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Revolutionary Germantown
Oct. 2nd, 2011 07:03 pmYesterday I met up with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
madamekat, blackcat452, and mandie_rw in Germantown. Now Germantown is part of Philadelphia, it's actually within the city limits. But in 1777 it was considered "the country." The Revolutionary Germantown festival commemorates the Battle of Germantown, which happened on Oct 4th 1777, I had to look that up as our tour guide just new it happened "around now"
Cliveden is a beautiful historic house. I have a great fondness for Colonial architecture, I like symmetry and everything is so perfectly balanced. Our tour guide was a lovely example of why American's can't get their history right. He proudly told us how the shutters (not the actual wooden door mind you) had no door knobs, because it was tacky to open one's own door, you had servants for that...what the servants used to open the doors is anyone's guess. He also told us they flew in all silks with colors from France, and if you had yellow you were a millionaire. (were there even millionaires yet?) But the house itself was beautiful. I want crown molding like that someday!
Anyway the jacket was a decided mixed bag. The Back looked wonderful. I was very proud of the pattern matching and the waistline was in the right place. But on the front the slits clearly needed to be higher and those sleeves will be removed and BURNED. Halfway through the event I was suddenly struck with paranoia that I looked like all the other crazy old bitties there in their upholstery fabric.
I ended up making a very simple cloak and cap the night before. I thought about a ruffled cap as I could have gathered that in seconds, but that seemed so mass produced, so I did little knife pleats on a shaped band. I was quite happy with it. Although next time I think I need to pin it a little farther back, it was just a hair forward.
I put the pictures on Flickr for the first time and for some reason I can't embed them here on LJ like I could photobucket. I yoinked one frommadamekat and the rest were emailed to me by a man we met there who was trying to convince us to be in his movie as extras. Nice guy, but I only do films for one man :-) I took a few on my camera before it died...I'll charge the battery at some point and add them.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/68184605@N07/sets/72157627679679453/
madamekat, blackcat452, and mandie_rw in Germantown. Now Germantown is part of Philadelphia, it's actually within the city limits. But in 1777 it was considered "the country." The Revolutionary Germantown festival commemorates the Battle of Germantown, which happened on Oct 4th 1777, I had to look that up as our tour guide just new it happened "around now" Cliveden is a beautiful historic house. I have a great fondness for Colonial architecture, I like symmetry and everything is so perfectly balanced. Our tour guide was a lovely example of why American's can't get their history right. He proudly told us how the shutters (not the actual wooden door mind you) had no door knobs, because it was tacky to open one's own door, you had servants for that...what the servants used to open the doors is anyone's guess. He also told us they flew in all silks with colors from France, and if you had yellow you were a millionaire. (were there even millionaires yet?) But the house itself was beautiful. I want crown molding like that someday!
Anyway the jacket was a decided mixed bag. The Back looked wonderful. I was very proud of the pattern matching and the waistline was in the right place. But on the front the slits clearly needed to be higher and those sleeves will be removed and BURNED. Halfway through the event I was suddenly struck with paranoia that I looked like all the other crazy old bitties there in their upholstery fabric.
I ended up making a very simple cloak and cap the night before. I thought about a ruffled cap as I could have gathered that in seconds, but that seemed so mass produced, so I did little knife pleats on a shaped band. I was quite happy with it. Although next time I think I need to pin it a little farther back, it was just a hair forward.
I put the pictures on Flickr for the first time and for some reason I can't embed them here on LJ like I could photobucket. I yoinked one from
madamekat and the rest were emailed to me by a man we met there who was trying to convince us to be in his movie as extras. Nice guy, but I only do films for one man :-) I took a few on my camera before it died...I'll charge the battery at some point and add them.http://www.flickr.com/photos/68184605@N07/sets/72157627679679453/
