Applied Silliness
Dec. 21st, 2008 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fangrrl_squees(It occurs to me that this journal needs a costuming icon. Any suggestions?)
It's not like I'm ever going to make it - no, seriously, I'm not - but the mental noodling has been fun.
What mental noodling is that, oh fangrrl? I hear you ask.
It's the create a costume for Servalan mental noodling.
Because, y'know, sometimes you've just gotta let yourself be outrageous.
Unfortunately, I find myself inhibited - stop laughing! - and thus stuck with, at best, something that reads like Frederick's of Hollywood idea of evening wear. Ugh.
And, of course, there's the fact that, damn, that character had an extensive wardrobe. Most ideas I've discarded have been tossed out because they've already been done.
At this point, I'm thinking about the Vivienne Westwood approach. Pillage a historical period and remake it in some funky-assed fabric.
And I'm serious about not making it. I'm built like a hobbit, and trying to jam myself into what would be, essentially, a dress for an elf wouldn't do my any favors. Y'all know my costuming mantras by now1.
1 - costume to your body-type, whenever possible. Sort out the shoes before you start sewing. Overreaching is the funnest way to learn. Perfect is the enemy of done. My doom: a long thoughtful stare and the statment I can do that.
It's not like I'm ever going to make it - no, seriously, I'm not - but the mental noodling has been fun.
What mental noodling is that, oh fangrrl? I hear you ask.
It's the create a costume for Servalan mental noodling.
Because, y'know, sometimes you've just gotta let yourself be outrageous.
Unfortunately, I find myself inhibited - stop laughing! - and thus stuck with, at best, something that reads like Frederick's of Hollywood idea of evening wear. Ugh.
And, of course, there's the fact that, damn, that character had an extensive wardrobe. Most ideas I've discarded have been tossed out because they've already been done.
At this point, I'm thinking about the Vivienne Westwood approach. Pillage a historical period and remake it in some funky-assed fabric.
And I'm serious about not making it. I'm built like a hobbit, and trying to jam myself into what would be, essentially, a dress for an elf wouldn't do my any favors. Y'all know my costuming mantras by now1.
1 - costume to your body-type, whenever possible. Sort out the shoes before you start sewing. Overreaching is the funnest way to learn. Perfect is the enemy of done. My doom: a long thoughtful stare and the statment I can do that.
