In a tiny house, with even smaller closets, half of my mundane clothing resides in a standing closet in the basement
Currently considering another free-standing closet, although where that could go would require lots of clearing out old clutter.
So the question is, how and where do y'all store your garb betwixt faires? Garment bags in closets, 'space bags' with the air sucked out, a closet just for garb??
I would rather not need to iron before each wearing, so folding and boxing just doesn't feel good, to me. It would need to be some kind of huge box anyway, to include the weaponry of this household of three. Not to mention the clothing keeps growing. We now have winter weight items for the Castleteers! There are no hoops or big hats (no hats at all) so space need not be massive.
Hey, just wanted to start a topic I had not seen, before. 8)
my Garb Room doubles as a guest room. Moving it soon to a closet- having guests!
Currently...my bodice is hanging over my mirror on my closet door, with my Sufi pants and skirt for this weekend...
my pouch is on my dresser...
my belt and tankard are hanging from the other door of my room, and my chemise is half in my closet, half in my room??
So, I'd say my garb lives everywhere (in my room.) ;D
let see the cape i wore in April is in the cloth pile
my gown in on top of my crafts box
my sword is in it's sheath in the corner
and my boots strolled on the floor and my bag i'm still dragging it around
My guest room's closet. It gets its own for now until I need to take over my main closet. ;D
Some lives in the closet, some lives in a storage box. The storage box will soon need to be upgraded.... ;D
In plastic storage containers in the Bar
The extra cloak my roommate just gave me the other day is lying over the little tv in my room. My faerie wings are sitting on top of my garb box. One of my overskirts is sitting on the back of the couch downstairs waiting for me to return it to my room. Most of my garb is actually in the garb box though a chemise or two is stuck in one of my drawers....
You get the idea. :) I don't have a special "garb closet" or room or anything. I'll be getting a larger closet after I move next month, though, and I'm fairly certain there will be room in there for my garb as well as my regular clothes.
in a special drawer in my bedroom, and hanging on the bathrobe hook in my dressing area. I know, but closet space here is at a premium.
Most of it hangs up in the closet, odds and ends and stuff that doesn't hang gets stored in a Rubbermaid storage tub. I have it divided up into categories too, noble garb, pirate garb and misc garb. ;D
I purchased a rolling garment rack and the garb is now hanging on that in the basement (got the idea from a friend, who stores her garb the same way). It's organized, which makes it easier to find what I want. I had to do something, it was taking over my closet! :P
Most of it fills a basement storage room but bit and pieces turn up in my bedroom and craft room.
Most of ours hangs on a rolling cart in our closet (thankfully, we have a closet about the size of a small bedroom), belts other accessories are in bins, blades are hanging on walls or standing in corners, and the piles of fabric that want to grow up to be garb are in my sewing room in the basement.
Most of my garb lives in a wonderful, all wood, wardrobe that my mother left to me. Then there's the stuff that's hangoing over the back of our futon, or from the bedroom door, and in our closet.
Our garb has its own closet with most stuff hanging but some goes in containers on the floor or on the shelf.
Really, I *do* prefer to clean and refresh my garb before the first wearing of the season, after it's been stored for 10 months, so easily washable things (shirts, pants, skits, and chemises) go in Rubbermaid tubs. Bodices and small accessories (pouches, some hats, belts, gloves) are also in tubs. Any tub with items that might be sweaty (hats, bodices) is left open. Some hats go in hat boxes; some are stacked on a shelf; some live full-time hanging on bedposts. Gowns, robes, and doublets are in the closet in the guest room. Because we have lots more garb than guests! ;D
Dummies that are naked LOL yes really hahahaha, Fabric goods in a trunk with cedar chips and acid free tissue paper. Leather goods are stored on the display rack or hung from pegs on the walls. I've sold off alot of my excess garb this last winter during the writers strike to make ends meet. Hmmm that means I now have room for more garb...Huzzah the need to go fabric shopping is pulling at me :D
Since I have a double closet in my bedroom for my everyday mundane clothes, I just cleaned out my second clothes closet, where my dress clothes and shoes lived. After getting rid of things I don't wear or use anymore, especially shoes, I divided the closet in half and one half id now housing all my garb and feastware.
i keep my stuff on one side of my closet. but then, i guess i don't have enough to warrant a new dresser/shelf/room. :/
We remodeled - built on to our house last year, and the new bathroom as well as the small library room both have huge closets - so part of that was delegated as garb storage! The swords and walking stick are in an old golf bag in the corner of the closet, the small accessories are in boxes that go into the trunk before we leave home so we don't forget anything, and the wool is in the cedar chest.
i keep all my shirts/doublets/vests/etc for my garb hung up in my closet, my boots in the box they came in, my pants/all accessories stuffed in a backpack, and any wooden weapons in a small tote bag, all of which i keep in my closet. any steel weapons i own are displayed on my bedroom wall, and all my padded foam weapons for the barbarian battles at KCRF are in the trunk of my car.
Hello All!
I have a purple armoire that I house my finished pieces which is in my Craft (what my family calles Crap) room, but my currently To do projects all over my home. So I need to organize my currently doing projects!
So that is the deal!
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My garb has it's own closet...sort of has it's own room. I have a spare bedroom that I am themeing renissance-ish and currently keep all of my garb, camping supplies and assorted sundry other things in there. I've just bought a dresser in there so I'll be able to straighten out the closet and get the camping gear in there.
Most of our garb is on two of those stand alone zippered closets in the family room. It is just Sir Dragon and me and we don't really get that many visitors so it works ;)
*evil giggle*
Between faires my garb has it's own spot in the floor. Sometimes it doesn't even get washed till a few weeks before opening day. I love being a peasant/pyrate! I do admit though, all my leather goods and felt hats are hung up or shelved in my craft/sewing room. Even I have my limits!
I WAS storing the majority of our garb (mine and my daughter's) in the spare bedroom closet. With two more daughters back from college, skirts are squished in my closet, five bodices are hanging on one hanger and everything else is folded/rolled in a bottom dresser drawer. I am seriously going to go through my mundane stuff and toss things to make room for the garb. One must have one's priorities.
Wow... this was a big Thread in the old Castle Well over a year ago.
Great Idea to bring it back! WOOOT to the Poster!
Long hours did I wander the old castle, and never did this subject find. Thanks for the woot, FaireMare. Gratifying to read that so many are housing their garb in much the same manner as we are, in my household. Some unique solutions to be considered, Mayhaps the Phoenix needs must be reborn to insure.......healthy plummage ?
(The plummage don't enter into it)
Keep 'em coming, rennies! 8)
{moderator} hehehehehehe.... Outof like 15.000 posts, you couldnt find it? Go figure?!!! hehehehe.... seriously, i think it really was lost in the dark reaches of the forum, it was due to reserect anyway. {/moderator}
I used to keep all my garb in a drawer. Now that I literally own enough stuff to put in only 2 bags, I have my shirt and pants hanging up in the closet, and belt/pouch/mugs/rope/mug holder in one of the 2 bags
My skirts, chemise, and bodices hang in the closet. My bloomers and hosen in a drawer. My belt, pouches, tankard, & hats are on a hat rack, and my dagger by my bed.
some hanging in the closet, some in plastic totes in the closet and some in large totes behind the dresser. GOD I love garb! ;D Do you ever have enough?
Quote from: LADY JOYCEANNE on May 14, 2008, 04:00:45 PM
some hanging in the closet, some in plastic totes in the closet and some in large totes behind the dresser. GOD I love garb! ;D Do you ever have enough?
No you can never ever have enough garb! ;)
It's on going addiction that we all enjoy suffering from! ;D
Most of it is split between the guest room closet and the master bedroom closet... but all the fox tails, hair scarves, knives, swords, jinglies, and other odds and ends are in the hand basket on the book case in the master bedroom.
I have an apartment ... and I'm a huge crafter as well as a faire addict ... so I didn't really have a choice to box up my garb. I use transluent bins, or the tough plastic ones that are opaque. I roll the clothes (I haven't had a problem with wrinkles that I've noticed) ... and through in a few cedar blocks in between faires. Otherwise they are tossed over furniture or hanging in doorways.
I've been meaning to clear out some of my mundanes to make room ... but I never get around it.
One bedroom apartment with the closet jam packed with stuff. Seems the garb has taken to living on the bedroom door. Shirts and pants are on hangers over the doorknob and the leather tunic's hanger is hooked over the top of the door. The boots are tucked behind the door and the accessories are in a big tote bag (or two or three). The sharp pointies are mostly leaned up against the wall at the end of the hall in what we affectionately call "The Cuisinart of Death".
I was just thinking about this as I was cleaning house the other day... it seemed like everywhere I looked there was a piece of garb, lol! :D Most of it lives in the utility area in plastic bins or in the wardrobe in there. Swords, daggers, cavalier hats, and boots also live out there on various shelves. But my princess dress is hanging in the laundry area, as it is too long to hang anywhere else and not drag, and Ghillies are in my closet. Also R/F pin, random favors and jewelry live in the office/dressing room (our bedroom has no closets and isn't big enough for free-standing wardrobes, so our closets are in the 2nd bedroom/office).
As much as I try to keep it all contained to the guest room closet, it seems to be creeping around the house without my knowledge. So, the majority is in that closet. some is in the craft/sewing closet for alteration/addition, odds and ends are in my bedroom closet and jewelry box, bugs in kitchen..... and wherever else the bits and pieces land after a long weekend.
Brooke
We have a walk-in closet with garb hanging the full length. Footwear strewn on the floor and accessories and kilts in bins along the wall. We could easily garb a family of 5 several different ways over the course of a season, and have...
Since last month (when I moved into my new place) my garb hangs in the closet of my craft room/guest room with most of my other random craft stuff. I started storing them on hangers in clear plastic garment bags, one costume per bag (or thats how I plan it to be eventually) so all I have to do is grab the appropriate ones and go. Need to work on something for accessories now...
Isn't this embarrassing....
I don't have a place just for my garb...I have a small section of my closet that is devoted to "civvies"...the rest is garb. Considering though that I am on cast for one faire, make garb on a regular basis, and am planning on being in more faires than should be healthy, it makes sense that I would have a large selection....nevermind that I have ADD...so I get quickly bored with one dress...If I go to a Faire, I always have more than 3 dresses with me at any given time! LOL!
I have some in my closet, some under my bed, my horns and fans are on the back of my keyboard, a belt is hanging from the keyboard stand and some is on my floor from last week. My room is kinda messy though ::)
I'm jealous of all of you with basements and craft rooms. I keep my garb in my closet in a garment bag. It doesn't take up much room...yet. I only have two sets so far, peasant and middles, so they aren't too bulky. I do have a under the bed storage bag I keep misc. in..stockings...bloomers...belts and attachments. I fair with a group and we've bought one of those rolling garment racks so we're looking forward to seeing how that helps at fair...picture a sleeping pavillion with garb and mundane clothes EVERYWHERE!
Most of my garb lives in two of the 5 drawers that I have. A few bits and pieces get to be special enough to be promoted to the closet. My wings live in the garage, and for the last month some of my garb has been living in my car because I never cleaned it out after faire. Perhaps it's time for me to clean things up and organize.
OOhh, hopefully this weekend I'll be able to get a picture of the room where my garb lives! Gotta clean it up first...
In two rolling luggages, one duffle bag, and a shelf (big boots and two plumed hats) above a bar with hangers holding most of my mundane clothes in me and my wife's bedroom.
Right now my garb lives wherever it wants to. I am still chasing pieces of it all over my house, some in laundry room, sewing room for ironing if it will hold still long enough. a piece or two in the living room. You get the idea. ;)
Some in the MAster Bedroom, Computer room, and a stancding closet in the Basement.
That is just how it is.
Everywhere...I dont think that there is a single room in my house that doesnt have a peice of gerb in it!!
We have 3 "garb-drobes" in the basement where the family's garb is kept, but it still refuses to be contained and can be found migrating to other parts of the house as well. :P :D
I have officially taken over the front hall closet. I moved all the coats to the back so that my garb could be in the front and easily accessible. I was thinking of taking over the storage room and putting in a closet bar to hang things on, but I don't have that much garb...yet ;)
Currently, our garb is the separation between my mundanes and my hubby's in our bedroom closet. However, with a new bodice coming, and plans for new garb for him before 2009 season, as well as a new skirt (or three) for me...I'm hoping that, when we move, our new place has better closet space, because the garb is starting to outgrow its confinement. XD I guess I could always take over the closet in the "game room," but that would require cleaning it out first. 'Course...I'll have to do that when we move anyway. O.o