As this is hopefully the last months I'll be spending in my cursed birth country, I'm trying to focus on the important things like figuring out the practicalities of moving and job searching...So naturally this weekend ended up looking like this in my mind:
This is one of the most fun things I've ever mind-created! It's been there for some time and I've now decided it will be one of the two things I want to finish before moving. (Actually..the two are kind of connected..but more on that later)
This is a very free creation..I had trouble deciding if I was going to lean it more towards the 17th or the 18th century, but since I'm sort of slumming it now again it's probably going to be quite hard to determine a precise era. The skirt so far is very 18th century with the pale stripyness and side fastenings, and the stays are early rococo (see how I managed to squeeze that word in too), but over all the colours will point it more towards the 17th century. I'm not a big fan of the pastelly lameness of the rococo..I just want some freakin' dramatic colours and gold! throw in a birds wing for all I care! you know..is that too much to ask?Anyway.. last but not least, there will most defensibly be a hood attached! I think I will call this my Highway-woman outfit.
Now I'm off to cut out fabric on a badly lit floorspace (slumming it appeals to me in that way). Leaving you with an appropriate Horrible Histories song:
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