countdown to costume-con!

[newmoonstar]

Costume Con is this week! The 1870 day dress is almost done but for a few finishing touches, and the 1870 ball dress should hopefully be done just in time! Building a new era of dress from the ground up, including all the underpinnings, took a lot of time, and consequently I have nothing else new to wear during the day on Sunday. I'm wondering now what I should wear, and thinking either the 1870 day dress again; my Lady Mary Crawley cosplay (because when else will I be able to cosplay a character from Downton Abbey? Even if no one gets it, it's still a fun flapper dress!) or my 1860s summer dress- which, while it is pretty, it's also the only 1860s dress I have that currently fits, so I wore it reenacting all last year and am rather tired of it. However, it already has accessories, and hoopskirts have more wow factor than most other styles. IDK.

(I'm the one in the white floral print)

I really did want to do a dress diary type thing with work-in-progress pics but now it'll have to wait till my next historical dress project- I've got so much sewing to do yet that I even skipped the season finale of Grantchester, and if I give up Masterpiece or Mystery!, you know it's serious! But I still had to watch Mr. Selfridge because no one can give up everything :p

(Grantchester has finally grown on me after all, though it's generally a bit of a downer. But it's a British period mystery show, so there's wasn't much chance I'd able to keep away from it for long, lol. I usually want to scream at Sidney for being a self-destructive human train wreck, and I really don't care for his tortured romance with Amanda at all, but it's all very nice to look at, at least! I'm genuinely fond of Leonard especially, and I very much hope his tentative romance with his new boyfriend doesn't end sadly, because he's a beautiful cinnamon roll who deserves happiness and I will cry if anything bad happens to him.)

Onward to more sewing!

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

Good luck with the con! And that pictured dress is awesome. I'm sure the new ones are too! :-)

[newmoonstar]

Thanks very much! :)

[evelyn-b.livejournal.com]

That's a beautiful dress! :D I hope you have a great time at Costume Con and get lots of costume compliments.

Should I watch Grantchester? I like mysteries and human trainwrecks. How depressing is it?

[newmoonstar]

Thank you! :)

Grantchester is a sturdy, well-made British period mystery series, so it's definitely watchable for anyone who enjoys that milieu to begin with, but there's a lot of slightly pointless angst. Sidney Chambers is your typical 'sexy but troubled' brooding leading man type, and much of it stems from his own inexplicable inability to tell his sorta-girlfriend that he loves her, and her same inexplicable inability to do the same, even though they're both crazy about each other. They have zero obstacles keeping them apart when it starts, mind you, but for absolutely no reason I can fathom, they spend all their time creating obstacles for their romance. The show is about half 'Sidney tagging along on murder investigations', and half 'Sidney making poor life choices and feeling sorry for himself about it'. :p

So basically, whether you should watch Grantchester kind of depends on how much you can take of characters being stupid on flimsy pretexts. In my case, 1950s costumes and English countryside helps me put up with a lot more than I usually would, and Sidney's friendships with the rest of the supporting characters are much more interesting and better written than the love interest. The end of new Poirot left me with a need for another mystery series in it's place, and even though the cases on Grantchester tend to be more dark and commonly sordid types of things than the ingenious Agatha Christie puzzles I prefer, I just make a point to watch something happy afterward, and it's alright. (And yes, though I rolled my eyes over the hype in the promos for the show, James Norton *is* very pretty, if having attractive actors to look at makes a difference, lol.)