Help choose Rob's waistcoat trim

[robinsnest]

Here you can see the  cut out waistcoat on my table.  It's going to have those small silver buttons that the man picked out and now I can't decide on trim. So you get to help me!

Option 1. This silvery gimp with flat sequins sprinkled randomly about. (I should warn you I do NOT plan to measure and I WILL be attempting glue before I sew them all on)





Option 2.
A cream gimp with sequins in a row around the pockets, same silver buttons as he likes them.



[Poll #1897177][Poll #1897177]

Comments

[brickhousewench.livejournal.com]

Wait, why are you putting sequins on it again? (I think I may have missed what event this is for...)

[sewloud.livejournal.com]

It's for this years Francaise dinner Rob wants to be a lavender Fop.



Last year.

[brickhousewench.livejournal.com]

Ah, he wants to be a fop! I was going to say, because sequins aren't especially manly. But fops? Oh Hells Yes!

[sewloud.livejournal.com]

oh boy does he want to be a Fop, he's been watching black adder re-runs and practicing his character.

[brickhousewench.livejournal.com]

Hee! My favorite fop is still Anthony Andrews in the 1982 The Scarlett Pimpernel! He's FABULOUS! And I love how he can turn it on and off in a heartbeat. <3 <3 <3

[hiraimi.livejournal.com]

Best. Ever. Completely my favourite as well!

[brickhousewench.livejournal.com]

Sink me muh dear, but you've got smashing good taste in men!

[danabren.livejournal.com]

Icon love time elebentybillion.

[laracorsets.livejournal.com]

Love it!!! My Steve wants to be a fop too ... eventually.

[laracorsets.livejournal.com]

I beg you not to glue. Really, sewing will be much quicker then you think and the glue will likely stain, never come off or (as I have learned the hard way) eventually the sequin will fall off and leave that ugly glue spot/stain/crust for all to see.

[ladyxjade.livejournal.com]

I'll have to think about it.... BUT OMG WE HAVE THE SAME BUTTONS.

[sewloud.livejournal.com]

Hey I showed you them first! LOL Maybe i should do fabric covered buttons.

[quincy134.livejournal.com]

I like the braid in the first option!

[jennylafleur.livejournal.com]

I like option #1 - go for the bling! A fop needs some sequins scattered in the trim too. Just saying.

Also there is no shame in gluing sequins, especially when they are scattered like that. Bah! I hand sewed the scattered sequins on my Red Diva dress bodice (hand sewed the ones in the trim too, that was easier!) but totally glued all the ones on the skirt. And no one has ever known.

Use tweezers and E-6000 glue - a friend who does ball room dancing recommended the glue to me and it is great stuff. The flumes will kill brain cells if you aren't in a well-ventilated space but the sequins (or rhinestones) will never come off! At least none of mine have.

[laracorsets.livejournal.com]

The E6000 is good stuff and might actually stay. We used it on all the America's got talent & dancing with the stars costumes. We applied it with a needle-less syringe to control how much came out at once.

[sewloud.livejournal.com]

That's what I always use. We used it to go gems at the ren faire and so it's always my go to.

[mandie-rw.livejournal.com]

SEQUINS.

[sewaddicted.livejournal.com]

The trim of 2 with the scattered sequins of 1, and some sequins to highlight the pocket flap.