have a lovely gold braid to go around it. Not shiny gold, just a straw-gold colour. It's very pretty, and very heavy and stiff. It was also terribly expensive, and was goign to be my wedding dress until I decided to do 18th century rather than 14th. And I will soon start on Remy's gold silk cote, because it also seems like a good idea. I'm bored of making mud-garb! But for this I have to re-draft his pattern, because a) I lost the original, and b) it didn't look quite right anyway. A little *too* tight, and while it is supposed to be somewhat tight and short, not quite to that degree, I think. So soon he will have the new, improved, shiny version. And I will have another thing to put up. I *could* put up the other one, but...umm... It's paisley. While the fabric is of *a* period, it isn't the right one. It was chosen with the sole intent of annoying people. It also seems to have worked quite well in that regard. Heh.

I will be posting when I get the site up, and then you will all be politely exhorted to purcahse interesting garments. :) And I have another order, possibly! Elizabeth, savior of us all, wants some Ren-Faire clothes, and I said sure. Fortune-teller type dresses, I'd assume, seeing as that's what she's doing.

Comments

[manycolored.livejournal.com]

Could I commission a crazy "gypsy" dress with flouncy layered skirts in rich colours, and sinful, explosive cleavage?

[deliriumcrow.livejournal.com]

Of course! Oooh.... getting ideas now. There are some styles that could look smashing on you. ;)

[indigoboi76.livejournal.com]

can i have a new dress?

[deliriumcrow.livejournal.com]

Of course. ;) And if you still want to do the Ottoman stuff at any point (Yes, I know you're still poor, but that doesn't mean I cant start drafting plans for it. By the time I'm done experimenting and researching you probably won't be) then I'm still liking that idea. If nothing else, there's always the cheap cotton stage. Which is good for practice anyway, before getting into the silks and brocades I know you'll be wanting.