For people who want a modern pattern which has a similar feel to the Herjolfnes coat, I can recommend the Sew Liberated "Lichen Duster" pattern (I made it out of heavyish pure linen). And has big pockets :)
4:34 "effective and stylish" cracked me up. It's a drizzly early spring day in Tasmania, and my daughter just left for college in an eighteenth-century short cloak made out of an old blanket made by the local woollen mill. She says it's the best thing for keeping off light rain without getting horribly humid underneath, and it keeps her book bag dry. Being bright red, it improves her safety as a pedestrian.
That’s a great one! I love a good pocket handkerchief. We’ve almost entirely eliminated paper tissues in our house. I bet they work a treat when you have to be outside a lot of you’ve got any pollen allergies!
I love this outfit, Liz! I recently aquired a sun sensitivity due to a medication (blech) and sunscreen no longer cuts it, so I've been making all kinds of beach-pajama-ish clothes to protect my skin. I love love love the Herjolfnes coat as a top layer!
Slippy fabrics are the bane of my existence when doing any and everything 😢. But I love the flowiness of this 30s pyjama set and it’s pretty amazing that the store owner could just tell exactly how much you needed looking at you 😮 that’s like a superpower
THANK YOU. I loved every minute of it, and I always feel so much smarter after videos like this (I had NO idea there was a fabric shop for beautiful materials like that so close to my home - now I have a solid reason to renew my passport...). I particularly appreciated the distinction you made between cultural appropriation in trying to copy another culture's regalia and using beautiful fabrics from another place for garments that are appropriate for one's own heritage and needs.
I appreciate your comments about that. I tried not to make it too much of a point because I didn’t wanna be a white lady going “good for me! I’m a super ally!”, when all I did was take some advice from a fabric seller, but I WAS conscious of it while making the outfit and writing the script. Another reason I didn’t use the third fabric for anything was because it has a small Boteh (paisley) motif on the border and I thought I’d rather use that in a more appropriate fashion item. I’m so glad you’re excited by Rokko! It was a great visit and I’m sure I’ll go back when I’m next in town.
Also, I’m flattered that you feel smarter after this video because in my head so was a little self-conscious that this one wasn’t as “academic” as stuff I normally do. So that pleases me endlessly. Thanks!
That coat looks like the perfekt model to use for a Snufkin cosplay! Even though I just googled and apparenty is clothes buttons at the back (?! my childhood is a lie) Edit. And the clasp looks so good! Much cooler than using just buttons.
Snufkin’s clothes button at the back?! That makes no sense from a characterisation perspective, because he doesn’t exactly have someone to help him with the buttons every day. I do believe his baby sister Little My also wears a dress that buttons at the back, but in her case it’s more understandable because she doesn’t live alone.
@@ragnkja I KNOW! It's insane! But I found a picture that I believe is from the tv-series where he sits on the porch railing and you can clearly see the buttons on his back. There is also one of the moomin mugs with him where you can see the buttons.
Confession time: had to look up this reference. But dang if you’re not absolutely correct! Honestly, just swapping the buttons for the back seam and closing the front seam would be eminently do-able with this pattern. I totally think you could manage. 👍👍👍
@@LizCapism Nordic children of the past several generations have grown up with the Moomins and their friends. I remember wanting “Little My hair” when I was six or so, because I thought it looked neat. Of course, my hair type isn’t really suited for that sort of updo, so I had to let go of that dream.
So many people I know went to Calgary Folk Fest, and I thought it sounded like such a good time. I'm still feeling apprehensive around crowd situations so I didn't go this year, but maybe next year! It looks like you were well prepared for the adventure!
It’s a lovely time! I’ve been going as often as I can (afford and feel safe) since I was a kid. That being said, it is a big loud crowd experience and while you can definitely find ways to make it chill, it’s worth thinking about how to best prepare. Additionally this year was a bit of a question for us given… *gestures broadly* but we made the calculation and brought masks for transactional or direct encounters. Hope you come next year!
I'm getting married this summer, and literally was like, what if I made formal beach pyjamas? So that's what I'm attempting, just with a few more modern things. I love 1930s styles and fusing them with current things like new fabrics and different details. I made a 1920s-1930s inspired swimsuit for example, but I made it have long legs because I wanted to try that, and I used spandex instead of wool. Swimming in wool sounds itchy, so the convenience of modern spandex was lovely. For my wedding, I'm using Tencel, which is a rayon that they had similar things to back then, but the bodice construction and pleating at the waist fit more with current styles, just the neckline I'm doing is very 1930s with a drapey almost sailor collar with V neck and V back.
wait, there is a coat in the book?! well i be damned. might need to add that to the list of things i want to make then, as i dont have a historical adequate coat (tho technically you could argue the old military coat of my stepdad kinda counts, but that doesnt fit the aesthetics). great to see you on here again, just yesterday i was wondering about you ^^
The whole team at that store was super helpful and I am always one to shout out helpful fabric salespeople! The number of bad experiences I have had with snobby shop owners (as well as my own retail experience) makes me super conscious of any good experiences and I always want to give them some love! ❤️
Oh, Huzzah, a Liz video. The day just got better. I'm afraid I default to vintage & historic quirks of fashion purely on a survival level. I'm very fair and full of Scottish freckles - end result being I start to burn in about 20 minutes (the 70's suntan lotions were neither effective nor kind). The best purchase I've ever made was a hand-strung Chinese sunbrella that, somehow, only cost 10$. It's been my summer go-to ever since and makes up part of my Ottawa Pride Parade regalia. Glad you got to enjoy the festival. Dhal-ling, you looked marvelous. Well done. - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
Oh, I 100% relate! I am pale enough to be practically see-through in the sun. Between that, and the sizeable amount of money I have spent on tattoos, it is always preferable for me to hide from the sun as much as possible. 😂
@@LizCapism Back in '99 I was lucky enough to work at the Ottawa Jazz Fest for CD & Souvenir coordinator (at that point, end of July). For ten days I was known as the quickly moving white wisp that moved from tree to tent to work office. 'Gilligan' hat an all. My joke is that I fluoresce under moonlight. The circling moths get a bit annoying, but I'm useful to have around if you're lost in the woods. Try using that one sometime. The kids eyes will widen with wonder...
Having grown up in a farming community where one's back-to-school farmers' tan was a competitive thing, it's to this day shocking to me that it's ever seen as a point of derision 😅 I mean, I understand it intellectually when I take the time to put it into socio-historical context, but it wasn't my experience among people whose opinion on the subject actually mattered. That said, this is not to say that the unfortunate light>dark ideal wasn't alive and apparent... it definitely was, but sun tans were not equated with it.
That’s fascinating to me! I remember it as a kid being a thing that was disliked - but in my day it wasn’t so directly associated with farmers (except in name). It was more like… “you’ve been out in the sun, but didn’t pay enough attention to your clothing to get proper ‘coverage’ for your tan.” It was a kind of “uncouth”-ness I guess? Like a failure to do the popular thing correctly. It’s as if it was OK to have it if you were a farmer, but if you weren’t a farmer you should get a different tan? I dunno - kids are weird. So definitely derided, and obviously the name comes from the supposedly “uncultured” farmer, but it was more detached from that origin and I didn’t really recognize it until years later.
Not sure these tips would have helped at the recent Splendor in the mud, ahem I mean grass. Whole festival was flooded, it wasn't great. Love the outfit though! And that fabric bundle colour selection was just spot on! Oh and I have a bit of a soft spot for those images in Aus.
Oh goodness that sounds stressful and mucky! Thanks! The Afternoon I spent at the seaside taking pictures was so lovely- I was happy to share them with you all!
I guess that three fabrics thing must be an Indian thing, my friend was in India on business and brought me back three bits of cotton in various weights, patterns and shades of purple and they were packaged as a set! I made a skirt out of one and I'm trying to figure out how to use the other two (one's a sheer and will be going over the other) but my first attempt at making a flowy skirt out of them made a flowy potato that's very unbecoming so I need to unpick it. Historybounding stuff that I've made and wear a lot include some medieval inspired rectangles and gores dresses I made out of plaid flannel, I wear them all winter as house dresses cause I finally found a hem length that's safe in my house (long hems and me and stairs are a bad plan). I've also got a house jacket with a capelet cause in trying to add ease, I effed up the neckline and it was too loose so the patching to fix it is hiding under a short capelet and it made me want to capelet everything. I even confused the hell out of a friend of mine who recently made me a super warm fuzzy winter skirt, by sending her a photo of me wearing it like a poncho... And I loathe bras so I'm exploring corsets and kirtles and supportive vests and stays as support garments. The spiral lacing linen kirtle pinafore has gone over well, no complaints from my mom on that one. And I've started implementing puffy sleeves on some of the patterns I've made a bunch of times, I might try it with polar fleece next sweatshirt! But the next ridiculous historybounding project is to make Mal's pretty floral bonnet from Firefly, to wear when I'm in plate mail cause my hair absorbs ALL THE SUNS and fries my brain, found some suiable fabric and everything!
What a kind way to ask! I’m not, unfortunately. Literally, I have a dentist appointment AND have to take a relative to the airport. But I hope you have a really great time!
