IRCC II Tasty Nibble 12 - One Sleeve Down(ish)

The gold trim is finished on the first of my hanging sleeves.





I'm kind of tried of the house being coated with bits of faux fur so I think I'll add the gold braid to the other sleeve and both shoulder treatments before I line them all.

Fear Not! I am still working!

Real life has intruded quite a bit lately but I'm taking just a moment to show you my progress on my IRCC loose gown's hanging sleeve.



And, if anyone is interested in 1880's clothing I now have boards for my inspiration for Teslacon outfits on Pinterest.

http://pinterest.com/auroralucia/

So here's the thing...

I have a picture I want to share with you from a costuming perspective but I also find it to be a very disturbing image of institutionalized violence against women.

I've been flipping back and forth about it, but today I decided that our history as humans is what it is--good an bad. That said, I found another very interesting image in that great book I have been looking at lately "El traje y Los tipos socials en El Quijote" by Carmen Bernis.

Bearing in mind that my contemporary Spanish is nearly non-existent and my archaic Spanish even worse, I gather that it is part of a series of mural paintings dating from the early 1600's from a monastery (possibly in Guadalupe), and that this particular scene portrays an incident in 1593 involving the exorcism of a courtesan.

Her clothing is interesting from a historic costumer's perspective but the whole image is so fraught with emotion and layers of meaning that I find it hard to look at.

And that would be my kind of warning regarding Adult Content Ahead

Detail

Curation milagrosa de una endemoniada, comienzos del siglo XVII
Pinturas murals del claustro del monasterio de Guadalupe


Anything I could say about her bodice/corset would only be speculative, but I note that the bottom of my hemp corded bodice behaves in just the same manner as her's is doing, and that the decorative detailing in the bands at the top and center front would be quite supportive if they were actually trapunto.

And trapunto could handle those corners...hmmmm.

IRCC II Tasty Nibble #11 - The seam-y underside of the sleeve

I thought you might like to see the pieced together madness that is my sleeve.

You'll never guess what I've been doing today...

Between bursts of cleaning the house in preparation for Mom and Bob's visit next weekend, and laundry, and reading fanfic, and catching up on some blogs, and watching episodes of Clarence's new show-to-watch "Teen Wolf," and cooking, and scouting the Internet for bloggers working on fancy dresses for Teslacon I've been...

(drumroll........)

Sewing my IRCC project!

Yep, back at work at last. :)

Today I've just been turning and finishing the edges of one of the hanging sleeves for my loose robe but it looks like I'll be ready to start putting on the gold trim soon. Maybe tonight!

The bug skirt continues

So my Clarence gave me a new iPad 3 for an anniversary present (our second) because, as he says, I needed a better camera for my blog. :)

Oh how I love that man!

I did my typical thing of waiting until after dark before deciding to take a picture. And my second usual thing of taking said picture in the totally inadequate lighting of our living room, and yet...

Well see for yourselves.

And isn't the hem on my soon to be finished bug skirt cute?

Steam punk musing continue...

I follow a lovely blog by Wilhelmina (http://wilhelminamarquart.blogspot.com/2010/10/tea-time-with-1870s.html) which is a marvelous source of pretty pictures of dresses and ladies from...well pretty much any time period which takes her fancy. The author doesn't tend to note details on her postings (rats) but the eye candy is fantastic!

I've been on the look-out for some visual sources for ideas for day dresses and I happened on the posting of this charmer

I think it has my name all over it, and I already own the perfect striped linen too.

Thank you, Wilhelmina!