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Costuming Plans 2014
Jan. 6th, 2014 06:48 pmI'm on the verge of something major happening to my brain. While I've been spending a fair amount of time reading costume blogs and I'm full of eager plans for the year (I've signed up for the Historical Sew Fortnightly again :3). But I always have the same problem - where do I wear these things?
I mean, cosplay is easy. There's 4 local cons, minimum, to wear it to. There's two big "geek" cons to wear non-anime cosplay to. If one is willing to suffer through steampunk, there's lots of opportunity to wear Victorian. If I ever make it out to SCA events, there's Elizabethan and earlier. But where does one wear a full Georgian get-up? (Think Marie Antoinette, though I'm not sure I'll ever have need of a hoopskirt wider than I am tall.) We've already decided to continue the Regency Canada Day picnic, and I can wear any of these outfits to Club picnics. It's one reason I go on the Stettler train trip every year; the trip itself is not terribly exciting more than once, but it's the perfect setting and opportunity to wear more Victorian. I'm hesitant to go in small groups to the living history site; I got separated from the main group the last time I went in costume and had more than one person ask me for information.
American Duchess has a neat post on throwing your own costuming events, and that's pretty much what happened with the local steampunk group (start making events and pimp the shit out of them). My problem is that I want events to go to and people to hang out with in costume, and I don't want to do any of the legwork creating, maintaining, and promoting the group in the first place. But someone needs to do it if I want to have places to go to wear the things I make without standing out like a sore thumb. At the very least, I ought to have something in place if/when people ask me questions (and they will).
Maybe it's silly, but it's a little scary at the same time...
I mean, cosplay is easy. There's 4 local cons, minimum, to wear it to. There's two big "geek" cons to wear non-anime cosplay to. If one is willing to suffer through steampunk, there's lots of opportunity to wear Victorian. If I ever make it out to SCA events, there's Elizabethan and earlier. But where does one wear a full Georgian get-up? (Think Marie Antoinette, though I'm not sure I'll ever have need of a hoopskirt wider than I am tall.) We've already decided to continue the Regency Canada Day picnic, and I can wear any of these outfits to Club picnics. It's one reason I go on the Stettler train trip every year; the trip itself is not terribly exciting more than once, but it's the perfect setting and opportunity to wear more Victorian. I'm hesitant to go in small groups to the living history site; I got separated from the main group the last time I went in costume and had more than one person ask me for information.
American Duchess has a neat post on throwing your own costuming events, and that's pretty much what happened with the local steampunk group (start making events and pimp the shit out of them). My problem is that I want events to go to and people to hang out with in costume, and I don't want to do any of the legwork creating, maintaining, and promoting the group in the first place. But someone needs to do it if I want to have places to go to wear the things I make without standing out like a sore thumb. At the very least, I ought to have something in place if/when people ask me questions (and they will).
Maybe it's silly, but it's a little scary at the same time...
