Yipes, that’s loud! (circa. 7/30/2004) I’m an impatient person occasionally when it comes to wanting to jump in and start a new project, especially this one, as I’ve had the trim for nearly 20 years. In lieu of starting the gown, I’m waiting for my petticoat fabric and another piece of the lime silk to arrive, I whipped out my copy of POF and made a photocopy of the dress. Then I carefully matched the silk to my Prisma color pencil and colored away.
After I regained my vision, I was quite pleased with the initial result. When the turquoise silk arrives, I’m going to do the same thing and color in the guards. Back in the day, I once made an orange, yellow, and mustard oversized Hawaiian print (on a white background) “Jackie O” style outfit and wore it after hours at the fair site. (It was a final exam project for FIDM. The garment design was, the fabric was my own twisted sense of fashion sensibility.) The boys from Queen’s Guard threatened to call HazMat on me – it was great fun. Ah, those were the days.
I’ve done a little research into Period Venetian colors. Thanks to one of my favorite places in cyberspace and the woman who convinced me that BBW can still wear period attire and look marvelous, Oonagh’s Own. Her article on period color got me thinking. While my Lime Green is fairly close to being dead on, the Turquoise has me confused. I can’t think of anything Italian, especially Venice, without thinking of brilliant blues and greens.
