Theme weddings!
Sep. 11th, 2007 08:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missroseroseI really like the pictures from this medieval-reenactment wedding - it looks like the couple involved both did their research and had lots of fun with it. I particularly like the woman's dress - it looks warm and comfortable as well as stunning. One particular bit about the description stuck out, though:
Sian wore a unique court dress based on a brass rubbing that was made from 270 feet of silk in three layers. (Emphasis mine.)
Now, I realize that my costume-geekery is showing, here, but 270 feet of silk is 90 yards, which amounts to something like ten bolts of fabric. While that's a beautiful (and no doubt expensive) dress, I sincerely doubt that it used 90 yards of fabric - she would look roughly spherical, were that the case. Most likely it was a typo and the dress actually used 27 feet, or nine yards. Which is still an ostentatiously large amount - by comparison, I remember seeing a Simplicity pattern for a French Revolution-era aristocrat costume (one of those dresses with the giant skirt draped over the hip cages) that used about seven and a half.
Either way, though, awesome dress, and very fun (if expensive! 30,000 pounds?) idea for a wedding. Props to them for their efforts.
Sian wore a unique court dress based on a brass rubbing that was made from 270 feet of silk in three layers. (Emphasis mine.)
Now, I realize that my costume-geekery is showing, here, but 270 feet of silk is 90 yards, which amounts to something like ten bolts of fabric. While that's a beautiful (and no doubt expensive) dress, I sincerely doubt that it used 90 yards of fabric - she would look roughly spherical, were that the case. Most likely it was a typo and the dress actually used 27 feet, or nine yards. Which is still an ostentatiously large amount - by comparison, I remember seeing a Simplicity pattern for a French Revolution-era aristocrat costume (one of those dresses with the giant skirt draped over the hip cages) that used about seven and a half.
Either way, though, awesome dress, and very fun (if expensive! 30,000 pounds?) idea for a wedding. Props to them for their efforts.
