Life update and dressing-up wibble
Monday, 16 February 2004 09:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taimatsuHave just finished yummy pasta. Have more pasta ready to be tomorrow's lunch, which is Good. Have been preparing for Peter Pan play-reading this weekend, am playing flute in it. Have found midi of the only tune i haven't music for, but am unable to make it stick in head and might have to write it down, chiz.
Must decide on costume. Lost Boy would be easiest but I have too much GIRL BODY to be very convincing. Mrs Darling (my main part) would be nice, but is not really very possible. The play was first performed in 1908, so the evening dress she wears would be something like this *sigh*. I could throw something odd together out of assorted clothes, fabric and pins, if black velvet and long sleeves were acceptable, but they ain't. (Yes, I am a bit of a perfectionist, and would rather not wear something if I can't get it at least half-right.)
So, given my GIRL BITS I rather ought to be a female character, but that leaves me with Wendy (no nightie), the Indian heroine (someone else is being her and I'm not playing her anyway) and Tinkerbell (someone else's part, and anyway no WINGS and no time to make 'em.) So I might be left with being a lost boy or pirate despite my girlishness, or perhaps Nana if I buy a rug.
Then again, the site I referenced above has some patterns. I could conceivably make a period-ish skirt and find something for the top half... But I'd have to curl my hair...
I guess I'll go and look at my fabric stash and keep thinking. Ideas welcome.
(oh yes - see my nre LJ pic too!)
Must decide on costume. Lost Boy would be easiest but I have too much GIRL BODY to be very convincing. Mrs Darling (my main part) would be nice, but is not really very possible. The play was first performed in 1908, so the evening dress she wears would be something like this *sigh*. I could throw something odd together out of assorted clothes, fabric and pins, if black velvet and long sleeves were acceptable, but they ain't. (Yes, I am a bit of a perfectionist, and would rather not wear something if I can't get it at least half-right.)
So, given my GIRL BITS I rather ought to be a female character, but that leaves me with Wendy (no nightie), the Indian heroine (someone else is being her and I'm not playing her anyway) and Tinkerbell (someone else's part, and anyway no WINGS and no time to make 'em.) So I might be left with being a lost boy or pirate despite my girlishness, or perhaps Nana if I buy a rug.
Then again, the site I referenced above has some patterns. I could conceivably make a period-ish skirt and find something for the top half... But I'd have to curl my hair...
I guess I'll go and look at my fabric stash and keep thinking. Ideas welcome.
(oh yes - see my nre LJ pic too!)
