watch out, she's at it again...
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Yes, only one week back from Costume Con and I'm already plotting the next Big Project!
This time it's one I've been toying with for years, but never thought I had the talent to even try: stage costume/historic variation hussar's jacket (as modeled by '80's pop star Adam Ant, always a snappy dresser). I was an Ants fan like crazy as a teenager, and have lusted after the wardrobe just as long. Now that "Pirates of the Caribbean" has made the eclectically sashed, heavily eyelinered look trendy again I figure, now or never!
I found I already had a candidate pattern in my collection, so I traced this off for manipulation. It is neatly folded away in it's plastic bag, pending the next step.
Research: The Adam-Ant.net galleries showed nothing in the way of a back view, and even in the videos he doesn't stay turned around long enough to see detail. So, I've spent the past couple of evenings Googling for "hussar jacket", "hussar pelisse" and similar. Results: I think I've narrowed down the braiding pattern I'm looking for as belonging to an 11th hussar dolman from 1854 (scroll down to "dress and frock tunics").
Next step: going to check the local community college library over the weekend for books on military uniforms and see if I can get more detail. Who knows, there are so many variations on the braid color and arrangement, I might end up making something rather new. Or not.
I am quite determined to take my time on this - I'm not on a deadline and it will be awhile before I can get materials even if I came up with a fully-realized pattern tomorrow.
dressdiariesYes, only one week back from Costume Con and I'm already plotting the next Big Project!
This time it's one I've been toying with for years, but never thought I had the talent to even try: stage costume/historic variation hussar's jacket (as modeled by '80's pop star Adam Ant, always a snappy dresser). I was an Ants fan like crazy as a teenager, and have lusted after the wardrobe just as long. Now that "Pirates of the Caribbean" has made the eclectically sashed, heavily eyelinered look trendy again I figure, now or never!
I found I already had a candidate pattern in my collection, so I traced this off for manipulation. It is neatly folded away in it's plastic bag, pending the next step.
Research: The Adam-Ant.net galleries showed nothing in the way of a back view, and even in the videos he doesn't stay turned around long enough to see detail. So, I've spent the past couple of evenings Googling for "hussar jacket", "hussar pelisse" and similar. Results: I think I've narrowed down the braiding pattern I'm looking for as belonging to an 11th hussar dolman from 1854 (scroll down to "dress and frock tunics").
Next step: going to check the local community college library over the weekend for books on military uniforms and see if I can get more detail. Who knows, there are so many variations on the braid color and arrangement, I might end up making something rather new. Or not.
I am quite determined to take my time on this - I'm not on a deadline and it will be awhile before I can get materials even if I came up with a fully-realized pattern tomorrow.
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Date: 2004-04-14 07:19 am (UTC)Yes, I am the Research Queen. :)
I believe the jacket was an actual costume from the movie, not just a replica so it would be IDENTICAL.
I didn't realise he was so bizarre so early on. It seemed like it was really apparent in the last 10 yrs or so but I wrote that off as just what happens to someone when they're a huge success and then their career (sadly) dwindles down into nothing.
I know he was a jerk even when he was a big deal - a friend of mine had problems with him when she and her friend went to see a few shows and he got angry at her for not wanting to sleep with him back in the mid-80s. :-p
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Date: 2004-04-14 03:15 pm (UTC)Interesting. Wonder how he (or more likely, Malcolm McLaren/Vivienne Westwood) scored that?
I didn't realise he was so bizarre so early on. It seemed like it was really apparent in the last 10 yrs or so but I wrote that off as just what happens to someone when they're a huge success and then their career (sadly) dwindles down into nothing.
Could be - I imagine it must suck to be at the foot of the pedestal you once stood on! Re: mid-80's jerkiness - that sounds horribly tacky, but I cynically think that most pop stars at the height of their "poppiness" probably have similarly inflated opinions of their bedroom prowess :P