What to do with a train...

[lovetriangle]

Ok, the Pfalzgräfin Dorothea Sabina von Neuburg dress from JA's PoF has a train. And I like it. I've cut my skirt with a train but the reality is that I'll be wearing this outdoors over dirt, rocks, twigs, etc. 

I've see the Holbein sketch of the Tudor dress kirtled up in the back but I've never seen anything showing later period dresses pinned up. Is there such an example out there? Or any such evidence as to what late period ladies did with their trains out of doors? I really don't want to cut the skirt straight but I will if kirtling was just not done around 1600.

Comments

[sewphisticate.livejournal.com]

I love trains in theory; in fact, however, they are the devil's spawn that follow behind you and taunt the generally lead-footed populace to tear your skirt from its moorings. Trains also fancy a rewarding career in the fast-growing field of waste management. It terrifies me even to think about the souvenirs that collect on the B side of a trained gown. It's sort of like me and long hair. I like the idea of long hair, but whenever I grow it past my ears I just pull it into a pony tail and tie it out of my face. So, if all you're going to do is tie up your train, why bother? Now if you're palnning to stand at the top of a staircase and look gorgeous as your gown cascades down the stairs, that's a whole 'nother thing entirely.

[love3angle.livejournal.com]

I am hoping for a cascading opportunity, but I can't guarantee it. I just really LIKE the way this one looks and I don't mind kirtling it as long as I can support the idea. I have NO INTENTION of actually dragging a train about that wretched lake-bottom of silt where our faire is now.

Ggggrrrrrrrr, I'll probably just end up cutting it straight like everyone else who's made this dress. harumph.

[sewphisticate.livejournal.com]

>>I'll probably just end up cutting it straight like everyone else who's made this dres
Yes, but yours will look better than everyone else's...

[love3angle.livejournal.com]

LOL! This implies I may FINISH it someday! LOL!