I love how you just toss out, "Bernadette's puffy pirate shirt" without any visual reference whatsoever and trust that your audience is going to know exactly what you mean!
@@melanierippon7884 I was wondering if you can actually google it and turns out you can. If you put in "Bernadette's Puffy Pirate Shirt" it literally brings up the youtube video as the first link. However, if you image search it then you won't get an actual picture of it for a two full rows of other pirate shirts (and other BB images, too). Interesting.
I would love to see this. Maybe in anyone completes their sew waredrobe. It is hard to imagine how things will fall or what the materials will look like.
Have you ever considered making paper dolls? These designs remind me of a giant book of paper dolls and clothing I had as a kid and your designs (and specifically the way you design) would work so well for that! Absolutely love this capsule set. Very inspirational!
I think it's cute how much 'medieval fantasy' takes from other time periods (or how much they take from a real or imagined past). The 'pirate shirt' combined with the pointed yoke skirt suddenly reads edwardian! It's very charming :)
I honestly love this as a writer who has based my story's economy around textiles with politics and war to get access to the best quality, most talented craftspeople, and actual land to produce the fibres. So many ideas 🤯❤
I love this type of video. It’s also making me think more about my own wardrobe- which is (planned to be) a mix of different eras, from the 13th century through to the 19teens. But with the colours and textures similar throughout to allow me to mix and match through eras, as well as still be able to have a full outfit from one particular era. I’m also trying to make at least one piece per era that elevates it from a more history bounding/wearable outfit, to a full on costume. But I don’t want to make just costumes, as I want to be able to wear what I make. My colours are natural and plain whites, beiges, browns and greys with pops of blue and blue-green. But what I haven’t done is sit down and design it all in a bunch, to be able to see the plan, as opposed to just a written list. This is making me think that it might be a good idea to do that.
Wow! That’s quite an endeavour!! So many different silhouettes and styles… I’d love to see how you manage it! 🤗💖 I’m struggling just to capsule wardrobe 1660s-1790s and 1870s-1900! All of which at least share a corseted torso and a full or flared skirt! 😂 The sleeves, the necklines, the bustle or lack thereof, and whether there is horizontal emphasis or vertical emphasis overall, are elements to consider in mixing and matching pieces from different eras. I’m stuck, so if you manage it, please share!!! 🥰😇🙏
I'd say the exception to using prints as a lining is when its repurposing something old that's too worn to use where it will be visible, or you're using up scraps. I remember a photo of an 18th century bodice that had 3 or 4 distinctly different print fabrics as the lining, someone clearly went through their scraps basket and found whatever would fit.
This makes me think that I can combine my own Bernadette shirt with wide leg pants that were hanging in my closet forever because I don't know how to style them🤔🤔🤔
Personally I wear mine with dark colored, skinny, high waisted pants to emulate the "Renaissance duelist in tights" or "Howl Jenkins showing Sophie the flower field" look!
I really appreciated your observation about the princess seams--I like the way they look on me and also want to do history bounding, but of course, it doesn't have to be accurate--just inspired.
Mariah, I love your capsule wardrobes so much. Watching you build this wardrobe for your patron made me not only want to become a patron at some point to see more work like this but also to try and think better about my characters' clothing when writing (which I haven't done in a long, long time... Touché). I want to, but I'll have to wait until my finances recover. They've suffered a lot these past few months. *bemoans in South American language* WHY DO I ONLY GET COTTON TO WORK WITH THEN I LONG FOR LINEN. Linen is ridiculously expensive here. Like, almost as expensive as silk. You can find blends of polyester with wool that are cheaper and I've even found 100% wool that is closer in price to 100% cotton fabrics, but linen is ridiculously expensive. Not to mention how hard it is to find a thread that is anything but polyester. Not to mention there're like, 2 types of linen fabrics here. And maybe 3 of cotton fabric. The rest is always a blend of poly or 100% polyester. Maybe I love Bernadette's arguments way too much to give up on sewing mostly with natural fibers, but damn... Sometimes I wish I lived somewhere else so I could buy with some other currency. BRL is the bane of my existence when it comes to conversion rates. Makes it impossible to even consider saving up enough to buy fabric from abroad.
Watching you design is like watching a magic show, no idea how you do it, but so satisfying. And all the pieces are so versatile. P.S. Your teal top looks so good that now I want to sew something teal. Too bad my projects list is already full.
Another (only somewhat plausible) explanation for the fancy lining might be that it is scraps that were put in only in the visible bits OR that it is some that got a bit damaged (water damage perhaps?) Though depending on the laundry practices, perhaps showing a fancy lining while the garment is airing in a somewhat visible location is seen as the height of conspicuous consumption. Idk, but it's fun to think about! (And now I want to wear big flowy pants with medieval-ish clothes)
I absolutely love how the pieces are designed to be layered together to keep warm in cold weather. It’s so practical, in particular because a real castle would usually have been a bit cold and drafty in winter even with many of the rooms having fireplaces to heat them.
This is fabulous! Again! Do this again! Everything from the digital design work to the chicken bocking, Lol. In case you missed it, I really enjoyed this :) Thank you
First time ever watching a video from this channel, I was bopping along till she yelled at the chicken on the fence, now instantly I HAVE to subscribe.
Happily overthinking anyone else's world but mine is where I have been for the past five years, now! 🤣 I'm so glad you're doing this. I've farmed out my historical and linguistic background to fellow writers, before. There's something deeply comforting about helping to manifest another person's vision, with their direct guidance. And it's true how it gives you a breadth and variety that doesn't happen when you're working for yourself, which seems to be largely a process of curation and of distilling down.
First video I've watched of yours, and I gotta say - I am more obsessed than Eminem is about Mariah! *waves goodbye to the time that is about to be spent watching all your videos*
This so beautiful! I love how much thought you put into it. I am now super invested in the travels and adventures of a fictional character that doesn't even exist on page yet. And I'm ready to forgive and forget all the mistakes she'll make in chapter 12 when meeting that charming scoundrel!
@@marquise5265 I’ll probably sew the clothes first and if she makes update videos I’ll send pics. No clue if I’m ever going to make the story available online but if I know people want to read it I just might. :)
I've been sewing for over 30 Years... I LOVE velvet! I have made several gowns of Velvet, with delicate hand embroidery. Love your skill with the comp!
It's so cool to see your work process with digitizing the capsule Wadrobe. Seeing how you use the features in illustrator to best create the designs is so cool! I always understood that illustrator can be good for consent lines and symmetry. But I never thought of how it can be used with its layering system to easily try out different looks when illustrating clothing on a figure. Wonderful video!
This kinda feels like it does double duty as a mini-worldbuilding video, even though most of those elements appear to be more story based rather than world building.
Every video is now a chicken video. This is your life now. Accept it. LOL! I always really loved the capsule videos, so I like this new spin on them. We, the viewers, still get to enjoy the thought process and results...but you get to step outside of what you felt was becoming too samey-samey, while helping someone who is in return helping you. Everyone wins!
Hey Mariah, I’m an author as well, I love the idea of a capsule wardrobe, I have too many eras to choose from. I tend write from early medieval to 1940s. So I’ve been piecing a wardrobe together for the past couple of years and wanting to sew some pieces myself.
The wide legged pants are what I picture when reading Wheel of Time and Robert Jordan describes "skirts divided for riding", something between a skirt and pants. I could be wrong about what he means, but that is what I picture.
You just might need to clip one of that hen's wings. I have a troublemaker like her. Lol Like trimming nails, clipping won't hurt her, but would most likely keep her off the fence and in safe bounds. I love these capsule wardrobe things. As a youth, we had an activity where we went "shopping" with an imaginary budget and had to create as many different outfits as possible. Literally nobody else thought of mixing and matching, so I won that challenge by a landslide. Haha
Yeah. I'm still working on that superpower. Growing up autistic, I didn't pay much attention to how I looked, so the easiest way to look 'put together' was to mostly wear one-piece garments. 😀 Now, being super into clothing, I'm instead dealing with wanting three very distinct silhouettes that don't have very much in common, even in the underlayers. Such is life.
I know it's not chicken focused and I Loved the capsule wardrobe, but we just got chickens for the first time this spring and I love seeing your chickens
Idk how I stumbled across this but so happy I did! Great video and I loved watching you sketch in Illustrator. I've never seen a capsule wardrobe design video, mostly just people building ones from their actual clothes.
Waaay off topic...and unasked for advice to do with what you will: After having chickens free roaming in a fence for many years, one of the ways to keep them in is to 1) build your fence bigger, which can be cost prohibitive, or 2) clipping the chickens wings. To do this, you don't ever cut flesh, only the feather below, making sure that you leave and inch or so below the wing flesh just to insure that the chicken is never harmed. Depending on the chicken, that can be 3 or 4 inches of feather. The idea is that they can never get enough lift to get them high enough to clear the fence. Most of the time this works well, but as feathers grow back, you will have to maintain it every couple of months or so. I have always just used a pair of sharp scissors for this--NOT my sewing scissors. :D
I found my way here by the adventure wardrobe. Subscribed for the chicken interruption... 😆 Seriously though, loved the planning and the digital design process.
My only quibble about any of your designs (which I love) is that while cloaks are magnificent to look at they are awfully impractical if the wearer has to do physical work in temperate climates, or facing the elements. With that said, I do hope/plan to discuss capsule wardrobes with you at some point.
This is amazing, I wholeheartedly admire your talent (and wish that a. you had more of this tier of your Patreon available and b. I had the spare cash to support you at said level!)
Absolutely love this. I've struggled a bit with costume design for characters because I haven't had a very clothing-oriented mind. Your videos, on both your channels, have REALLY helped to give me that perspective. It's useful for character design, and it's also another fun world building rabbit hole to explore!!
Wonderful! I love how much you considered the practicallities of the outfits, so many shows will not do that and it's always distracting to me. I personally don't have the money for your patreon, even if it was still available, but if you'd ever consider doing a video for a plus size woman/queer person that would be absolutely fantastic
That particular shade of purple/magenta representing the royal family was a good call, since historically that shade of purple dye was extremely expensive to manufacture, and thus was reserved for the upper classes
And since your going to the Asia for silk those pants could become harem pants by putting a drawstring in the bottom. That would put her worldly travels into her capsule. Just a thought.
While the princess herself probably wouldn’t travel there herself, there would _absolutely_ have to be a trade network in place that would transport ideas and fashions as well as physical goods.
A note about fancy linings: due to strict laws in men's fashion in Japan, the linings of their haori (jackets) got pretty dang fancy back in the Edo period or so. Give it a google sometime. Whole paintings were done on the inside back portion sometimes and it's really gorgeous. ovo
If these designs could be adapted to my size and color preferences, these would make an excellent wardrobe for going to SCA events or other Ren faires.
Have you ever considered selling your capsule wardrobe designs as colouring sheets? I would love to buy the outlines and then colour them in for my own personal colour palette
Never heard of/found broadcloth made out of a cheap cotton/poly. Where do you find this?! (For mockups & costumes). I've only ever found it in wool or a wool/poly. I have seen plenty of thin cheap felt made of cotton/poly or poly, but that's just for crafting really.
In every basic fabric store I’ve been to in the US, there is always a section in the cottons labeled “broadcloth” that is a thin, cheap polyester cotton blend.
