Sleepy Hollow Shirt

Last month I put this shirt that was in the movie Sleepy Hollow on layaway at Propstore.com!

I thought if my husband ever wanted (or if I wanted him) to go to an event, he'd have an 18th century shirt! Plus, Sleepy Hollow! I have one costume from it, the midwife's gown, and the construction is beautiful. I'm hoping this will be nice too.

Here's the description:

A white shirt worn in the 1999 Tim Burton and Johnny Depp movie Sleepy Hollow. This style of period garment was worn by many of the inhabitants of Sleepy Hollow, the small town haunted by tales and sighting of the Headless Horseman. It is made from cotton and has distinct bunching around the cuffs, shoulders and collar with interesting hoop buttons. It also comes with a very fine cotton neck scarf seen around the men’s necks in a traditional knot. There is no name or size marked inside and is a piece from the movie that sees very few costume pieces surface.

Playing card bracelet

 I was browsing on one of my favorite antique sites and I saw this gorgeous Georgian playing card bracelet that dates to 1810 or perhaps earlier.

http://www.rubylane.com/item/632727-J1037/Unique-Georgian-Era-Playing-Card

I'm going to a regency card party in a few weeks, so this really caught my eye.

Sadly, I do not have a spare $1850 to buy it.

But I did remember that I had some playing card buttons I bought at Bocage - so I thought I'd play with them.

They do have shanks on the back, which I should probably try and remove. But I did have some chain on hand, and some gold foil. So I glued it around the edges of each button, and then a glued a jump ring on using another small piece of foil over it - and voila! My own much cheaper bracelet!  Not perfect, and not the same, but not too bad for using things I had on hand!

Facebook

I made a Facebook fan page for Costumer's Guide! I have no idea how much I'll update, but you never know.

https://www.facebook.com/costumersguide



Also, you can find me on Twitter here:

http://twitter.com/costumersguide

I tweet every once in a while.

Also, Padawan's Guide:
https://www.facebook.com/padawansguide

Pepper Costumes

It's always fun to see the Sgt Pepper costumes Jess, Janine, and I made for The Return.

Adam just tweeted this pic:

Janine and I finally got to see the suits in action recently, when The Return played locally.

After the show I was finally able to fix the medals on Richard's John costume - they were sewn on the wrong stripe. Probably because we had had to rush getting these costumes done and it was probably 4am when they were sewn on! It always bothered me, though no one else had any idea they were wrong. But I knew! So, fixed. :-)

 

1790s gown

I have an other Regency event coming up in July, and I have the perfect thing to sew for it!

The moment I saw this fashion plate, I knew I had the perfect fabric for it - but I didn't have enough.  It was a 2 yd piece of gorgeous blue dupioni (yeah, I know, not period) from Joann Fabric that matched this perfectly.  I gave up on the idea because I couldn't find more of the fabric, until a friend let me know that there was a Joann that did have lots of colors of silk.  I checked it out and found the color I wanted! And they let me use a coupon on it - so I guess this dress is a go!

Of course the new silk doesn't quite match the old, it's a little greener. But it's close, and I think it will make a great version of this plate!

I don't know what the front looks like, but I'm going to use this 1795-1800 gown from the KCI collection.