Adam Ant/Hussar jacket: progress report

(x-posted to dressdiaries)

I've been doing what I promised myself I'd do - taking it slow and doing research. There's next to nothing out there about the 11th Hussars in particular, so I've been looking at books on military fashion in general and hussar uniform in particular - a trip to the local community college yielded some heavily illustrated books that I've been going through carefully, looking up every indexed reference to "hussar" from the index of each book and taking handwritten notes the likes of which I've not done since college :P

( hussars )

( some history of Adam's jacket )

( brainstorming )

Next step - finding how/where all that damned braid was attached!

randomness

Not sure what's been slipped into my coffee all week, but I sure am having the strangest dreams:

( Siouxsie, Budgie, and Claudia Black on a fencing piste... )

So, that's pretty pear shaped right there :P

Other stuff: got my hair cut today. I've been doing the same thing for awhile, and haven't streaked with pretty colors since last fall because I've done most of the ones I like - until today. Picked up a bottle of Special Effects Fishbowl at the hairdresser's; now it's just a question of having time/guts to bleach my own hair again.

It's just as well that I'll have to wait because my skin is red and irritated ( gory details )

. Probably best to wait until I heal up.

Random news thingy - found out a year late that the reproduction Amber Room was completed. It's a mystery what happened to the original, and quite tempting to hope that it's still packed away somewhere in Germany..

That's about all I've got for tonight.