The Pink Venetian
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This dress' story starts long ago, 5 years ago really, back to when I was a young, new costumer.
It was 2004 when I attended my first Renaissance Festival, and I was hooked. My friend said it perfectly when she described her own first trip to the Renaissance festival, she had always been a costumer, just never knew it until then. Exactly! |
My first attempt at historical costuming was my peacock blue Venetian, and looking back, I can say I've come a long way. I think 5 years from now I'll think the same thing about my work now :)
I did some Victorian sewing for a couple of years, and came back to the Renaissance in 2007 when I thought I'd be making out to the MNRF again and to take part in the Pink Venetian party that was happening at Costume College that year. Though I didn't make it to CosCol that year, I made the dress in spirit of it.
So far, this dress has had alot of reworking and I plan on doing more.
I did some Victorian sewing for a couple of years, and came back to the Renaissance in 2007 when I thought I'd be making out to the MNRF again and to take part in the Pink Venetian party that was happening at Costume College that year. Though I didn't make it to CosCol that year, I made the dress in spirit of it.
So far, this dress has had alot of reworking and I plan on doing more.
Here is a picture of the first wearing of this dress....You can see some issues here:
1. The straps are slipping. This is due to a lack of experience (at mocking up) in making my own patterns. 2. the bodice is BIG here, making the V opening small. This is not ideal for my tastes. 3.No Sleeves 4. What sort of camica is that? It's not, it's a chemise that I bought at Ren Fest a few years before and was forced to wear it because my camicia wasn't yet finished! The next time I wore this dress was the Northstar VSA's Masquerade Ball. |
I took the dress in and made a pair of gold sleeves...this was my first pair of sleeves...so I didn't know where the proper placement for the loops was and because I was in a rush sewing the loops in the car on the way over (with someone else driving :P) I had to wear them wonky.
The 1st picture is from the first day of MNRF 2009. In this picture, you can see that I've added trim to the front opening. I did this to mask the fact that it was the trim strap that corrected the strap slipping issue. This isn't intended to be a permanent fix, just a quick attractive fix so that I could wear the dress for fest.
The 1st picture is from the first day of MNRF 2009. In this picture, you can see that I've added trim to the front opening. I did this to mask the fact that it was the trim strap that corrected the strap slipping issue. This isn't intended to be a permanent fix, just a quick attractive fix so that I could wear the dress for fest.