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Finally. The damn Arwen Dream Gown pictures that I took last spring.
This costume was worn to the Gathering of the Fellowship Masquerade Ball in Toronto in December of 2003, and the pictures were actually taken last spring. Took me forever to get them developed, but here they finally are.
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armyj, who let me use his sewing machine the day before we went to Toronto. Never would have finished it without his help :)
The first in the "Wow, who ran over your dog?" series (according to my dad.)
I own this log. That's right, bitch. Back off.
Er, still owning the log, but more distracted this time.
Guess what. This picture was taken before any of the promos for "King Arthur" were released. Eat your heart out, Kiera Knightley.
The second picture in the "Who ran over your dog?" series.
They ran over my dog six times. I was very sad.
Me with my bow, sans arrow because Mom didn't want me to shoot the neighbors by mistake.
This costume is not a good dress for dance, since the outer flowy parts are only secured at the shoulders, and tend to go wherever they want regardless of what your body is doing (see picture.) However, this is an awesome backyard dancing shot, so I'm throwing it up here anyway.
View from the side. And the neighbor's garage. How elvish...
View from the front. I look like an idiot, but the dress looks nice.
There isn't any particular way to make this dress. There's no pattern for it, really, other than the ancient Greek Doric chiton, which is what I based my dress on. The fabric is from the fancy fabric section of JoAnn Fabrics.
Fabric
Underdress: 4 yards of a basic matte polyester in dark lavender
Overdress: 4 1-yard pieces of pale lavender chiffon, hemmed into sqares
For the underdress, I used a basic sleeveless dress pattern. The original pattern came to the knee, so I lengthened it to fall to just past my feet, and made the slits at the side seams higher, so they came to about my mid thigh. The underdress is really simple; there were no front seams, and the back was fixed with a zipper. (I can't remember the pattern number off of my head, sorry!)
For the overdress, I took two of the four pieces of chiffon and secured them with safety pins at my shoulders. This, the bottom layer, was draped lengthwise, so the bottom hem touched my feet. Then I took the second two pieces and draped them widthwise and pinned them at my shoulders. This causes the overdress to have a hem that cuts across at about your knees and interferes with the lines of the dress, but it's not too bad and you get a very nice "waterfall" effect on the sides.
Arwen's dress has very thin straps at the shoulders; this was kind of tricky to figure out, since I had so much fabric bunched up there. In the end, I pinned the back and front pieces together with a long saftey pin (the pin pierced all four pieces of fabric) and wrapped the whole thing with satin lavender ribbon, wrapping the shoulder straps of the underdress as well. Close up, it looks slightly different with the ribbon wrap, but overall it gets the thin-strap look.
Not bad for a broken sewing machine and six hours of frantic sewing on a friend's machine, huh? :)
And finally...
Galadriel and Luthien, from the Lothlorien PD Crime Lab Graveyard Shift!
My biggest thank you in this whole project goes to
armyj, who let me use his sewing machine the day before we went to Toronto. Never would have finished it without his help :)The first in the "Wow, who ran over your dog?" series (according to my dad.)
I own this log. That's right, bitch. Back off.
Er, still owning the log, but more distracted this time.
Guess what. This picture was taken before any of the promos for "King Arthur" were released. Eat your heart out, Kiera Knightley.
The second picture in the "Who ran over your dog?" series.
They ran over my dog six times. I was very sad.
Me with my bow, sans arrow because Mom didn't want me to shoot the neighbors by mistake.
This costume is not a good dress for dance, since the outer flowy parts are only secured at the shoulders, and tend to go wherever they want regardless of what your body is doing (see picture.) However, this is an awesome backyard dancing shot, so I'm throwing it up here anyway.
View from the side. And the neighbor's garage. How elvish...
View from the front. I look like an idiot, but the dress looks nice.
There isn't any particular way to make this dress. There's no pattern for it, really, other than the ancient Greek Doric chiton, which is what I based my dress on. The fabric is from the fancy fabric section of JoAnn Fabrics.
Fabric
Underdress: 4 yards of a basic matte polyester in dark lavender
Overdress: 4 1-yard pieces of pale lavender chiffon, hemmed into sqares
For the underdress, I used a basic sleeveless dress pattern. The original pattern came to the knee, so I lengthened it to fall to just past my feet, and made the slits at the side seams higher, so they came to about my mid thigh. The underdress is really simple; there were no front seams, and the back was fixed with a zipper. (I can't remember the pattern number off of my head, sorry!)
For the overdress, I took two of the four pieces of chiffon and secured them with safety pins at my shoulders. This, the bottom layer, was draped lengthwise, so the bottom hem touched my feet. Then I took the second two pieces and draped them widthwise and pinned them at my shoulders. This causes the overdress to have a hem that cuts across at about your knees and interferes with the lines of the dress, but it's not too bad and you get a very nice "waterfall" effect on the sides.
Arwen's dress has very thin straps at the shoulders; this was kind of tricky to figure out, since I had so much fabric bunched up there. In the end, I pinned the back and front pieces together with a long saftey pin (the pin pierced all four pieces of fabric) and wrapped the whole thing with satin lavender ribbon, wrapping the shoulder straps of the underdress as well. Close up, it looks slightly different with the ribbon wrap, but overall it gets the thin-strap look.
Not bad for a broken sewing machine and six hours of frantic sewing on a friend's machine, huh? :)
And finally...
Galadriel and Luthien, from the Lothlorien PD Crime Lab Graveyard Shift!