Xmas Idea 2008

Slraep said:
What are the designers smoking at Chanel lately?? Just how many logos can they incorporate into a ring before it starts looking like less of a ring and more of a logo in the shape of a ring? Well, they came up with this...
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Congratulations to Chanel for managing to make a SSP ugly. :(
 
Sheri-- just saw your picture-filled post-- and boy was I surprised! I have admired your corsets for ages! I came across your web page a couple of years ago, and I have read a bunch of your reviews on the GBACG Great Pattern Review. I love your work! Sometimes even the internet is a small world :)
 
elisa said:
Sheri-- just saw your picture-filled post-- and boy was I surprised! I have admired your corsets for ages! I came across your web page a couple of years ago, and I have read a bunch of your reviews on the GBACG Great Pattern Review. I love your work! Sometimes even the internet is a small world :)
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Very small world indeed, Elisa, particularly since I see you're in London!

And yes, GemGeek, that is a camo corset...made for a Steampunk convention I sold at in October...glad you like it!

Definitely need to come up with something pearl-encrusted that will be worthy of this site. Perhaps a project for the new year.

Sheri
 
la_corsetiere said:
I LOVE that spikey wing collar thingie...I could definitely see myself wearing something like that.

Haven't looked at this post since the initial Christmas tree, but I see that my name has actually come up once or twice, so I feel the compulsion to reveal that not only am I a slightly freaky six-foot-tall tattooed person, and a lowly beader, but also a historical costumer and bonafide corsetiere. My favorite costuming eras are 18th century and tiny-waisted Victorian, but I really love mixing up the historical and fantasy influence. I've used pearls (fake) in some renaissance costumes...will definitely use the real thing next time around. My husband tells me I must figure out how to incorporate pearls into my corsets so I can write off trips to Tahiti...gotta work on that...

Sheri
www.jurneckacreations.com
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Stunning! Just stunning! ...and the costumes and corsets are delightful as well.......
 
Hi Sheri - sorry to blow your corsetiere cover, but truly I am glad everyone is enjoying seeing your amazing pieces. And I'm not surprised that elisa has already found your webpage, either.. BUT WHERE ARE THE PEARLS??
I thought of you recently when my beautiful daughter and her friends (bless the values and morals passed on to them all by their mothers) went to a party recently dressed in very little else but pretty corsets.. all in the name of some boy's sixteenth...
 
Hi Nerida - What a great image. ;) That's one happy 16 year old boy.

Sheri - I took another stroll through your site. What beautiful work you do. I've spent some time building costumes, so know just how much goes into what you do. Can't wait to see what you do with pearls in that context!
 
Thanks to all for your kind and flattering comments (bear in mind that some of those photos are 10+ years old...) - I'll definitely resolve to make something spectacular with pearls in 2009 - really got inspired by some of the historical costumes I saw at the Robert Wan pearl museum in Tahiti. Though I think I'll go for something whimsical and fantastic...a pearl fairy, perhaps...

Sheri
 
Sheri - look forward to seeing what you come up with! But please have some bats and spiders around, too..

Heidi said:
Hi Nerida - What a great image. ;) That's one happy 16 year old boy.

Heidi - I think that was the point. The theme of the party was "how did you get past your parents dressed like THAT"... kind of makes for a whole bunch of happy 16 year old boys, I think!
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la_corsetiere said:
My favorite costuming eras are 18th century and tiny-waisted Victorian, but I really love mixing up the historical and fantasy influence.
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Not really relevant to the name of this thread, but I remembered Sheri's post about her interest in historical costume. I thought that this might be the right place to introduce you all to the work of my friend Avigail. We studied art history together ages ago.....
One can't be indifferent to these unique pieces.

http://www.annabrahms.com/
 
What a talent!
 
Your friend does amazing work, Nora! Such expressive faces. I did some historical costuming on vintage 1960's trolls a while back - a rather challenging body type to work with! Thanks so much for sharing.

Sheri
 
la_corsetiere said:
And if anyone out there is in the market for a nice custom-made corset, perhaps even pearl-encrusted, you know who to contact!
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Not when you are across the pond! :p

Being a very cuddly Coke can, the only way to give myself a decent waist for formal clothes without eating rabbit food or sweat myself silly in the gym, is to wear a corset :rolleyes:

The proper ones with steel bone inserts will make me look a bit more like a Coke bottle instantly :D

I made enquiries about having one made to measure, and it would cost around 300 GBP for a plain one :rolleyes:

Shelving that idea for a while, and I shall make do with good quality ready made ones for the time being instead :)

DK :)
 
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