I have several dress forms, since I find them at estate sales and yard sales....
One is wearing my purple costume from last Balticon (May 2011 convention in Baltimore) called "Something Purple This Way Comes". It has a HUGE beaded collar (somethingl ike 8 lbs) over the shoulders, and a nice straw hat on it that will be used for another Victorian parody. Another is modeling the skirt and overskirt combination from a parody of a Tudor skirt and overskirt that I made many years ago in Hawaiian tropical fabrics, and that I am making over for a Victorian silly costumes (very colorful though; the overskirt is a fabric with all sharks). Upstairs, the dress form has one of my 1861 outfits, this one, I re-made the swallowtail bodice pattern into a one-piece belted dress, in a lively beige and brown cotton print with a design of small diamonds with little flowers and wheat sheaves in t he middle of the diamonds. I was reseraching for a dress for Sarah Ballou, made a two-piece dress with a deep blue printed fabric, saw the beige and brown at Surplus City in LaVale, near Cumberland, Maryland on one of our trips through there, and it spoke to me. I am going to do a scene from Little Women with it. My other T-stands have various costumes on them in bright colors to keep me cheerful and remind me how creative costuming is. Yours in costuming, Lisa A _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
