Kyria's journal

 To celebrate the reanimation of LJ and the arriving of the Gothic festival in my city, I dove into the past to find pictures of previous gothic/victorian outfits.I posted them on Facebook but I'll put them up here too this weekend, with a bit of background info. For now I want to let you guys know what I've been up to in the past week.

I've been busy putting laminate floor into my bedroom, removing the old closet, and once I get the last bit of flooring in today I'll put in the new closet. Yes, I'm still at it. Please hum 'eye of the tiger' or something else inspiring for me while reading this, I really, really need it. My bedroom is almost done, I need to move everything from the second bedroom to the living room on Sunday so my dad and I can get cracking on Monday and Tuesday for the very last room. I hope that I will never have to put a laminate floor in any building/room whatsoever ever again. Well, at least for the next five years or so.

But I also need to prepare for the fashion show tomorrow. I tried my clothes on in the store and they are perfect, a red leather skirt and a white corset with black lace overlay. The skirt is a perfect match to my MAC Diva lipstick, and while I was trying it on I thought it would be neat to wear red and white roses in my hair (I'm wearing my hair up). Now I have to figure out how many roses/flowers I already have and buy the rest. I also checked out the stage: it is smaller and located awkward compared to last year. There is an excavation going on on the Dom square which means the square is only half it's usual size. I'm rethinking my voi idea, but we'll have to see how everything goes tomorrow. I'll be in the store starting at 12.30 so I can get my hair and make-up done and practice with the other models.

I prepared y performance with a blood red veil, but it sort of clashes with the dried blood red of the skirt so I'm thinking of sing the fire veil instead. Which is good for the wow effect, but it doesn't refer to blood (or roses, for that matter). Argh!!

Too tired to do the complete write up, but I still have a bit of energy left in me after three days of gothic festival fun. Actually, the festival was less fun then it used to be, because:
( read why!! )

 I added box-pleated trim to cover the hook and eye closure of the cuirass bodice and added a huge silk bow to te back and dressed up on sunday for the gothic walk. thing is, it's hard to see what's wrong with an outfit unless you see pictures of it. On theother hand, it's also hard to see how gorgeous you look for the same reason. That's probably why they 'pull a curtain away from a mirror in programs like 'the swan'. I had to wear this outfit and get some pictures to see what I want to change.

It's a red silk dupioni cuirass bodice with leg of lamb arms, fitted over a corset. Bodice is reinforced with interlining of heavy cotton and 10 pieces of steel boning. Skirt has a train but since the streets were wet with rain I strategically pinned pieces of elastic in place to bustle the skirt some more and lift the hem off the street. 

frustration points:
-the pull-line in the bodice
-the collar won't stand up like it's supposed to and because I have a scrawny neck, it's a bit too large 
-the corset shows through. it's not a big problem (better to have a corset that shows then no corset at all) but maybe if I wore a corset cover it might smooth out the line a bit.
-I don't like the knifepleat ruffle on the apron, I want to replace it with a boxpleat trim app. half the width of the current trim.