This is one of my favorite new acquisitions!! Milord bought me about 3.5 yards of this beautiful fabric (http://www.hancockfabrics.com/viewproduct.htm?productId=147459458) for my birthday. At first I thought it might become an embroidered jacket, but it's quite lightweight, and last night it announced that it wants to be a chemise! Huzzah! It will be lovely!
It's a semi-sheer embroidered cotton in a soft cream, with brown and palest beige chainstitch tulips:
(http://pic50.picturetrail.com/VOL417/1033223/24167320/403562559.jpg)
(my photo)
(http://pic50.picturetrail.com/VOL417/1033223/24167320/403562561.jpg)
(Hancock's photo)
(http://pic50.picturetrail.com/VOL417/1033223/24167320/403562562.jpg)
Closeup of tulip motif.
The scale of the embroidery is exactly right for a chemise, and I think I want fairly full sleeves to take advantage of the design. But... what else? High neck? Low? Square?
Inspire me, gentles!! I have PoF4, but I'd love to hear what strikes everyone's fancy.
(If I don't have enough for a short chemise--which I may well not--happily, there seems to be plenty in stock on Hancock's website, and I can pick up a couple more yards.)
I would suggest you create a High Necked Smock, I think it would look smashing!! And add some lace to the neckline boxpleated will really stand out!
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YpFZVVY-vFU/TZ7HcTylaJI/AAAAAAAAALU/XGgzGgCK4-g/s1600/Drea+bath+smocks.jpg)
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You could do a Low necked chemise with full sleeves with enough length for a ruffle at the end, like a Gypsy chemise.
Most high necked chemises take 4+ yards, depending on size, that include wrist and neck bands, and enough strips to do ruffs.
What a wonderful Lord you have. He KNOWS that the way to your heart is with fabric!
You could also just make the top and sleeves of the chemise in the emb. fabric and the rest in a plain fabric where it won't show.
Looks like Hancocks also has this http://www.hancockfabrics.com/viewproduct.htm?productId=147459459 (http://www.hancockfabrics.com/viewproduct.htm?productId=147459459) that almost screams late period sleeves.
I love the high neck smock Cilean pictured, and it seems to mirror Centuries idea--it *does* scream sleeves for SURE. Can *your* Lord teach *my* Lord a thing or two about fabric??
An Italian camicia where that fabric is used for the sleeves and eventual accenting details, while the main body is kept plain... That would be smashing!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/extant/chemise1575-1600themet.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/venezia1/micheli1550s.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/venezia2/dance1565.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/venezia2/caldogno1.jpg
Congrats with a gorgeous fabric!
Thanks, all! It's fun that we're all thinking something H/A, instead of fairwear! That was absolutely my inclination, as well. At the moment I'm leaning toward high-necked (I have a vision in my head of this with a bodice of the black harlequin tapestry I just bought), altho' it will be a while, I'm sure, until I get around to it!
This is what it made me think of; even though the pattern is different.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thelostgallery/6580751837/sizes/m/in/photostream/
LOL. another high necked chemise.