What to do with a train...
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lovetriangleOk, 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.
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.
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Date: 2007-01-19 12:35 am (UTC)I'm still trying to figure out how someone would step on a gown that was kirtled
You and me both. I thought she'd be fine with the train kirtled up, but all I know is that Katie came running over to me clutching her skirt which was completely ripped out of the bodice, seething that someone had stomped on the skirt somehow while she was dancing. And I have yet to reattach the skirt, because it's just so disheartening to see all that hard work gone because some idiot can't keep track of his own feet in relation to a long skirt.
And he didn't even apologize! ::sigh::
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Date: 2007-01-19 02:24 am (UTC)But alas, I think Realm of Venus has just cemented my need for the train. ... now if only I could find a little boy...
"some idiot can't keep track of his own feet in relation to a long skirt. And he didn't even apologize! ::sigh::"
oh. my. god. Did she slap him? Anything? How could someone obviously damage someone else's property THAT badly and not bother to say sorry?!?!? I am astonished! But not surprised that he can't keep track of his feet. So few men nowadays can, as I learn teh hard way every single time I costume an opera that involves hoops, trains, togas, you name it...