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Anyhow, my favorite scene in the whole entire movie was that wonderful, gorgeous masquerade ball. Yum-my! So, one day while I'm cruising around checking out the Labyrinth fansites, I stumble across The Labyrinth of Jareth Masquerade Ball. Yow! I simply had to go! Luckily, they held the 1999 Ball in New Orleans, which is much closer to me than California.
After some deliberation, I decided to do something inspired by the 18th century European silhouette. After all, I'd done English Renaissance so often, it was becoming old hat. I didn't feel that I had enough time to learn about Victorian costuming, so that was out. It boiled down to 18th century with the pocket hoops, or Regency. And frankly, I wanted something damn impressive.
This is the costume I put together for that little soiree.
Frosti's Costuming Lesson: Don't procrastinate. New Orleans is just too way cool a city to spend inside finishing up one's costume.
| No pictures yet! Sorry! |
| The Overgown | PATTERN | Pegee's of Williamsburg 1776 Dress |
| FABRIC | Dark Purple Acetate Taffeta for the body of the gown, with a wonderful tapestry in dark green and dark purple for the stomacher. |
| The Underskirt | |
| PATTERN | Used measurements and instructions I found via the 18th century women's e-list on Egroups. |
| FABRIC | Dark Green Acetate Taffeta for the underskirt. |
| The Pocket Paniers | |
| PATTERN | Jean Hunnisett's Period Costume for Stage & Screen 1500 to 1800, pages 143 to 144. |
| FABRIC | Plain ol' white cotton muslin over hoopsteel from Lacis. |
| The Stays | |
| PATTERN | Drea Leed's Elizabethan Corset Generator. Okay, I cheated. I didn't have time to draft out a pattern for 18th century stays. The Elizabethan corset worked out just fine. |
| FABRIC | Plain ol' cotton muslin over steel corset boning. If you want to talk about time crunch, the muslin was originally my mock-up before I ran out of time. I am Time Management Challenged. . |
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