Civil Era Dress - at "Hell on Wheels"

So, my flight was without problems and I managed not to forget to take the last hook with me. So, I ended up in Prague. I found the right spot where another 70+ people with cowboy hats and huge bags waited a bus and we took our ride in the middle of the Czech Republic to "Stonetown". It is actual Wild West village build by a man who actually lives in a house in the "Stonetown". He rents the place out for different types of events, like a LARP I was participating in.

So, I think, in the end, with the organizers and NPC there were around 100 people, all in amazing costumes. There were people all around Europe, maybe even from further.

Anyway, few very good shots about my costume were taken:

Photographer: Tomas Flankey Felcman as EXPit thru lens

Main shot of me in front of the company building. The costume looks stunning, I think :)

photographer: Erik Pihl

Another shot, showing the back of the dress. I do not have my hairstyle yet, so it is probably early in the morning.

This one was taken with my camera and you can see the hooks nicely here. You would not believe they were originally red.

Photographer: Tomas Flankey Felcman as EXPit thru lens

This is one of my favorite shots from the game. It was amazing action scene and very emotional scene for my character and this photo caught it all so well.

And some more great shots from the larp:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To sum up, I can say it was amazing LARP. I would play it again, in a heartbeat. I got many compliments for my costume and I was very happy with it. It was maybe little too warm during the midday when sun was out (on the first day) but it was all rainy and misty rest of the event so it was perfect - some point I had to even wear a cloak to keep myself warm.

So, another project very successfully done :)

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Civil war era dress - trouble with the jacket

So, a while ago I wrote the trouble I had with the jacket. I wanted to have that kind of bottom extra length but as I did not had the pattern, I tried to make it by myself. I managed it but I was never fully happy with it.

 

After finishing the skirt and trying it all with the pannier and petticoat, I realized that I had not considered the way skirt is expanding and the sides of the jacket (over the skirt) were looking very weird.

So, I decided to scrap the whole idea and just make similar ruffle at the bottom of the jacket as I had at the bottom of the skirt and use another line of black ribbon above it. This worked much better and looked neat:

 For closing the jacket, I used lot of snap fasteners. I think there were more than 20 of them but it made the jacket close really nice. In the end, I actually sew few fabric made hooks at the top so that it would look like the hooks are actually used for closing the jacket.

The hooks I got from fabric shop were redish but not the same tone as the ruffles and they did not matched. Therefore - I had to make them more purple. I got purple silk paint that was in right tone and then I just soaked the hooks on it. It was all in the very last minute and it took a day to try. The paint said that to make the paint stick, I had to iron it but the hooks also had plastic pearls on it, so I actually couldn't iron it very much as they started to melt.

Anyway.. I ruined one hook and had to color another one. So the night before leaving for the larp, I had four hooks on the jacket, the last one was drying and I hoped I will not forget it to take it with me early in the morning when the plain goes.

Anyway.. Time had ran out. "Hell on Wheels" started tomorrow and my dress was mostly done. Yay :D

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