What has it got ON its pocketsess?
Feb. 21st, 2012 09:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meltintall3We wonders, yes, we wonderss. *cough*
I had an opportunity to dig my Narnian/Pre-Raphaelite/Medieval/Renaissance gowns and pieces out of my closet recently, and that reminded me of the need for pockets. Because pockets are wonderful things and besides Gollum there's also a song about "Oh I bet you'll never guess/ What I've got!" and a lovely list of keys and bicycle rings and... Anyway. Pockets.
I've seen it done where people with the same dilemma use their 18th century pocket recreations with their gowns and I think this will work with the gowns I have. But since it's for fun and practicality, I thought I'd do something fantasy for the pocket embroidery.
First I went through a list of extant pockets for inspiration as well as visiting a site that sells pocket kits (see Bristol and the Blue Thistle stomacher in particular). I'm considering doing my initials and the year on the back, in something simple because it's the least visible side of something that's really supposed to be invisible... so I was thinking white on white, maybe.
For the front, I'm envisioning something Rohan inspired. Twisty knots and galloping horses, though I can't decide if I want to do it all in shades of blue and possibly silver, (because that's rather Elvish, just like my screen-name, and my favourite colours) or bright and somewhat random colours based on what comes to hand when I go looking for thread.
The dimensions came from Janet Arnold's Patterns of Fashion Vol. 1.
I had an opportunity to dig my Narnian/Pre-Raphaelite/Medieval/Renaissance gowns and pieces out of my closet recently, and that reminded me of the need for pockets. Because pockets are wonderful things and besides Gollum there's also a song about "Oh I bet you'll never guess/ What I've got!" and a lovely list of keys and bicycle rings and... Anyway. Pockets.
I've seen it done where people with the same dilemma use their 18th century pocket recreations with their gowns and I think this will work with the gowns I have. But since it's for fun and practicality, I thought I'd do something fantasy for the pocket embroidery.
First I went through a list of extant pockets for inspiration as well as visiting a site that sells pocket kits (see Bristol and the Blue Thistle stomacher in particular). I'm considering doing my initials and the year on the back, in something simple because it's the least visible side of something that's really supposed to be invisible... so I was thinking white on white, maybe.
For the front, I'm envisioning something Rohan inspired. Twisty knots and galloping horses, though I can't decide if I want to do it all in shades of blue and possibly silver, (because that's rather Elvish, just like my screen-name, and my favourite colours) or bright and somewhat random colours based on what comes to hand when I go looking for thread.
The dimensions came from Janet Arnold's Patterns of Fashion Vol. 1.
