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nuranarMy good friend Atlanta of The Story of a Seamstress has just announced:
Basically, the object is to have a historical costume, and make a public post about it with pictures of you wearing/using it, your inspiration, and materials and construction details, all by October 3. This sounds very do-able, and rather fun! Here are the rules:
1. Your costume must be inspired by a particular source. A painting, movie, museum dress, character, book passage, etc. You may enter as many costumes as you wish.
2. It must have at least some grounding in historical fashion (Ancient times –1960s) but this can mean not only exact historical reproductions, but also fantasy costumes, modern twists, combinations of time periods – whatever you can imagine.
3. You must post one of the buttons on your blog or website if you wish to participate.
There will be a couple of awards, too. Check out Atlanta's post for more details, and the buttons to post. Wouldn't it be fun to have a big LJ contingent participating?
I'm not yet sure what I'll do. The Regency outfit is the logical choice for me; my current deadline is the Antique Elegance show on 18 September, so that works out neatly. (There's going to be a Tea Tasting!![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jenthompson described it to me and it sounds like terrific fun.)
But since there's no requirement that it be a new outfit, or even a complete outfit, I could do something else. Hmm... I never did post my finished green wrapper, although I've got lots of documentation of the inspiration and construction...
Basically, the object is to have a historical costume, and make a public post about it with pictures of you wearing/using it, your inspiration, and materials and construction details, all by October 3. This sounds very do-able, and rather fun! Here are the rules:
1. Your costume must be inspired by a particular source. A painting, movie, museum dress, character, book passage, etc. You may enter as many costumes as you wish.
2. It must have at least some grounding in historical fashion (Ancient times –1960s) but this can mean not only exact historical reproductions, but also fantasy costumes, modern twists, combinations of time periods – whatever you can imagine.
3. You must post one of the buttons on your blog or website if you wish to participate.
There will be a couple of awards, too. Check out Atlanta's post for more details, and the buttons to post. Wouldn't it be fun to have a big LJ contingent participating?
I'm not yet sure what I'll do. The Regency outfit is the logical choice for me; my current deadline is the Antique Elegance show on 18 September, so that works out neatly. (There's going to be a Tea Tasting!
jenthompson described it to me and it sounds like terrific fun.)But since there's no requirement that it be a new outfit, or even a complete outfit, I could do something else. Hmm... I never did post my finished green wrapper, although I've got lots of documentation of the inspiration and construction...
