pick a climate, please

Note to weather gods or whoever is in charge:

Sunny 65F+ weather on Monday followed with hideous promptness by barely 30F with high winds and visibility-reducing snowfall on Tuesday is beyond ridiculous, beyond weird - it crosses over into fscking abusive. My sinuses hate you.

Pick one or the other - preferably the Monday weather - don't keep trying on new hellish weather patterns for size.

Thanks,

Me and every other living creature in the mid-Atlantic states.

(no subject)

Happy Birthday almeda!

Regency jacket workshop - brain dump

Just got back from tonight's workshop. Far more impressive and fun than I'd expected!

I thought it would mostly be lecture + slides or extant examples; what I didn't anticipate was extant examples I could get my hot little (cotton gloved) hands on (squee!)!

It's wonderful to get up close and be able to turn things over and around and look at the insides and see how it was done. Everything was sewn by hand (obviously) and the time taken to assemble and trim these pieces is awe-inspiring when I consider how long it takes me to do a single piece with a machine.

The real find: a plum velvet spencer with military/hussar-type cord/button trim, so I could see how it was applied!! I think from looking at the garment inside and out, that the spencer was assembled and lined, and THEN trimmed - running stitches from the inside tacked the cording down.

The fronts overlapped (unusual - most meet exactly in the middle), and the buttons were for decoration, as the front hooked closed.

This is tremendously useful as I've been wondering for months just HOW all that trim on the hussar jacket is applied - though this isn't the same time period or garment, now I have some idea.

Mind is ticking now, on both the hussar project AND the potentiality of many different plush, tasseled spencers to go over delicate white Regency gowns...