An over one shoulder style. You'll have to take my word for it after looking at all the silly pictures, but when you're actually wearing the lot, you feel awesome!
Friday, 19 August 2011
Medieval(ish) Costume Part Eight
An over one shoulder style. You'll have to take my word for it after looking at all the silly pictures, but when you're actually wearing the lot, you feel awesome!
Medieval(ish) Costume Part Seven
A back view of the cape - just look at the shine where it catches the light!
Medieval(ish) Costume Part Six
The next layer - with a huge woolen tie for the neck, the faux fur cape. Here it is behind the shoulders.
Medieval(ish) Costume Part Five
My next idea on a sort of medieval theme was flared sleeves. Here I have something I'm very proud of - very modern fabrics in the most ridiculous sleeves. When you pull them on and have the ends at the wrists, they drape beautifully, but here they also look great just loose here, and with a satin and faux fur tie.
Medieval(ish) Costume Part Four
And now that the 'pluderhose' are straightened out a little more, here's another picture showing how the baggily lined pink behind black of the top portion echoes the red and black flared hose.
Medieval(ish) Costume Part Two
The same again, but from another angle, to be closer to the flared purple and black additions on the edge.
Medieval(ish) Costume Part One
Although looking at this now I'm about to publish it, this isn't a great photo, this is a kind of undershirt that is meant to tie very loosely across the front, and have lots of nice dangly bits. Still, the collar is nice.
Medieval Costume - Detail of Pluderhosen Part Three
How the ankle band is fixed to the flared main body of the garment with a 'donut' shaped piece.
Medieval Costume - Detail of Pluderhosen Part Two
Some of the pleating in the red material at the foot, as well as the thick black band of material that is tied to fit round the ankle.
Medieval Costume - Detail of Pluderhosen Part One
I had a thought. I thought it might be fun to make some pleated elizabethan-era 'pluderhose'. I made some, but I thought they came up too high above the knees, and, well, looked a bit silly. And I didn't want to do that... So I made three pairs, two of which I stitched together, and here they are. The top part is a very basic design, and usually includes leather lining at the front, but I cut that part, and put in some loops of wide black ribbon and some slim silver ribbon (threaded through the loops) to open and close the front, in a laced corset kind of way... I don't know if there's a technical term for that! The lower (red and black) part is a more complicated pattern that wasn't really in vogue for very long. I say in the title of this post that it is 'medieval' because it fits in with another set of clothes I made recently, so although really it's more tudor, just bear with me!
Phone Backpack Part Six
A shot of the lined inside - it fits into the curve at the top, but not into the lower flare, as it's hard enough to touch the bottom of the bag with one arm scrabbling about in there without having to go round corners. But it was still a good idea!
Phone Backpack Part Five
A shot from above so you can see the grey and white continuing across the top, as well as the zips around the edge.
Phone Backpack Part Four
A shot of the front, so you can see the button and embroidery detail. The buttons look especially wobbly in a shrunk-down photo, but they look pretty good in real life, honestly...
Phone Backpack Part Three
A shot of the back, so you can see the straps and clip that keep it in place.
Phone Backpack Part One
Here's something I'm very proud of. It looks pretty big in the photo, and it really is. This is a mobile phone bag (well, backpack really) based on motorola models from the 70s I'd seen about... They're collectable now, of course, so they're very expensive. It was because of that I decided to make my own that was bigger than everyone else's. Although I still wouldn't mind my own genuine one!
Star Skirt Part Two
Here's another angle - a side view, so you can see more of the draping between the 'arms' and the fifth point of the star at the back. Originally I'd hoped I might be able to get the arms to stand out parallel to the floor, with the draping going straight from them down, but in the end, they were just too heavy! But I don't think it looks all that bad drooping a bit... It's much more pronounced in this photo.
Star Skirt Part One
I was thinking about historical fashions the other day, and in particular, the 18th century dresses that stood out so dramatically at the sides, and the tudor skirts that stood straight out in a circle from the hips. It was with them in mind that I came up with this - and yes, it is literally made of old curtains. I had to make it very stiff, and so - stuffed it with newspaper. God, it's heavy! I call it the star skirt because from the top, it looks like a five-pointed star.
Cage Hat Part Five
The other ones that aren't quite the way I wanted them to look. Another bird, and a butterfly. The leaning is best seen from this angle!
Cage Hat Part Four
The caterpillar (who has polystyrene easter eggs for a body) and the dragonfly, who looks rather elegant.
Cage Hat Part Three
Another angle so that you can see one of the better models, the spider, and two of the less successful, the snail and the top bird with the multi-coloured wings. I was intending them all to be insects, as I said before, and it probably should've stayed that way.
Cage Hat Part Two
It has a working door for your face, look! Also, the leaning wasn't deliberate, but I think that gives it a nice feeling of surrealism.
Cage Hat Part One
This one I understandably had to photograph slightly differently, so I could get in all the different angles. It's a frame of odd (that is, without pairs) knitting needles, covered by more sinamay, and sewn together, with added pipe-cleaner and twisted wool insects. No, I'm not too sure why I thought that'd be a good idea either.
Spider Hat Part Two
Another shot of the spider hat, with me looking a bit fearsome. You can imagine, trying to position the camera so it can't be seen in the mirror, then looking in the right place and doing something interesting gets a bit tiring after a while. And since our better camera is actually pretty heavy, by the time I was getting the pictures I wanted, my wrists were aching! But still, I shouldn't have stopped smiling really!
Spider Hat Part One
It's been a while, and it's time to continue to post up clothes! As you can see, I'm still doing hats, and I've returned to the spot where I took my last pictures to tie it all together (only today, it's not as sunny as it was then). Sometimes you have to do something that's just fun, haven't you? Here I've got my spider hat (with button eyes). Originally I wanted to have it standing up on my head, on the tips of it's toes, and maybe pointing. I'll have to do that sometime when I've got better wire! It's made mostly of black sinamay, and all sewn together with fluffy black wool.
Thursday, 24 March 2011
Dreadlock Hat part three
You can see a little more of the bulk of the hat here. It's really heavy, by the way!
Dreadlock Hat part two
By the way, the dreadlocks are in black with red, purple and white - you can see them on the right there over my shoulder. Dreadlock Hat part one
Here's a crazy one (that you can't see so well from the front). I had a load of scrap material, yarn dreadlocks I made and some of those plastic scoubidou things, so I made this. I took a few pictures of this one from slightly different angles because it'd be better to see it from the side, but they're a little difficult to take on your own!
Zeppelin Hat part two
The little compartment towards the front there was a real pain. I wanted to glue it on so it would be straight to attach properly and then stitch it on so it wouldn't peel off. I didn't foresee the hours of holding it on while the glue dried. I couldn't find anything strong enough the hold it on properly!
Friday, 18 March 2011
Zeppelin Hat part one
I actually made this one a while ago, but I was trying to get a particular angle with it in the photo, and again took so many pictures that by the time I got one that I thought was ok (or more likely, 'that'll do'), I couldn't smile anymore! But if you can see past that, I thought this one was a very good idea. After I made the body of the zeppelin (the edges of this fabric shred your fingers something awful) I wasn't sure what kind of base to make for it. Maybe it would've been wiser to make the base fit well and then changed the size of the zeppelin, but as you can see, I didn't want to compromise with this one. So it ended up on a tower with four brims.
Tudor(ish) Ruff part three
More interesting angle here. I was wondering if I should do stripes with fabric paint... I decided against it in the end because I wasn't sure how it'd look finished (and I doubt I could do it tidily enough) If I get some good stripey scrap I might do another... Or fur fabric! Tudor(ish) Ruff part two
Even with a screen on my camera that moves out on an arm, I couldn't see it over my ruff, so none of the pictures I got for this one were that great. In this one my hair isn't arranged as well, but my face looks a little more interesting. Compromise?
Tudor(ish) Ruff part one
For this one I took the pattern for a Tudor ruff and scaled up the amount of material - I used a little bit more than the required length to gather up - I had intended to make it very wide and that would be enough. But then I considered - I could go around it and gather the hem for 50, 60 feet? But I could fold it over and gather it - hiding the hems and giving it more bulk, probably a better finish and... well, make it appropriately over the top for my outfits. Black and Purple 'Wig' Hat part two
Slightly better view in this one. It had to have something to finish it off at the top, so I went with the clouds in grey and white on here.Black and Purple 'Wig' Hat part one
Now this one is so monstrous and difficult to keep on properly that I have to hold it up - it won't actually fall off, but it does tend to slump a little. When you can actually see the top, there's a little black shiny tricorn (I think you can only see a corner from here). I'm going to reinforce it with some wire later.
Horned Hat
What do you do when you feel like making something and all you have in the house is a little bit of stiffened netting, some felt and stuffing? This, apparently. It's shaped like a hood at the back and is the same purple as the little 'chain' - but I put my hair in front, and I thought it looked more natural that way. I'm thinking Medusa next?Red and Black Satin Hat part three
Same again here - bit darker, but I thought it had better contrast and the red was just the right shade.
Red and Black Satin Hat part two
Aha, slightly darker, artier one here. I put my hair up for this one as you can see - I thought it made more of an impact that way. I should point out that I had to take so many pictures for this session (wrong lighting, bad composition, camera in shot) that I didn't end up smiling in any! Excuse me, please.Red and Black Satin Hat part one
Ok, it's been a while - primarily because I didn't have a good place to take pictures for ages, and I got a new camera to try and figure out the workings of. Here's the first one. Now the trouble with my hats is that when I try and take interesting pictures, particularly here in a mirror, you can't see the whole thing without the camera. The rest of it goes on down the front for about another foot(!) and is stitched together in the middle. I'll take some more pictures of the whole thing later.
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