So, I'm about 1 piece away from having my first *dream* garb pretty much put together. My boyfriend just ordered me a skirt that I fell in love with tonight for my birthday and I couldn't be happier. I've been in the faire-going business for about 6 years now but only recently started buying specific pieces for my garb. I'm so giddy to have it so close in sight!
Now, no matter if you have 10 noble dresses decked out with all the seed pearls in space, I know that everyone has got to have an ultimate outfit they've always dreamed of. Maybe you've always been HA but secretly wished to be a fairy with real flapping wings or suppose you're a cabin boy dreaming of an amazing captains coat? Or maybe you actually have literally everything you ever wanted in your garb and you're set for life, in which case that's really awesome, don't mind the lovely shade of green I'm turning, that's just envy. Tell us about it though! It doesn't even have to be super decked out stuff. If you've always wanted a certain look in garb, no matter what social class, that's completely fine too. My look is like some sort of middle class pirate with this circus thing going on. Kind of hard to explain.
What would your dream garb look like if money was absolutely no option? Really go all out on this, you know? One night I tried to plan my dream vacation and imagined if money was no option and still tried to shop around for the best deals but no! Don't do that. Who cares if it costs more than your first car, if you drool over it, put it in here. Post pics!
Now, if there's already a post about this, this'll be my bad, but if there's not, turn a blind eye to the dollar signs and dream big
I'm half way there with my 18th C wardrobe!
Banyan
3 shifts (2 sewn, one cut)
Flannelet petticoat (only needs the waist tapes!)
Pocket hoops (complete)
Green silk stays (a little inside finishing to do... )
Saque (half made in purple with black and pewter lace!)
Polonaise (fabric on the way!)
Caraco (fabric washed and ready)
Quilted petticoat (fabrics chosen)
Straw hat (complete)
Tricorne (complete)
Gainsborough hat (made but needs trimming)
The Elizabethan one I want to make is this:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2093/3662440840_b3e8d3d467_o.jpg)
The lace will be the hard part...
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Lettice_Knollys1.jpg/439px-Lettice_Knollys1.jpg)
This is my favorite portrait of Lettice Knollys. Whose Mother was Lady Catehrine Carey, daughter of Mary Boleyn and William Carey. Cousin to Queen Elizabeth I.
This is dream garb that would take me years to save up for and do.
Both of those look very formidable yet awesome projects! those sleeves, wow...That's some crazy detail. But, I'm sure they did look and will look amazing :)
I did it! My Snow White Noble gown...something I had wanted to do for a very long time...
(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs444.ash1/24510_330708432828_616512828_3407748_373583_n.jpg)
It didnt turn out perfectly...The sleeves were a bit tight so it was difficult to wear it all day...also being skinny and small chested sometimes means in order to have any cleavage your rib cage must be crushed. I'm sure I'll redo this again...I'm starting work on my Steampunk Snow White soonish using fabric left over from this haha...
The #1 Rule of garbing is...."Garb is always a constant work in progress."
(http://hoocher.com/Tiziano_Vecelli/Titian_Empress_Isabel_of_Portugal.jpg)
Plus about 100 others. ;)
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b155/tigereatsfire/erzsebet-bathory-with-frame.jpg)
Hopefully for next season :)
While I've always wanted to try wearing a noble gown (just because I've never worn one before), that's more of just a curiosity thing. My real dream is to make an outfit - of any style...be it peasant, noble, pirate, whatever - that I have completely made myself. I've made lots of random pieces, but never a complete outfit, top to bottom. I always end up buying one piece because I run out of time, or can't find appropriate fabric (or just hate making bodices, hehe). Isn't it funny how sometimes our dream outfits can really be something rather simple?
-sharon
I don't think I *have* "dream garb," so much as I have WIPs in varying levels of "ever will get done-ness." It's not so much about fantasizing about having a particular outfit as it is fantasizing about MAKING things, for me. And what I'm fantasizing about varies from day to day.
But, that said, here's one I love to pieces and will never ever have the skills, time, or materials to make, let alone the figure that would make actually *wearing* it feasible:
(http://pic50.picturetrail.com/VOL417/1033223/17480040/316755357.jpg)
I'm sorry that she's headless! :o I'll try to track down the whole portrait!
ETA: And how totally IRONIC that she's headless, because she's Fede Galizia's Judith Beheading Holofernes! LOL
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/br/0/08/GaliziaJudith_with_the_head_of_Holofernes.jpeg)
Hopefully, I'll get to make a Spanish surcote I've been dying to make for a while soon. It's going to be out of this *gorgeous* black velvet embroidered in silver but, the fabric is so pretty, I haven't had the heart to cut it yet. :-\
(http://www.elizabethan-portraits.com/HelenaSnakeborg.jpg)
I started to make an exact replica of the sleeves many many years ago via embroidery. I think I got two strawberries done! :-) Based on information I know now, I think the partlet and sleeves are most likely a print or painted which would make it a bit easier... but to find that print! Oh well, when Spoonflower prints hanky weight linen, maybe! ;)
isabella!! I love that portrait as well as the gown. I have that portrait on my Business card as a matter of fact because it so colorful.
I am still new to faire so I haven't yet figured out what my dream outfit is. But right now I have no interest in wearing anything very fancy. I don't want anything that I will worry about messing up. I prefer the simple peasent/merchant/wench looks. And I know I do not like the corsets that smash the girls flat. I am not big chested, but I prefer the underbust style because they are more comfortable to me. That being said, I love the cut of the picture you posted, Gem. The decoration is to much for me, but the style I love.
I have a character that I play at various medieval events- Molly Taylor the Seamstress. It's educational, so I have to be dressed in fairly H/A medieval clothing. I have the character figured out in my mind perfectly. I know how she talks, how she moves, who she likes, why she does things.
Somehow or other, every time I see a picture of me playing that character, I don't look right. I don't know what it is. The outfit doesn't match the character. It drives me up the wall.
So my dream outfit is whatever it is that poor Molly Taylor would wear. Some day I'll get her right.
Quote from: GirlChris on July 04, 2010, 10:09:55 PM
I have a character that I play at various medieval events- Molly Taylor the Seamstress. It's educational, so I have to be dressed in fairly H/A medieval clothing. I have the character figured out in my mind perfectly. I know how she talks, how she moves, who she likes, why she does things.
Somehow or other, every time I see a picture of me playing that character, I don't look right. I don't know what it is. The outfit doesn't match the character. It drives me up the wall.
So my dream outfit is whatever it is that poor Molly Taylor would wear. Some day I'll get her right.
What country and decade is Molly from? Maybe all of us on the boards can help!
(http://rlv.zcache.com/portrait_of_queen_elizabeth_of_bohemia_oval_photosculpture-p153586288455555708tro3_210.jpg)
Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia.
Why? 1 - you don't see much of the garb so I can do whatever I want with the skirt
2 - My hair fits perfectly. ;)
Quote from: isabelladangelo on July 05, 2010, 09:22:12 AM
What country and decade is Molly from? Maybe all of us on the boards can help!
Molly is a late 12th century English commoner. Her father is a Master in the tailor's guild. They live in a very small village so they are comfortable but not rolling in money. She sews herself and assists in her father's shop. She is unmarried, but has the occasional suitor. She's a bit of a flirt. She enjoys bossing people around, but is VERY deferential to the nobility. She is not so deferential to the Sheriff and Mayor, because they grew up together and she can still beat the tar out of them.
Anything I wear has to have a lot of movement built in, because I do stage combat, and needs to cover a lot of skin because I burn VERY fast.
No preferences on colours, but I should probably stay away from green since we're heading into the rule of Richard the Lionheart, so we might have a bunch of Merry Men running around.
Quote from: CapnFayeCutler on July 05, 2010, 09:29:01 PM
(http://rlv.zcache.com/portrait_of_queen_elizabeth_of_bohemia_oval_photosculpture-p153586288455555708tro3_210.jpg)
Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia.
Why? 1 - you don't see much of the garb so I can do whatever I want with the skirt
2 - My hair fits perfectly. ;)
This is not the same dress, but it looks to be the same style.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3438/3773671808_69cb69ea32_o.jpg)
Quote from: Tygrkat on July 02, 2010, 01:51:46 PM
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b155/tigereatsfire/erzsebet-bathory-with-frame.jpg)
Hopefully for next season :)
Oooo Elizabeth Bathory...that's one of my dream outfits too. And it's not one of those over the top noble gowns, but she has such story behind her that I just want it.
So about that skirt I was to have ordered, I'm going to say never buy from Fanplusfriend.com. They sell mostly anime/lolita styled clothing but I really loved a skirt they had to go with a pirate set I'm working on. I put in the credit card info and everything looked great, it looked like I bought it. Then I get an email saying they need me to go to another site to enter in the same credit card info because they could not charge my card the first time. I read up on them quite a bit before ordering and I never saw anyone have this problem, however costume ordered were many times messed up. But I just had a bad feeling, so I ended up not ordering the skirt :/ I am thinking of looking into working with a seamstress to have it custom done, but that's for another time.
But anyhoodle, all these pictures are great! I really hope some day you guys get to make them exactly the way you want them! I've always wanted a painted pair of wings from Fancy Fairy like these
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2773/4405443370_e5faa83814_m.jpg) (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4005/4405444062_28919b92df_m.jpg)
Of course then I'd need to put together a fairy outfit, as I have nothing for it, but planning a new set is always fun :)
Quote from: GirlChris on July 06, 2010, 10:01:05 AM
Molly is a late 12th century English commoner. Her father is a Master in the tailor's guild. They live in a very small village so they are comfortable but not rolling in money. She sews herself and assists in her father's shop. She is unmarried, but has the occasional suitor. She's a bit of a flirt. She enjoys bossing people around, but is VERY deferential to the nobility. She is not so deferential to the Sheriff and Mayor, because they grew up together and she can still beat the tar out of them.
http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~lwittie/sca/garb/bliaut.html
http://www.chateau-michel.org/belle_bliaut.htm
http://web.comhem.se/~u41200125/greenbliaut.html
A bliaut then! Bliauts are very easy to dress up or down and you can really have a lot of fun with the design. It's supposed to "scrunch" up at the waist so you might want to make it long waisted to have that done naturally.
Quote from: isabelladangelo on July 08, 2010, 06:57:31 AM
http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~lwittie/sca/garb/bliaut.html
http://www.chateau-michel.org/belle_bliaut.htm
http://web.comhem.se/~u41200125/greenbliaut.html
A bliaut then! Bliauts are very easy to dress up or down and you can really have a lot of fun with the design. It's supposed to "scrunch" up at the waist so you might want to make it long waisted to have that done naturally.
Oh, I know the style that it should be. It's more the accessories and hair style that somehow aren't "right" yet.
Well, a picture might help. :)
Quote from: flidais on July 06, 2010, 11:22:09 AM
Quote from: Tygrkat on July 02, 2010, 01:51:46 PM
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b155/tigereatsfire/erzsebet-bathory-with-frame.jpg)
Hopefully for next season :)
Oooo Elizabeth Bathory...that's one of my dream outfits too. And it's not one of those over the top noble gowns, but she has such story behind her that I just want it.
Her story is what drew me to her in the first place (grisly and dark, but definitely fascinating!), and when I saw the portrait I knew what my next gown would look like :)
I see all these lovely noble gowns, and I start to think I might just be a bit... odd... with my choice. I've been thinking I might want to make something sewn completely from the bits of leather one might glean from a tanners shop if one were allowed to sweep up the scraps... A cloak, perhaps, or skirt... or maybe both.
I think a skirt & cloak like that would be quite lovely, Rani Zemirah, and would suit you well! :)
Oh, thank you, Tygrkat! I think it would be fun, and I've been gathering bits for quite a while now, but I still have lots to find before I have anywhere near enough. It's a fun project to contemplate, though. Still, all these beautiful gowns do kind of make me think it would be fun to have at least one set of upper class garb, at some point! They're all so lovely, and so fine... :)
Quote from: Rani Zemirah on July 09, 2010, 03:10:04 AM
I see all these lovely noble gowns, and I start to think I might just be a bit... odd... with my choice. I've been thinking I might want to make something sewn completely from the bits of leather one might glean from a tanners shop if one were allowed to sweep up the scraps... A cloak, perhaps, or skirt... or maybe both.
What you might consider is a doublet. You can see a couple of extant ones in this link (http://www.kostym.cz/Anglicky/I_02_08.htm) and ladies wearing them in this one (http://www.festiveattyre.com/research/diary2002/page1.html). They are sorely under represented and it would look awesome with a Sherwood green linen or wool skirt.
Isabella, great links! I hadn't seen the Festive Attyre doublet page before (although the Lavinia Fontanai portrait is actually my calendar picture for the month!).
Quote from: isabelladangelo on July 10, 2010, 02:03:26 AM
Quote from: Rani Zemirah on July 09, 2010, 03:10:04 AM
I see all these lovely noble gowns, and I start to think I might just be a bit... odd... with my choice. I've been thinking I might want to make something sewn completely from the bits of leather one might glean from a tanners shop if one were allowed to sweep up the scraps... A cloak, perhaps, or skirt... or maybe both.
What you might consider is a doublet. You can see a couple of extant ones in this link (http://www.kostym.cz/Anglicky/I_02_08.htm) and ladies wearing them in this one (http://www.festiveattyre.com/research/diary2002/page1.html). They are sorely under represented and it would look awesome with a Sherwood green linen or wool skirt.
Oh, my! Now that gives me something altogether different to think about! Thank you, Isabella! What amazing links, and what wonderful ideas... :)
Quote from: Rani Zemirah on July 10, 2010, 02:05:54 PM
Oh, my! Now that gives me something altogether different to think about! Thank you, Isabella! What amazing links, and what wonderful ideas... :)
;D You're welcome! My favorite leather jerkin is at the museum of London. You can see a small picture of it here (http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/EventsExhibitions/Permanent/medieval/themes/1023/1027) but there are some lovely photos and drawings of it in Patterns of Fashion. Given all the little hearts and stars pinked out of it, I can totally see a lady wearing it!
Oh, how gorgeous! I have nowhere near that level of skill, or ever likely to... but I am very impressed by all the lovely work that's always displayed here, and wish I had more time to devote to practicing. Fairly simple things are all I have the nerve to try, but maybe someday I'll be able to afford to commission something this magnificent! :)