All the Northern Nevada ladies who attended Costume College this year decided to wear blue and silver, the colors of our flag, to represent our fine state. If I'm honest, I don't really care for modern Nevada blue, but luckily there were other versions of the Nevada flag that were more appealing to me, like this one:
The Nevada flag of 1905 |
The Devil's Auction, 1894 |
The corset is really stiff. I fused the velvet with canvas, and boned it with spiral steels (which are amazing!). Originally I thought of making a body-suit, one-piece, corset+knickers-all-together, but then I realize...how does one go about one's business when they're strapped into something all-in-one like that?
Instead I went with a short skirt very similar to the one in this image:
Daisy Belmont, 1890s |
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The Northern Nevada ladies. I like how the blues were many different hues, but the whole group looked cohesive. |
...and now to start plotting and planning for next year's Gala costume, mwahahaha!
It's amazing and fabulous!
ReplyDeleteJust love it!! Great job!
ReplyDeleteThis is so completely awesome, and you looked SO authentic!! Straight out of an old postcard. Absolute LOVE!
ReplyDeleteLove, love, love this outfit! All of your effort was so worth it.
ReplyDeleteI'm still amazed that you can Charleston in it! I might have to make a short skirt to go with my red corset and try out some crazy dance moves...
ReplyDeleteYou're also making me want to do a vaudeville/burlesque costume now. We could get a whole group of lovely ladies all dolled up and fabulous looking. Stop adding ideas to my head! Poor Curtis will never get his new waistcoat if I keep getting distracted by shiny new projects.
Do it! I was thinking of wearing this to Gaskells in October - do you think they'd let me in? My secret pass-the-door plan was to make one of those cool, short, gored skirts with all the petticoat under it, in lots of the images on the Pinterest board, and then, like, whip it off once inside...
DeleteIt would totally pass for the October dance, no problems. But now I wanna see you make the gored skirt, then whip it off mid dance!
DeleteWow! This is so cool!
ReplyDeleteIt is totally AWESOME!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThat turned out so well!
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone!
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