"The cherry blossoms are so enchanting, it's said they can drive one mad."

[ladyofthethread]

My brother gave me the photos from last weekend so here’s the new Count D costume. ^_^ It doesn’t really show in the photo but there’s a leafy pattern with metallic gold threads woven into the coat fabric and it has a soft golden shimmer to it in person. I like that I came out looking suitably pale in the first few. My brother was jokingly asking me that morning if was sick because of the pale makeup. :-P








Here’s the back of the coat. If I do a tailcoat again, I think I won’t have the tails taper next time since the split in the back seems a bit wide. ^_^; Might go back and redo the seam in the back of the skirt since it looks kind of puckered.





Is it just me or do I look like I could have just been Photoshopped into this pic? XD;



We also took a few pictures with the tropical foliage in the conservatory. It turned out to be too crowded in there to do much unfortunately. And the front pic makes me think I should try getting a new binding thingy but I don’t know if it would help much with my huge ribs. >_>;





And if anyone cares to read… silly little PSOH drabble that I wrote the other day.

Comments

[novaraven.livejournal.com]

Those are beautiful pictures. your brother is getting very good. ^^

I really love the green fabric you used, and the hand sewn piping on the front of the robe, it's so wonderful you do all your detailing by hand too. Your costumes are always so elegant!

When I bind I usually use duct tape and then put a lycra tank top or dress slip over top to smooth things out more. I can't get any smaller than 29" and my ribs are 27ish. I really don't have much difference between my rib measurement and my waist, I have a totally straight figure until you get to my hips, which I guess is why I don't look so good in tight sexy dresses and things. ^^;

I don't think you can or should try to get like completely flat with your ribs. That would not be very good for circulation and stuff. >< Also, wouldn't it just look odd if your chest was narrowed too much? I've heard some corsets can compress your ribs in but I don't ever want to try that.

[ladyofthethread.livejournal.com]

Thank you! ^_^ The green fabric was a nice find and went pretty well with the brocade I already had.

Most of the time, I prefer to handsew my trims since I know I’m less likely to mess up that way. ^_^; *remembers puckered fabric from machine sewing trim on the blue brocade D robe -_-* Fusibles usually seem to hate me, too, so I don’t trust them to hold well enough. So, hand stitching seems like the best option to me since I’m used to doing lots of it anyway because of cross stitching in the past.

Eep, duct tape sounds like it would hurt. o_o; I agree it probably wouldn’t be good to try to match my ribcage measurement with the binding since my bust sticks out a lot and it does need someplace to go. And I wouldn’t want to mess with my ribs by using a corset either. I think my problem is having both large ribs and a bust that sticks out at such a large angle.