Still playing catch up from Costume-Con 33. On Sunday, they had the "Miss Ellen's Portieres” competition, where entrants made costumes out of curtains. I entered wearing my shower curtain short gown, paired with a teal cotton petticoat and my perpetual work in progress, the whitework apron.
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| Showing off my grandmother's sewers union pin from when she worked at a men's pants factory in the 70s. |
Sunday night was the Historical Masquerade, to which I wore Maria Carolina's court gown. Kristen was kind enough to help me with my presentation, wearing her own jacket and petticoat combo to serve as a chamber maid.
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| Our presentation was a comical nonsense number that was basically me getting my maid to help me find my dog. |
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| A portrait of Maria Carolina of Austria, Queen of Naples and Sicily, by Giuseppe Bonito, c. 1770s. |
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| I still have a few yards of this red silk left, as well as some fur. I'm thinking that one of these days I'm going to make myself a court train to hook onto the dress, even through one wasn't present in the source painting. |
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| I'm particularly proud of my wig, which I carted onto the plane in a gift bag as my carry on. Well, it made it! |
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| Ridiculous staged costume portraits. It's was friends are for. |
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| Kristen and I with our roadies, Bethany and Lauren. (the gals pulling the strings to make our dog move on stage). |
No awards for this one, which just goes to show how hit or miss this kind of thing can be. Ah well. We had a hell of a lot of fun back stage and I'm proud of how the costume turned out. Now I just need to figure out where on earth I'll ever wear the thing again.
