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Arwen's Outfit is a little
more complicated. Most of her outfits are of a similar
style, appearing to be an underdress with the lovely flowing
sleeves, with a sleeveless overdress. Both have lovely trim
detailing with the trim being quite wide on the underdress
and thinner on the overdress.
This was definately more of a fantasy dress, so I did not
even try to make this rewearable as SCA garb.
Materials: What joy! the
overdress looks mysteriously like panne velvet. I had some
dark purple panne velvet in my stash. I bought this seven
years ago, intending to make a costume for a SF convention
but never got around to it. I had just enough to make the
under and overdress (with 30cm to spare!).
Sleeves: I managed to get
some silver chiffon on sale. I wondered on how to make them
and thought of a square with the corner cut out. This would
still give the length but not near the hand, so the sleeves
were useable. This also made best use of the small amount of
material I had. It was after I made them, that I remembered
a sketch off The Two Towers which, as a happy
circumstance, has a similar appearance to the cut of the
sleeves. Oh joy, again.
Trim: Time was running
out... I wanted a texture to the braid, as seen in the top
picture from Return of the King. This was not an easy
task. I needed trim at least an inch wide for the under
dress, and a thinner trim of similar colour for the
overdress. Time was running out. I did a quick shop, my
daughter in tow. There was no wide trim in silver, but a
nice 1.5cm wide trim (below R). However, as luck would have
it, found some plain trim (below L) I could double up to get
the width, with a nice grey-silver trim (below Centre) to go
on top.
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This gave a nice texture and width
required for the underdress trim. So what
followed was a lot of handsewing...
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Right: The finished trim...
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Images from Return of the King.
My version of sleeves...
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