Nieske's Formal Outfit

[janestarz]

Well, it's done. It's huge. It's bulky. It reminds me of Polish costumes. It's got an RH pattern worked into it. And here are the pictures.

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A close-up and teaser. Hey look, a silly little hat!

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The inspiration for this costume came from Star Wars. I had the perfect fabric for the outermost layer: 2 meters of upholstery fabric with leaves.

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The bottom layer. It's my favourite pants pattern! This is a Burda pattern from the Burda magazine. All I did to it was to lengthen the legs by ten centimeters. And subsequently cut five of them off again when hemming.
The outer seam holds machine embroidery, as do the pocket brims.
The pants are from a lovely chocolate stretch cotton that was quite thick. At some points I was sewing six layers of the stuff, and my sewing machine chomped happily through it! I love my Pfaff!

The top is from a jersey tricot we bought on the Easter clothmarket in the middle of the best snow ever! Too bad it melted. The pattern is an adaptation of a Knipmode summer wrapdress. I added the kimono-like belt, that wraps around and ties in front. NoKey loves this top, so I guess I'll have to make the original dress too. I still have some lovely maple-printed tricot lying around from last summer...

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The middle layer. Brown linen, with splits in mid-back and the sides. At all splits and at the neckline I used a zig-zag stitch really tightly together in a pale camel colour, outlining that with a regular straigth stitch. It's hard to describe, but it was a lot of work. And it adds a bit to the layer.
On the sleeves is a 15cm band of the leaves fabric. I will talk about the hood later.

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The outfit in full glory. It's quite bulky, but that's alright. The belt is 2 layers of herringbone cotton with brown linen on the outside. I stitched vertical channels to keep everything together. I'm not sure about the relief the inner layers create (front has another 2 layers of herringbone in it, and that's what's causing the bulging).
The silhouette reminds me of Polish costume.

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And now for the Hood:



I love this picture, I'm not sure why.
The coif is from the Reconstructing History 102 pattern. I love them! They fit perfectly, and are very comfortable. I have no fear of it falling off, if not for the veil.
The coif is lined with brown linen.

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Coif with the veil. The veil is brown linen lined with the same polyester crap I used to line the leaves-coat with. It drapes better that way.
There is a small tunnel in the veil, where I insert a store-bought diadem to save me the trouble of using millinery wire or some such.

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Perfectly plausible, if you ask me!


Many thanks go to:
Kass from Reconstructing History for making a kick-ass coif pattern!
Sarah Lorraine Goodman for her article on "The perfectly plausable French Hood"
Maggie from Padawan's Guide for hosting all inspiring images from Star Wars.
NoKey for being patient and tugging bits that didn't want to stay put for the pictures.

Comments

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

Thanks Oz!
How fares it with you these days?

[sna.livejournal.com]

I like the look it has with the addition of the cincher. Very nice! The multiple color-scheme in all the layers helps a great deal, too, and it is still practical while formal.

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

The colour scheme is Death By Chocolate, if you ask me. It was very hard to find a colour matching the leaves, but once I had the brown linen, the rest was a walk in the park. For the bottom layer I had first thought to have bought a cotton, but it turned out to be the hideous Polyester Of Doom. I didn't want it on my skin, so we had to search for a replacement. Luckily I found two fabrics with the right colour. One was a cotton, jeans-weight (so not very suitable) and the other was this jersey. It was € 10,- per meter, but I used all 1,5 meters wisely.

[watzalikzeggen.livejournal.com]

Ik vind de kleurencombinatie en stoffen echt ontzettend mooi, vooral met de laarzen erbij! Grappig dat een kostuum uit Star Wars met andere stoffen ineens bijna een historische uitstraling krijgt!

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

Ik ben zo vreselijk blij dat de laarzen erbij passen. Dat wist ik ook niet totdat ik ze uit de doos haalde, toen alles al helemaal klaar was. Anders had ik nog even stante pede op zoek moeten gaan naar wat anders.

Het grappige is dat NoKey het geheel best fantasy vond, totdat ik de onderste laag erbij aantrok. Toen werd het ineens heel Star Wars! Gewoon vanwege het stomme feit dat het topje een jedi (/samurai) uitstraling heeft.

[anemoona.livejournal.com]

Super! De kleuren combineren inderdaad erg goed bij elkaar en met meerdere lagen krijg je meteen een kostuum wat klopt (klinkt raar, maar ik hoop dat je snapt wat ik bedoel).

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

Yups!

[anemoona.livejournal.com]

Ik was een beetje rond aan het dabben op LJ en ik kwam jouw post weer tegen en ik vroeg me ineens af of je wel goed kan horen met die hood over je oren heen?

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

Ja, dat valt reuze mee. Die blaadjesstof is niet zo heel strak geweven dus er zit nog aardig wat loze lucht tussen. Het mooie aan deze hood is ook dat hij op een bepaalde manier perfect om het hoofd vormt, dus hij zit niet heel strak, maar ook vast genoeg dat hij niet afwaait.

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

Overigens, heb je al eens naar Oud-Hollandsche klederdracht gekeken? Ik denk dat ze die ook wel aangepast hadden als je er niets door kon horen. Zeker met van die oorijzers, daar ontvang je alle radiozenders mee.
Ik heb een boekje, echt leuk om te zien!

[(Anonymous)]

Het ziet er geweldig uit! Applaus!

~Brenda~

[(Anonymous)]

hij is spectaculair! Je eerste foto is heel historisch, de achterkantfoto heel japans. De mix is prachtig!