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[missroserose]

I 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.

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Sian's wedding dress

[(Anonymous)]

I'm really glad you liked the dress, but speaking as the person who made it 270 feet was most definitely a typo. The dress was in fact made with aprox 25 meters of silk, 9mts of linen and 2mts of velvet. That includes the fabric used for her kirtle (under dress) which you didn't get to see untill she took the gown off. She removed the gown for the dance later when I attatched some Italianate tie on sleeves....

Re: Sian's wedding dress

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Fabric quantities regardless, that's one hell of a creation. Many congrats - it was a lot of fun to look at, what with my aforementioned costume geekery and all. ;)