weekend costumey goodness

[anotheranon]

After much dithering re: what I want to make with my recent windfall of fabric (A Regency gown! no, a farthingale! no, a Spanish doublet! no...) I decided to go for something quick, dirty, and fun:

I'm going to use some of the polyester burgundy brocade drapes to make the Pirates of the Carribean coat. Quick: the pattern's called "Simplicity" for a reason! Dirty: it's polyester, so it has absolutely no resemblance to any real or imagined historical pirate coat, and Fun: even though it's burgundy and not crimson, I think it could be a decent start to a "Sheba the Pirate Queen" inspired costume - whatcha think jlsjlsjls?

Besides, I spent much of the past few days taking apart 4 panels of drapes while watching movies - this hardly makes a dent in the stash and I've got to do something with it, don't I?

Photos of prior projects (namely, the partlet) forthcoming.

Comments

[hadesgirl.livejournal.com]

Oooh, oooh! Then we get to play pirates, right???? You've got the cutlass I'll wager...!

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Definitely a decent start to the Sheba thing ... if you think the colour is too far off her traditional head-to-toe crimson, you can always claim that Black Bilbo or Mad Dan Pew gallantly loaned her his coat, to protect her crew from lust-collapse, after her shirt once again got torn off by a pike during a boarding ... that kind of thing continually happens to her for some reason. ***grins and wishes VERY hard that somebody would someday make a film of that novel***

ooh! ooh!

[shemhazai.livejournal.com]

So, then you're gonna make me walk the plank, right? ;)

Really looking forward to seeing that coat! Frock coats are one of the sexiest items of clothing I've ever come across...too many pirate movies as a kid, I guess. Plus, they're usually red; always a good thing.

Thou must take pictures!