Today we're talking about fairies!!!
I can't reveal why I'm making a fairy dress right now because it's part of a Top Secret Project™ but here we go anyway.
There are few things that bother me more than cutesy-Halloween-Disney fairy costumes. I mean, sure, they have their time and place - I actually made a couple for a 5th grade Sleeping Beauty once, so I can't judge them too harshly. But for the most part, they just scream synthetic kitschyness to me.
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Can't you just feel the polyester??
Polyester isn't all bad, of course, but I feel like if anything shouldn't be synthetic it's a fairy - they're magical beings of nature, after all.
When I think of fairies I think of those beautiful old illustrations for Grimm stories or A Midsummer Night's Dream. You know, where it looks like they're wearing flowers:
And then for A Midsummer Night's Dream specifically:
Actually, this dress fits in with an aesthetic I had in mind for a hypothetical production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (this hypothetical production is not the Top Secret Project™).
Basically, in my mind all the Athenians wear white and denim, the Rude Mechanicals wear cast t-shirts and pretentious, artsy hats and the fairies all wear flowy natural fibers and hippie beads and just generally look like nature flower children.
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(Fun fact: Most of my design drawings end up faceless and appendage-less. We shall pretend that this is an artistic choice rather than a reflection on my lack of drawing talent.)
There's a whole pinterest board of my Midsummer designs and quite a few drawings because I'm a cool human who designs Shakespeare productions for fun, but that's not what this post is about so tangent ended.
The idea is to make a plain A-line dress and overlay it with layers of cheesecloth in various hues of green. I'm not sure how it'll work out, but hopefully we'll get a sort of bohemian, flowy, layered look kind of like these:
I drew a design that's only marginally better than the Titania drawing; it doesn't really capture my view for the dress (particularly because I don't know how to draw the hemline so it doesn't look like Tinkerbell). But anyway, that's the plan.
I picked up some cheesecloth for a steal at Tuesday Morning so next up will be my adventures in dyeing it. Stay tuned!
- Emma
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