The Long Awaited Photo Session…
In less than 2 days time, HandBound costumes is yet once more dragging bags of costumes down to a local photo studio to have things dressed onto mannequins and professionally photographed. Phew!
It seems such a simple thing as all the costumes are already finished and yet it’s been a mass of work.
– We’ve chopped a lady mannequin in half for the Stay Shots.
– We’ve ordered a new lady mannequin that has a squishier body (uh…hoping the softer frame will take a better liking to Stays).
– We’ve tidied, ironed, brushed down and prepared all the garments that are hanging around and waiting for this auspicious moment.
– And also, perhaps rather foolishly, started a Plain Man’s Coat for the occasion. (We’re hand sewing as we speak)
Our Hope is by the weekend (yes THIS weekend – whooop!) our website and other various selling sites, will be updated with no less than 7 new garments:
– A Pink Stripe Short Sack.
– A Silk and Linen Quilted Petticoat.
– A Floral Cotton Anglais.
– A Yellow Linen Anglais with Stomacher and Petticoat.
– And an original Silk Sack based on a gown from the V&A.
– Our version of the McCord Stays.
– A pair of Front Lacing Grey Damask Stays.
– …and possibly this jacket if we get it finished in time!!!
Also some of our old favourites will get a spruce up and some better photos taken – poor loves, they’ve been putting up with good old wooden floorboarding photographs.
There is something wonderfully exciting about listing new items up online: the nervous expectancy that they will be liked, the studious time of writing the descriptions and the brief back grounds, the choosing of the photographs….it’s all fun, fun, fun.