Costume Gallery
Maretak's costume
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Together with a friend, Nathreee, I wanted to play a dryad. Our costumes would be elaborate, and we'd both be wearing a corset to go with the costume. We found the perfect fabric on e-bay: a quilting cotton with the same print in two different colour schemes. Her dryad - a firey character - would be wearing red and orange colours. My dryad - a pensive character - would be in greens and whites.
I started in November 2008 by making a deep green skirt and hand-sewing plastic leaves onto the hem. The twigs were metal with plastic, with green leaves, white berries and yellow flowers. It was a lot of work to sew them onto the skirt, but I had a few months as the event would only be in March the next year. I am also very good at sewing and watching tv together. I think the skirt was done somewhere in January. I also had two and a half meters of a lovely white polyester, with a flowery countour woven into the fabric. I managed to squeeze two longsleeves from this fabric, extending the sleeves so they would fall over my hands (saving me 5 cm of make-up), and making the body part shorter (not even navel-length). Polyester would be fine for winter events and the second longsleeve would allow me to change during the weekend. I drafted the corset pattern myself, pattern-matching all the seams, creating my own bias-tape. It is lightly boned with steel bones on each seam. For Nathreee's corset I used a gold busk, but hers was constructed the same way mine was and has exactly the same number of bones. I drafted her pattern also. The coat is from the same pattern as my Beriadanwen coat, but I wanted different sleeves. One of the sleeves is pinned onto the design to see how it 'works'. |
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This gorgeous bag is not from my hand. It was created by Ruta Jasiuniene from Luthuania. I sent her a sketch, told her the concept, and she created pure art! |
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I'm a big fan of silly hats. This headdress was inspired by Tudor-like headdresses, amongst which the French hood. I wanted Maretak to wear something that would make her seem even taller, and more haughty than she already is. I am a tall woman myself, but with the long flowing lines, slim waist, and extravagant headdress I might seem a giant compared to some.
Wool and chiffon, mostly hand-sewn. Tiny beads added later. |
Photo thanks to and © Josianne v.V. Please do not distribute. |
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