tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62812018204811855292024-03-05T15:26:37.081-08:00Lady CarolynHeader picture courtesy of V. RodriguezLady Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04523556570912592956noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6281201820481185529.post-73779799612735541502013-01-03T06:49:00.000-08:002013-01-03T07:18:02.840-08:00The Story - AGAIN (said in whiney voice) and New Hobby<span style="font-size: large;">I've taken up a new hobby, watercolor painting. I have messed the last year with a little journal, drawing and adding some color. I decided to take a class in mid November. Now I'm hearing the words "<em><strong>the Story</strong></em>" again and again in the<strong> </strong>painting world. I hear "the story" in reenactment, in NAI, in church, but<em> <strong>painting</strong></em>? I remember when I took some art classes eons ago the important word when creating a painting was composition, now it's"the story". A painting should draw your eye in, wonder around and tell a<strong><em> story</em></strong>. It seems <em>composition </em>and <em>the story</em> are almost interchangeable. Do a search on YouTube for painting compositions and you'll see what I mean. So here are some paintings that tell "<strong>stories</strong>". Love this stuff!!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"After the Ball", Henri Gervex</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"An Interesting Letter", Julius LeBlanc Stewart</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"La Place de la Trinite", Victor Gabriel Gilbert</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some I'm hoping someday I'll be good enough to tell a story with a painting. Right now, like all storying telling, I'm in the<strong> practice, practice, practice</strong><em> </em>part. Here is a painting that I did six times and still need to work on highlights and shading and waves and..... well <strong>practice!</strong></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">following a tutorial off of a YouTube video - "the story" wonder where these two people are going?</td></tr>
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As I wrote the above title it reminds me of postings on eBay, "Victorian, Wedding, Goth, Steam, pin up look alike" they cover every angle to get you to "look". However bare with me and see how this bonnet works for both. Originally I made the bonnet to go with an early 1860's gown<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me, 3rd one from this end - side profile of bonnet</td></tr>
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Pictures of bonnet and the book I received inspiration from.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another dress I made that I liked the bonnet with. The bonnet is a later date than the dress. I have since made a bonnet to go with the time period of the dress -- but liked the colors</td></tr>
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Now for the Regency look. I did not like the bonnet I had to go with my Regency gown. I was bemoaning the fact to my daughter. I had the above bonnet out on the table. I liked the way it went with my down & dirty brown Spencer I had made using American Duchess tutorial but wrong, wrong, wrong time period. My daughter picked it up and plopped it down on my head like a muffin cap, tied the ties in back, tucked the tails up in the bonnet and voila a Regency bonnet.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cunnington's book - style reminds me on the one I repurposed :)</td></tr>
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The Regency Gown</h2>
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The gown was made several years ago. I used several gowns as reference to get the V neck however I did get the neck a little wide so I fill it in with a kerchief. Although I've noticed on several fashion plates they seem to bare a little more than I am comfortable doing. I choose the V neck over the typical Regency rounded neck, puffed sleeve look. I feel I'm too old for puffed sleeves and wanted a neck a little more flattering to me. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May be more a "scarf" type ruffle - but liked the look</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Slight V</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This one a little earlier time period - but liked the V</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#'s 10, 16, 19 all have V necks</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a riding habit - said was embroidery, but liked the V neck look<br />
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So now you see where the V neck came from, the rest of the dress I used left over scraps of material. Again I complied the sleeves and bottom from several fashion plates to get the Rengency look.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back of dress with another bonnet I made, which I love but sometimes it's too bulky to pack, especially on a cruise.</td></tr>
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This past October I went back "home", home being the renaissance guild of The House of Swindon. It's been a long time since I have been able to play, however "play" is a misnomer as we are a histoic guild and expected to work. We are the household of the Rutland family, living in Queen Elizabeth I's time period. The Dowager Duchess of Rutland, Bridget Manners, is on the prowl for a new husband and the newly widowed Francis Russell, Earl of Bedford is enticing. <br />
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If you want to hone your skills to work with the public find a good historic guild and learn how to gig or improv. Work with the others in the guild and build your character as the public watches and asks questions. There are guilds out there who mostly "play" and then there are guilds that base their characters on history. Do your research on each guild, interview them, go and see how they work together in the guild yard in front of the pavilion and in back where the public is not allowed, go tho their meetings. Find one that fits you, join, have fun and learn history!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Left, Ashley Deering, also my step-Granddaugher, Elizabeth Manners, Center, Moi, Dowager Duchess of Rutland, Right, Erika Jahn, Ladies maid to my step daughter-in-law</td></tr>
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Lady Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04523556570912592956noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6281201820481185529.post-50612996673526884232012-10-29T17:20:00.001-07:002012-10-29T17:20:44.753-07:00Reliving the 1950's & 60's, Comfort Clothing!I was recently asked by a friend to recreate her grandmother's apron. She wanted a unique gift for her sister's birthday. Maybe it's me being nostalgic as I turn the years over, but it seems several people my age and the age of my daughter long for the good old days. There is resurgence in knitting, crocheting, planting gardens, canning and having "comfort clothing" in our life. By comfort clothing I'm talking about a phenomena that is similar to the cliche "comfort food", we are all familar with that phrase. But "comfort clothing" is that connection to the past and several sites, pattern companies and craft companies have aprons such as our grandmothers wore. <br />
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I love it when I put on this type of apron. I wipe my wet hands on the apron, not jeans, I stuff pins and pens, rubber bands from the paper, penny off the floor into the apron pocket, not jeans. I feel this pull to past memories of my mom and grandmother doing the same type of activities, I'm at peace, my life is full, I'm wearing jeans, tee-shirt, flip-flops, and an apron. As long as I don't have the housedress with my hose rolled down around my ankles like grandma I'm a housewife fashionista.Lady Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04523556570912592956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6281201820481185529.post-12057759575001121692012-10-24T08:17:00.000-07:002012-10-24T08:17:40.110-07:00Little More on Travels and Sewing FindsBack on hubby's computer to pull off a couple of pictures of the cruise. I did download pictures on to the computer as we went along the trip. Unfortunately I dropped the camera,trying to get it out of my cute little purse that matched my ensemble for dinner. Note to self, DO NOT try and handle camera with gloves on. This was an expensive trip for equipment: computer crashes before leaving, left my Kindle on plane, drop camera and break it. <br />
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But while in Portugal walking down a back twisty, curvy street I came upon a small fabric and trim shop. In the window they had a set up for bobbin lace. Large language barrier, I speak no Portuguese and they spoke little English, but apparently in Portugal the practice of bobbin lace is still being done on this colorful bobbin pillow. This art form made me think of Jo Graden in the states who makes beautiful bobbin lace.<br />
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When we returned to Southampton, England, we traveled up to Bath for the afternoon and met Lyze Lynch and her mother, Donna, for tea. The Jane Austen Festival was concluding that weekend. Unfortunately we not able to attend the other festivities but was able to absorb the flavor of Bath and the Jane Austen House.<br />
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There is a chain store in England called Allsaints, they decorate each store with antique sewing machines. This is ONE store! A little gal working there said she thought there was about 200 in this store. The seamstress siren was calling out to me!<br />
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Lady Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04523556570912592956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6281201820481185529.post-518493904714597942012-10-22T07:22:00.000-07:002012-10-22T07:23:01.026-07:00ARRRGG Technology, Cruise and LifeUpload, download, copy, upload, download, download, upload and me on overload or make that overwhelming - My life 36 hours before the cruise and after the cruise. Right before leaving on cruise, 36 hours to be precise my computer crashed. It would open files but Windows Office was gone, so no PowerPoint. Guess what I need on cruise to run presentations, yep you got it PowerPoint. My files were saved on flash drives and the big computer in the sky. Thank goodness I could use hubby's bigger bulky laptop, no complaining though, I had a computer to take with me! Then after I'm home a couple of weeks I get my computer back and the power cord is not charging unless I push it in reallllllly hard. Bless the invention of duck tape!!! Now to get caught up on some posting.<br />
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A couple of comments on the cruise. We left Southampton, traveled to France, Spain, Portugal, back to Southampton. We then spent a few days in England. What I enjoy the most and others who travel with me is the depth of history in Europe. I mean a lowly Wool House in Southampton is older than the discovery of the Americas. In the Reno area our oldest building is from the mid-1800's. But that Wool house or English wool had such an impact on fashion, costuming and history, all things near and dear to my heart!! To the interpreters of history, what a Story, the impact of sheep on fashion! One of my presentations was "Textiles and Fashionistas through History, Broad Edification of Portraits, 900-1800's" This Wool House went so well with my presentation I put it into the presentation.<br />
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Lady Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04523556570912592956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6281201820481185529.post-19653062269931072742012-08-30T06:40:00.001-07:002012-08-30T06:48:21.855-07:00Cheerio! We're Off to England! Cruising and Jane Austen Festival<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Next week Cody and I board the Constellation in Southampton. After a marathon of sewing new ensembles, repairing a couple of older costumes, new power point presentations and getting clothes ready, I'm coming up for air. </div>
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As most of you know on board ship, I always dress in a costume of the era I'm doing the presentation. On the last cruise with Lauren,<span style="color: blue;"> </span><a href="http://americanduchess.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">American Duchess</span></a>, we dressed, translate to dressed in Costumes or Vintage, every night for dinner. Not only did we have fun, but the other passengers seemed to enjoy our clothing as well. Of course Lauren is about 35yrs younger, that may have had something to do with everyone's enjoyment, she was beautiful and classy. We enjoyed ourselves so much I'm doing the same thing this cruise, but this time I've got a 22 yr old male (son) with me dressing in costume. </div>
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Dressing in Vintage takes less room and weight in the suitcase. While I was at Costume College a month ago, I bought a couple of patterns from <a href="http://www.decadesofstyle.com/vintage-patterns-1940s/4004-1940s-empire-waist-trousers"><span style="color: blue;">Decades of Style</span></a><span style="color: blue;">.</span> I had made her Sweetheart Coveralls for the last cruise. For this cruise I made the Katharine Hepburn Trousers. I will pair these trousers with a couple of 1940's blouses that I have, put the sides of my hair in Victory Rolls and voila - 1940's revisited.</div>
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Earlier in the month I made a new 1838 costume for the interpretation of Ellen Coolidge's 1838 travels in England. This dress is posted in an earlier blog on<span style="color: blue;"> </span><a href="http://ladycarolyn.blogspot.com/2012/08/interpreting-ellen-coolidge-requires.html"><span style="color: blue;">Ellen Coolidge's dress.</span></a></div>
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After the cruise we will travel to Bath for the day and partake of the festivities at the Jane Austen Festival. On Friday we will meet Lyzee Lynch, <a href="http://themendedsoul.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: blue;">The Mended Soul</span></a><span style="color: blue;">,</span> and her mother for tea at the Festival. </div>
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I loved going to Costume College, in LA the first weekend in August. Wonderful costumes from historically accurate to fantasy. But as historically accurate as some of the costumes were we cannot be 100% accurate. Our own experiences will color our interpretation of the past. As a Certified Interpretive Guide I find those outside of NAI like Jennifer Rosbrugh, who wrote a article on this subject refreshing. Her article in<span style="color: blue;"> </span><a href="http://historicalsewing.com/why-you-cant-be-100-historically-accurate"><span style="color: blue;">Historical Sewing</span></a> hits the proverbial nail on the head. <br />
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<br />Lady Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04523556570912592956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6281201820481185529.post-75533422031007612882012-08-13T09:56:00.000-07:002012-08-13T09:56:41.598-07:00Interpreting Ellen Coolidge Requires New EnsembleOn September 5 I leave for a 11 day cruise, out of Southampton, then to France, Spain, and Portugal. I have three presentations on this cruise. One of the presentations I thought the passengers might enjoy is the journals of Ellen Coolidge. She was the granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson. Most of her growing up years was living at Monticello, she and her siblings were partly schooled by Thomas Jefferson.<br />
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I thought the passengers would enjoy seeing London through her eyes, a new monarch, British culture, the <span style="background-color: white;">architecture </span>and meeting the Lions of the day. She writes in a witty, humorous and sometimes catty style. Wonder if her writing style is a result of Thomas Jefferson?<br />
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But, alas, I have no 1838 costume. Nor do I have anything remotely near an 1838 costume I could tweak. So back from Costume College last Monday, Tuesday down to the Dungeon and chain myself to the sewing machine. Here is the result of the past week.<br />
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Lady Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04523556570912592956noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6281201820481185529.post-23190771833331499312012-08-12T19:47:00.001-07:002012-08-13T06:01:37.513-07:00Costume College 2012Most of July was a frenzy of sewing, mending, putting together outfits for Costume College. Sure it's an awesome opportunity to attend top quality classes, learn great tips, gold nuggets of information on how to do it better, faster and neater. BUT it's COSTUME College and what better place to wear and see some of the most fantastic ensembles. <br />
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Eight of us from Nevada went to LA for Costume College. For Gala on Saturday night we all decided to wear Nevada colors, silver and blue plus carry a little Nevada Flag. Here are a couple of pictures from the Gala where we walked down the red carpet,<br />
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There are several albums on Lady Carolyn's facebook. Friday night was the<span style="color: blue;"> </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn#!/media/set/?set=a.354458451291400.75130.200736893330224&type=3"><span style="color: blue;">Pool Party</span></a> which was a vintage, Hollywood Glam party. Friday evening the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn#!/media/set/?set=a.354459941291251.75131.200736893330224&type=3">Ice Cream Soci</a>al. Saturday evening, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn#!/media/set/?set=a.354515631285682.75156.200736893330224&type=3"><span style="color: blue;">Gala</span></a> and Sunday afternoon the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.354528487951063.75161.200736893330224&type=1"><span style="color: blue;">Tea,</span></a> someone said I looked like Mamie Eisenhower<br />
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I also taught two classes. A demo on <em>Undressing the Victorian Lady</em> and a presentation/Chautauqua on <em>Honoring the Titanic and Margaret Brown. </em>Lady Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04523556570912592956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6281201820481185529.post-11617969982589060392012-07-24T11:38:00.000-07:002012-07-24T11:38:15.559-07:00Robe? Coat?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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A few months ago I received this from a friend. Not sure what the maker intended it to be. They never finished it, but they had put in several hours of work. It still a few places where there is no decorative stitches. They never got around to finishing the edge or sleeve edge. It looks like some of the materials may be from the 1940's or 1930's. Any thoughts appreciated on this item.<br />
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I'm thinking about putting a binding around the edge and put a 1950's slip under it and wear it to Sunday Undies at Costume College as a robe. It is cute on, it is form fitting through the waist then flares out.<br />
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I wonder if several years down the road someone will find an unfinished project of mine and wonder "what the heck did she have in mind for this"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back Top Neck - you can see how it has unfinished edges and even the basting stitch in this part</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A few of some of the decorative stitches.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A few of the materials are starting to shred. It looks like some of these materials are from the 1940's. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bottom edge unfinished.<br />
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I was looking through my files for some pictures of Louise Mackay's home in England for a presentation tomorrow and ran across these pictures of Chatsworth. They had clothing on display from movies when we visited there. For the life of me I can't remember which movie! Thought you might enjoy seeing them.<br />
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In June I had the opportunity to participate in the event called <em>Nada Dada Motel</em>. Artist from around the city rented rooms from three hotels to display their art, June 14-17. I worked with three other artists and for a lack of a better word we termed ourselves, costume artists. We, Killbuck, Mary Crawley, and Geoffrey Nelson joined our different creative abilities together and created a space that was a smash hit. Killbuck and Mary was mostly Steampunk, Geoffrey mostly burning man and I, historical.<br />
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This was interpretation on a whole new level for me, but this is interpretation at the core of costuming, personification, transformation. <br />
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I so agree with what Killbuck wrote about our theme that I copied it here from <a href="http://www.apokiliptika.com/kostoomarts_nada2012_room_costume.htm">Room of Costume</a><br />
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<em><span style="color: blue;"><b> “Fashion is conformative- Costume is
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><em><span style="color: blue;">At the moment the first ancient
shaman wrapped an animal hide around his body to emulate the spirit of the
animal, costume was born. Differentiated from functional protective clothing or
fashion, costume is set apart by the essential role it plays in art, theater,
entertainment, community and spirituality. Not associated with trend or
aspired-to social conformity, costume is timeless and
non-conformist.</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><em><span style="color: blue;">Deeply associated with creative
activities and contexts, costume changes the wearer in ways fashion cannot.
Costume transforms us into real, mythical or popular culture characters; it
changes our personality; it frees us to act out, and encourages the viewer to
act along. </span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><em><span style="color: blue;">Costume often employs materials,
methods and techniques of master artists and artisans with meticulous detail,
ingenious structural design, incongruous textures, rich colors and forms.
Costume artists often expand their traditional needle and thread with hammers,
drills, rivets and heat guns. Cloth, leather and traditional materials are often
augmented with non-traditional ingredients like plastics, metals, expanding foam
or heat forming polymers. </span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><em><span style="color: blue;">Costume artists may create intricate
re-creations of historic costumes of the past, or ignore historic reality and
create costumes that previously only existed in the artist’s imagination. In
the case of the Steampunk genre, costume artists create their visions of
Victorian science fiction-alternate futurism by blending elegant Victorian
foundations with the trappings and equipment required in an imaginary today,
where the transistor was never invented, and civilization is still powered by
steam. In this case, past fashion influences costume and the costume influences
modern fashion. Similar circles can be seen in the costume culture evolving out
of the annual Burning Man Project. </span></em></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">As it has been for centuries and
will be for centuries more, the art of costume is the dress of the special
event, the special circumstance, performance, ceremony or ritual. From Mardi
Gras to masquerade ball, Comic-Cons to Ren-faires, theater footlight to Burning
Man, costume is an integral art, and a part of the culture that makes us
human.</span></span></em></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">A few pictures of our "room" at the Wildflower Villiage Motel.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The view entering in the door</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coming in the door</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love the ceiling and walls of our "tent", it gave it a real Steampunk feel.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Killbucks creations</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Mary's
creations. She does the most amazing Steampunk Chatelaines. Mary was explaining
the original use of the Chatelaines and one patron summed it up when Mary
finish by saying "oh I see, it's a Victorian utility knife". I do
have a few of my Steampunk creations in Mary's room as they didn't
"fit" in the historical room. My creations are the winged backpack,
hat with wings and boots with wings. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Geoffery is an award winning photographer of Burning Man Costumes, plus he has created a few himself.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The sign as you enter around the corner from the "tent" and across from Geoffrey's protraits</td></tr>
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On May 5, Lauren Reeser, American Duchess and I set sail from San Diego to Vancouver on an eight day cruise. As most of you know I speak on cruise ships. When doing the presentations aboard I always dress in a costume of the era of the presentation, this is my way of interpreting the era for folks to enjoy. All my talks are history based about the area we are traveling through or the next port. So if there are three sea days, there are three costumes plus two formal nights on a seven day cruise. HOWEVER the Duchess wants to dress everyday we are cruising. I'm game, I know how the passengers love the costumes. So two formal gowns and eight other costumes, all accessories, one pair jeans (besides ones I wore down), five tops and --- I'm ready! All this took one suitcase, one footlocker and one carry on.<br />
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First rattle out of the box we ran into an issue getting Lauren on the ship. Thank goodness my Boarding Letter was correct, but the ship's manifest had her as .....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I would have claimed her as my daughter to get her on board, but her ID did not match!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lauren gave me pointers, tips etc for painting and drawing. She had me do little projects to practice throughout the cruise. It's been ages since I have picked up a paint brush or pencil. Private lessons, Whoot!! I love the ideal of a travel journal.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1915's getting ready to say something - look too serious and boring in this pic, but the outfit is nice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Formal night, 1912's</span><br />
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Now the problem, I needed to make another bonnet for a Regency gown for the next cruise. I have a bonnet I like that goes with the Regency gown that I made several years ago, however it is much larger, takes up more room in my trunk and I needed something smaller, something easier to pack but I was fast running out of time. Maridy my daughter was here, and I had the bonnet with the Regency gown and the cheater Spencer. The cheater Spencer is via <a href="http://americanduchess.blogspot.com/2012/04/v102-quick-n-dirty-regency-spencer.html"><span style="color: blue;">American Duchess</span></a>. Lauren is going with me on this cruise and I thought a Spencer with this bonnet would be great color scheme, however wrong time period for bonnet. I was hemming and hawing, do I make another bonnet? when? I kept thinking no will know on the cruise that it is not exactly the right bonnet - but I would know and that just bothers me. I'm sorta a stickler for the right silhouette. Then my daughter took the 1850's bonnet and plopped down on my head, put the ties in the back and Voila - Regency! Thanks Mar!</div>
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It seems there will be around 25 joining us for tea. Getting excited to share a cup of tea, laughter and seeing some old friends and meet some new friends.<br />
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I had a wonderful opportunity to model at the Nevada Museum of Art. I love doing the whole interpretative "look". To me it is not just the costume and then setting or standing pretty, it's about the whole picture. I had two props, a parasol or a deck of period cards. I went with the cards. It would be very appropriate for a Lady of this time period to be enjoying a game of cards in the later 1700's.</div>
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Interpreting information on the 1920's was "absolutely the berries", especially since I asked Lauren Reeser from<span style="color: blue;"> </span><a href="http://americanduchess.blogspot.com/2012/03/v90-1920s-fashion-presentation-at.html"><span style="color: blue;">American Duchess</span></a> to co-host this event. I knew Lauren has a few 20's fashions and I have a few, put those together and we had a presentation, <em>The Bee's Knees and the Cat's Meow, Fashionistas 1920's Style.</em> Along with the presentation on Thursday we went back on Saturday for a skit - total improv- of camping in Yosemite in 1927. <br />
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In March I was asked to speak at the American Sewing Guild here in Reno. They specifically wanted to know how a costumer creates a costume. So I took the power point, a tub of "stuff" a couple of costumes and my latest project down and shared information. Fantastic group, young to well very mature ladies. Projects are anything to do with sewing. One lady is working on a Titanic using patterns from Vintage Pattern Lending Library - I'm hoping and she's hoping to join us for our Titanic Tea on the 14th. The next day I received this lovely email from Claire Blurton<br />
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<em>Carolyn: I spoke to you at the ASG meeting about some egret feathers I have that my mother brought back from France in 1918 when she came to America with the US Army Nurses after WWI . I found them and a couple of other items you might be able to use in your historical costumes that you teach history with. Please contact me </em><em>so you can come to see if they would be of any use to you. Claire </em><br />
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My fingers flew in writing a response back to her. Along with the feathers she gave me <em><u>beautiful </u></em> netted scarf from her mother and a lamb collar. I was also fortunate to get a picture of Claire's mother, Florence B Myers in her nurse uniform. I'm thinking of using these feathers on a Regency Turban on the next cruise in May.Lady Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04523556570912592956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6281201820481185529.post-23024744165456717242012-04-01T16:10:00.000-07:002012-04-01T16:10:05.988-07:00BTS - that means Blue Thong Society<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What a hoot! I was invited to speak to the Blue Thong Society - Mountain Divas earlier this month. This group met at the Lake Mansion, appetizers, dinner, desert and plenty of wine. This group is a slightly younger version of the Red Hat Society. If looking for a group energetic women and a good time contact:<br />
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Are you in need of 18th century shoes? Lauren at<span style="color: blue;"> </span><a href="http://americanduchess.blogspot.com/2012/03/v65-kensington-pre-sale-now-open-and.html"><span style="color: blue;">American Duchess</span></a> is now selling her Kensingston at a great price for $99.00 in pre-order! Take a look at these and her other historically accurate shoes at<span style="color: blue;"> </span><a href="http://americanduchess.blogspot.com/2012/03/v65-kensington-pre-sale-now-open-and.html"><span style="color: blue;">American Duchess</span></a> !! Mines on order already, I'm lovin that red which means I have to make an outfit to go with them. I should be receiving my Edwardian ones soon! Happy dancing feet here!Lady Carolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04523556570912592956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6281201820481185529.post-54540060990916401762012-03-04T19:27:00.001-08:002012-03-04T19:32:22.024-08:00Keeping the Girls in Their Place in Edwardian Times<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I was doing research on another subject and ran across there two ads in a 1908 Sear & Roebuck Catalogue. I had to chuckle at the descriptions "confining the bust with no pressure to its proper place" and "holding the flesh and and shoulder blades in place" and this is worn <em>on top</em> of the corset!</div>
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Do you need something to bring out the graceful lines of the figure? Then this item is for you! Beading around the neck and armholes sounds uncomfortable to me. Your cost in today's money $47.44<br />
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