A Compromise. And a Design Concept.
Hehe, after much insistence from Adam that lace and ruffles are horribly hideous, he looked at this picture and said "His ruffle's not so bad. You know, IF you were gonna make me wear a ruffle...". Im taking this to mean that if i edge his ruffle in black so its not as prominent, he won't mind. Mwahahahahaha! You know, just in case I NEED to make a ruffle. Honestly, I'm happy without the ruff. We will see how inspired I get on this sewing adventure.
ruffle
Adam is a MUCH better sketch artist than I am. Thus I had him sketch out his ideal look. Here is what he gave me. I"m impressed and VERY excited to start! The design is the same in both of these, but he photoshopped with 2 different color schemes he likes. He's still deciding, so I shan't buy fabric quite yet. ;-) Mostly it boils down to a non-peascod doublet with buttons down the front (i will try to make my own thread covered buttons), vertical pinking on the lower torso, Horizontal couching on the upper torso (with either more couching or pinking in between these). The slops are pretty self explanatory. Adam is a fan of pretty plain sleeves, so that shouldn't be too difficult (or interesting), but he may allow some couching on them like in the sketch.
Oh, and he won't have ninja footie socks or ninja knee ties like in his sketch. But it is an awfully cute detail. I wish I could sketch like this:
ruffle
Adam is a MUCH better sketch artist than I am. Thus I had him sketch out his ideal look. Here is what he gave me. I"m impressed and VERY excited to start! The design is the same in both of these, but he photoshopped with 2 different color schemes he likes. He's still deciding, so I shan't buy fabric quite yet. ;-) Mostly it boils down to a non-peascod doublet with buttons down the front (i will try to make my own thread covered buttons), vertical pinking on the lower torso, Horizontal couching on the upper torso (with either more couching or pinking in between these). The slops are pretty self explanatory. Adam is a fan of pretty plain sleeves, so that shouldn't be too difficult (or interesting), but he may allow some couching on them like in the sketch.
Oh, and he won't have ninja footie socks or ninja knee ties like in his sketch. But it is an awfully cute detail. I wish I could sketch like this:
 sketch1 |  sketch 2 |
posted by Julebug | 11:22 AM
3 Comments:
Adam! Design for me! I will wear the ninja fooites!
Julie--awesome site. This is going to be so much fun to follow!
Very nice. And, considering that there's only so much leeway in menswear, not completely identical to my plan for Aaron so that's good!
They're going to have a certain resemblance, though. He too, refuses the peascod and likes rather moderate trunkhose. I was however thinking of a mostly horizontal design for the tunic decorations, so that should provide some differences, and I'll come up with something slightly different for the waist/shoulder treatments. Fun stuff!
I am, just for interest, leaning towards the picture of Prince Carlos (in the silly fur-lined cloak, but without the silly fur-lined cloak) as a sartorial example.
I'd expect resemblences, there's only so much you can do with men's clothes. I think the big differences will be in the details, which is more fun anyway!
I thought we were getting close to a final design, but adam has been photoshop tinkering with it since yesterday. I wonder what he'll change. I have a no-fabric-buying rule until he decides...
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