What is your dream garb?

[Delireus]

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

[Kate XXXXXX]

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:



The lace will be the hard part...

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

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.

[Delireus]

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

[ArielCallista]

I did it! My Snow White Noble gown...something I had wanted to do for a very long time...



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...

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

The #1 Rule of garbing is...."Garb is always a constant work in progress."

[DonaCatalina]

Plus about 100 others.  

[Tygrkat]

Hopefully for next season

[bookwench]

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

[gem]

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:



I'm sorry that she's headless! 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

[isabelladangelo]

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.   




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!   

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

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.

[Jessi]

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.

[GirlChris]

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.

[isabelladangelo]

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!