color waffling
Oct. 9th, 2012 03:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elizabeth_mnI need to get moving if I want to have a new dress for Twelfth Night. I'm planning to order satin at work (employee discount ftw!) but now I need to choose a color. Since I don't want the whole piece, I need to choose a color that my boss can sell the rest of in the store (so fuchsia is out) but in order for the special order to be worth her while I still need to buy enough for, essentially, two dresses, so I need to pick something that I think can cross eras.
The 12th night gown plan is mid/late 1870s, and hopefully I can make something 18th c out of the other half the satin. Light colors really show up best in the ballroom, but I don't want to go too pastel. I gravitate toward blue and olive but should probably go a little more crazy because why not? it's a costume. Pink? Yellow? Tangerine?
Of course, the fashion plate I'm copying is black&white, so in that sense I'm kind of on my own! Clearly I need to spend another few hours agonizing over the swatch card (again).
The 12th night gown plan is mid/late 1870s, and hopefully I can make something 18th c out of the other half the satin. Light colors really show up best in the ballroom, but I don't want to go too pastel. I gravitate toward blue and olive but should probably go a little more crazy because why not? it's a costume. Pink? Yellow? Tangerine?
Of course, the fashion plate I'm copying is black&white, so in that sense I'm kind of on my own! Clearly I need to spend another few hours agonizing over the swatch card (again).
