I am trying to amass a wardrobe all in different colors. But I have noticed that some people seem to have garb in mostly very similar colors, i.e. shades of blue.
What category do you fall in?
I've noticed that that we tend to go in the reds. Even before the PP character came into exisitance, I was working on my "Briar Rose" character.
Over the past 10 years everything seems to have evolved. Early garb was rust, blues and blacks, now is red, pinks, white, black, and with some blue in back up garb.
I've noticed most of my stuff is browns and/or greens, which is odd since my favorite color is red and I have absolutely nothing red in my garb wardrobe.
Nope! I have all sorts of colors, even ones I normally don't care for! One of my very very very favorite pieces of garb is my Extremely Pink Corset, and I normally *hate* pink!
...But that might also explain why I haven't been able to come up with anything to wear with it in the last 2+ years (it's so pretty I wear it out, like a bodice, but the only thing it seems to go with is a navy blue skirt). :-\
I seemed to stick to greens and black. I am trying to change that up, I have some nice pinks and darkish lavender skirts and some other colors. I just need more time in the day to sew some new stuff! My work stuff is eating all my time
I tend to go for more earth tones (greens and browns) but I'm starting to plan out garb in terms of "what color do I not have yet?" So, Purple, yellow, blue, and red are up next :)
I am definitely drawn to shades of green and shades of wine and then I tend to accent those with yellows. My sister has most of her garb in shades of blue with red accents. I love her garb, it is so fun! =)
Mine own garb is in dire need of being updated, and is in the grey and brown range, which I am not totally happy with. There is a wonderful deep teal sitting in my stash for a new doublet. I do seem to do mainly blue and green for my wife, burgundy and purple for my daughter, and a lot of green and yellow for my son. I think for the kids its mainly because I still have the fabric and their stuff doesn't take too much for any one piece (and my daughter always asks for purple). It looks like everyone needs a new round of garb this year (which most likely means everyone else, then a piece or two for me if there is time) so maybe things'll change color.
I have alot of burgundy and black but I am drawn to the grass greens, sunshine yellows and peacock blues.
Deep jewel tones, nothing 'warm' but cool colours work best.
I do blue. Blue blue blue blue blue. It's my favorite color. Even when I branch out with green, purple and burgundy, I have to coordinate with blue. One reason, besides it being my favorite color, is that my boots are blue and black and I paid way too freakin much to get boots in different colors, and no matter what I wear you'll see at least a part of the blue on the boots at some point. But I like blue so it works for me.
I've managed, after much agnst to break my adult onset ADD, to stop trying to be too matchy-matchy with Sidekick, so that helps a bit. But I guarantee I have blue on me somewhere all the time!
I'm with you, Kett. Blue, blue, and more blue. Blue with green, blue in my plaids, a blue corset. . .I'm spicing it up this year a bit, with a grey and green outfit. . .but I'm still making more blue outfits. I've given up on fighting the urge. :)
A bit of it seems to be finding the fact that if you have new stuff, you have to have the rest to go with it. (Hats, pouches, whatever...)
Guys are lucky, black or brown for pouches and boots seems to go with most everything!
Major costume colors since starting to work faire (not including peasants):
Red and Black (Yeoman of the Guard - Christopher "Kit" Foxe): Red and Black doublet and paned slops.
Brick Doublet and Grey Pants with Grey Coat and Grey Fox fur collar (Gentlemen Adventurers - John Davies)
Orange Doublet, Green Trunk Hose, Green Cape (Court - John Davies)
Green and Gold (Gold and Green Brocade body, Green Velvet shoulders, Lime Sleeves, Alternating Green and Gold Brocade and Green Velvet Panes on Slops with a Gold silk bag, Green Velvet cape with Gold embroidery, Goldish-green piping through out costume) (Court - Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre of the South).
So a great deal of green... When we make the next costume in about 3 years, I'll see what the fabric district has to offer!
When I bought my shop in 1998, I had to submit plans for my sign and shop colors. Festival management decided what colors I could have. So, usually, I try to coordinate our garb colors with the shop colors. Red, rust, black, green and golds. I like plum, burgundy and purples, though, so there are some of those. My granddaughters always wanted pink and purple, but the older one wants blues and greens now.
The Colors of the House of Olmsted are Reds, Golds, and Black. I tend to stick with those colors because they represent Nobleness. They are classic colors.
I'm trying to stick with blues. When I first started sewing, I went with whatever fabrics caught my eye, but I've since realized that if all the garb is in the same color family, it can be mixed and matched.
That said, although all of my recent garb and most of my upcoming garb is in shades of blue, the one I'm working on right now is red and white floral. Though I think there might be a little blue in it (I hope!)
Interesting question!
I know I've made many pink dresses, even though I'm not too "pink" a person in real life. It might be some surpressed princess dream from my youth, I dunno.
However, I have noticed that I have a tendency to go for strong "jewel colours", especially for my Renaissance dresses. Because of this, I think I would like to make a black or muted dress next, to work with making cool details and maybe flashing lining instead of strong colours in the fancy fabric.
I'm hoping that the petticoat from my 18th C lilac outfit can be used again for the lilac Restoration era piece I'm making next year, but other than that, no. My theme is 'It's that colour because that was what I had i the stash!'
That said, there might be a damson/purple thing going on. Present gown is damson and the Wicked Lady gown was purple, and then there's the lilac...
But the other gown for this year is brown, and next year's day dress will be very dark navy, with white collar and cuffs... Rather Puritan, really.
In the attempt to be at least somewhat H/A, I conciously chose blue as my main color.
I am drawn to blue as one of 'my' best colors.
Since then, the most economical path has been to stick with that scheme.
Branching out to greens, soon, although I don't feel green suits me well. Received a main
piece in green as a hand-me-down, and found a good fabric in the half-price bins at Jo-Anns.
I never had really thought of it. But now that I do....my garb is all over the place, color-wise. There's really no rhyme or reason to it. Just what ever fabric jumped out at me and said.....HEY I want to be garb!!!
Pinks and reds normally, if I can. The reason is very simple - I look good in pinks and reds. If you want to see something scary, me in the wrong shade of blue is terrifying. I look like night of the living dead and totally zombified. Certain browns are fine; black is okay if it has a red or pink accent. Only Aqua seems to work and even then it has to be a bright aqua when it comes to blue. Navy blue and I do not get along. I am not a winter. I am very much an autumn.
Quote from: flidais on May 03, 2011, 08:22:19 AM
I never had really thought of it. But now that I do....my garb is all over the place, color-wise. There's really no rhyme or reason to it. Just what ever fabric jumped out at me and said.....HEY I want to be garb!!!
I'm the same way! I love the remnants sections at Hancock's so a lot of my garb comes from there. That means color choice isn't always an option! ;D And now I'm trying to go thru the stash, which means no telling what I'll get! I don't worry about matching colors anyway with my pieces. As long as it's not totally ugly... ;)
I can see how it seems more economical to buy fabric in similar colors for coordinating pieces.
I guess it took awhile for me to lose the modern idea of making pieces of colors that 'went together'.
I have a cocoa dress that the undersleeves and underskirt can be changed out. One set is paprika and the other set is emerald gree. The same undersleeves and skirt can also be used with a periwinkle blue gown.
Check out some of the period portraits. There are a few that have eye-watering color combinations.
I have a tendency toward deep greens & purples, nice jewel tones, not pale
I love the red, white & black combo and tend to go for it a lot, but I also love all the jewel colors. I am branching out and trying my first green & tan outfit this year though.
I'm with Dona Catalina. I have been trying to make more of an effort to step away from the modern trappings of "matching" colors. Now I throw fabric on the cutting table and things that seem to go together get made into pieces that will eventually go together. ;D I still need to work on that part but admitting you have a problem is the first step!
As for what colors I have been using, I'm all over the spectrum from chartruese linen mixed with purple and orange to teal blue velvet with jewel tones. I rarely wear black, though.
Quote from: isabelladangelo on May 03, 2011, 08:43:12 AM
Pinks and reds normally, if I can. The reason is very simple - I look good in pinks and reds. If you want to see something scary, me in the wrong shade of blue is terrifying. I look like night of the living dead and totally zombified. Certain browns are fine; black is okay if it has a red or pink accent. Only Aqua seems to work and even then it has to be a bright aqua when it comes to blue. Navy blue and I do not get along. I am not a winter. I am very much an autumn.
You should see me in purple. Ick. Same with certain shades of Plum and magenta, they makes my skin look yellow.
My garb tends to be all over the color wheel since I don't make that many pieces, and I used to shop the clearance items for Likely Lotus, Sofi's Stiches and T'ger Toggs
a lot , so you can imagine I have everything from berry to black, and some really strange combinations that I am still trying to get up the courage to wear.
I walk through a store till something screams at me... then I find what screams to go with it! Then i look at the price, pocket book, and how many things but be given up to buy it. I WILL make a sunset dress one day!
I am a person or creature of habit! I do tend to go looking for different colors? When I get home? I am in purples/blues/greens. I do not like red so because of that? I never pick up the Red Family nor do I really like the brown/golds because my mother would dress me in those colors all the time and did my room in those colors. (Mommy Issues anyone? :D ). So really? I am always looking for Silvers/Purples/Blues/Teals/Greens they make me happy!
Now of course? I gave birth to a child who adores Reds/Golds, so now I am looking often for him and what he would enjoy so I have had to open my mind, not for me but for the son.
Cilean
I try to keep my garb to black, deep red, and golds, so that I can mix and match if needed (foreparts and sleeves, mostly).
But what I really want is a periwinkle blue silk gown with peacock blue, and gold accents. Will I ever get it? Maybe I'll save all of my faire earnings this year...
Am dying more linen damson jam coloured this weekend... ;D ;D ;D
my favorite colors are green and black, so most of my garb is either green or black, as well as shades of blue. I bought some real pretty wine colored fabric this past winter, and some of the same fabric in shades of brown today, so I will be adding those soon. (and by soon, I mean within the next year LOL)
Quote from: Kate XXXXXX on May 06, 2011, 11:46:15 AM
Am dying more linen damson jam coloured this weekend... ;D ;D ;D
Strawberry jam?
DAMSON... I sed so, innit! ;)
Ooooo, does the color come out as dark as the plums? I'm all about the blues....
Got my eye on a micro-suede upholstery at my job, a color they are dropping, called Jam.
Very deep blue, destined for couch cushions.
Almost exactly the same as the damson coloured twill I'm using for my pirate dress:
(http://pics.livejournal.com/katexxxxxx/pic/0046rtfq/s640x480)
I typically wear black, purple, and teal...but I had fabric left from someone else's garb I made and I made a vest from it that's tan, gold, brown, olive, rust, and burgandy stripeyness and a brown waist cincher. So now I'm trying to add to that color scheme (a rust colored skirt most recently) so that hopefully the two color schemes will eventually bleed together.