The dress is well documented on the internet and there are more than a few pages dedicated to it. Pride and Prejudice Costume Study has a page on it. Costumersguide has in addition a photobucket archive of images and Period Movie Review also has a page of screencaptures.
Perhaps with all that going in, there appears to be little excuse to deviate, but as always, we did. The intention was a comfortable dress as opposed to a direct replica of the ensemble worn when Elizabeth first met Wickham. The jumper dress is made from a soft brown linen and the blouse, a white linen (as opposed to white muslin cotton). We went for a drawstring at the waist instead of a split skirt on a whim, which is a decision I'm almost regretting for reasons of accuracy. We have three coconut buttons (instead of four) and the tasselled gold/brown paisley shawl is hardly an exact match for the flowered one.
Despite all the differences I'm still rather pleased with the result and it is a very comfortable dress (so much so I ended up spending Moon Festival in it).
It's only after the shoot that I realised that we have no photos of the sleeves unrolled, but they do and they're not that exciting.
To commission a similar ensemble (in linen or cotton) from the Costume Mercenary would cost £50. Separately, the shirt would cost £20 and the dress £40.
More photos of the Brown Jumper Dress under the cut.
This looks like it would work really well for a lower-city Flembic in Maelstrom.
ReplyDeleteProbably wrong era/feel, going by what most of them currently wear and the brief thing of needing to play catchup with fashion, albeit with cheaper imitations (which is problematic as a distinguishing feature in larp since almost everyone is wearing cheaper and more larp-proof versions of the "real thing".) Still, it is really comfy.
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