Costume Con

[elizabeth_mn]

I have finally caved to peer pressure and registered for Costume Con Madison. It seems that everybody in the city and her sister is going, including a bunch of my Treadle students and my Victorian friends.

I have nothing new planned for this, but I have lots of old dresses and I am not stressing. I do have one new thing I am pondering, but it's staying my secret until I can figure it out a little better.

I don't know if I will enter any competitions. I am not a very competitive person, but it would be quite fun if I won. I have no idea what people enter so I don't know if I have a shot. Probably my best thing is my handsewn orange silk anglaise. I like the idea of my seaside dress being a copy of an extant garment but I'm not super proud of the interior construction.

Anyone else planning to go to this? Super fun times in Wisconsin? Cheese curds?

Comments

[koshka-the-cat.livejournal.com]

You'd be fabulous competing! I'm not super competitive either, but I do enjoy it. It's a good chance to show off :)

I've entered a handsewn 1770s dress (first Costume Con), embroidered Regency, the 1850s dress for the Eugenie project, the giant fuschia dress, the Spotty Dress with Aubry, and the tennis dress with Twila.

I'm not going this year. Twila is though, and entering the historic masquerade with a group.

Documentation is just a research paper on your dress. You do enough research into what you do that that should be easy for you. Here's a link to my documentation from my second Costume Con, the Regency one.
http://koshka-the-cat.com/regency_documentation.pdf

[ashamanja-babu.livejournal.com]

Thanks, it's nice to hear you think so! I need to give it a little more thought.

[the-aristocat.livejournal.com]

Your seaside dress is the best! You'd have several great dresses to enter if you'd like to try it. If you are even a little bit tepted, I'd say go for it! (But I'm not at all competetive either so I would probably skip the competition myself if it was me. So I understand if you'd rather not.)

I'll be going, too.

[(Anonymous)]

I'll be going to Costume Con this year as well. I go whenever it in the MidWest. It's always a fun time! It's at the same hotel that TeslaCon is held every year, so the staff are quite good with conventions.
And there's generally a lot of historic costumers in the MidWest, so we always get a good turn out for the Historical Masquerade.

Competing is fun even when you know that you're not going to win. You get to see all of the best costumes close-up when you're backstage!

You'll have a great time!

Sheryl
craftyladydressdiaries.blogspot.com