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Jun. 24th, 2005 11:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyspriteDamnit. Damnit, damnit, damnit.
It's been forever and a day since I've had a chance to play in a weekend-long LARP. I miss the intense roleplaying, I miss the immersion, I miss the people, I miss everything. And in about three weeks, there's a really amazing game coming up. I've missed so many due to schedule, but I had finally managed to arrange my life and my schedule so that I could go.
Oh, well.
It's set in the Victorian era. I have costuming for just about every time period from 1100 to 1850, and from 1920 forward, give or take, but nothing in between. And my costume source just backed out on me. For perfectly legitemate and understandable reasons, and I can't be mad at her, but just the same this leaves me utterly and completely unprepared, three weeks out.
No costume, no game. From what I've been told, this is a game with fairly high production values, and I don't think showing up in jeans and a T-shirt would be looked upon kindly. And I don't have the time to learn how to make the costume for myself. Hell, I don't even have a particularly good idea of what the costume should be - all the references I can find just show upper-class party clothes, not lower-class work clothes. So I doubt I could even rent or buy something, even if I could afford it - my experience with costume rental places is that they tend more towards the fancy.
No Brassy's Men for me, damnit. And I was really, really, REALLY looking forward to it. I know that, in the grand scheme of things, this is a minor problem and that I really have no right to whine, but... it's my journal, and I feel whiny right now.
And the sleeves on my camicia are probably uneven. And there are still dishes to be done, and the handle on my basket for tomorrow broke, and Word is foiling my every attempt to write up a set of notes for teaching tomorrow, and I never got my ice cream.
I want a do-over on today.
It's been forever and a day since I've had a chance to play in a weekend-long LARP. I miss the intense roleplaying, I miss the immersion, I miss the people, I miss everything. And in about three weeks, there's a really amazing game coming up. I've missed so many due to schedule, but I had finally managed to arrange my life and my schedule so that I could go.
Oh, well.
It's set in the Victorian era. I have costuming for just about every time period from 1100 to 1850, and from 1920 forward, give or take, but nothing in between. And my costume source just backed out on me. For perfectly legitemate and understandable reasons, and I can't be mad at her, but just the same this leaves me utterly and completely unprepared, three weeks out.
No costume, no game. From what I've been told, this is a game with fairly high production values, and I don't think showing up in jeans and a T-shirt would be looked upon kindly. And I don't have the time to learn how to make the costume for myself. Hell, I don't even have a particularly good idea of what the costume should be - all the references I can find just show upper-class party clothes, not lower-class work clothes. So I doubt I could even rent or buy something, even if I could afford it - my experience with costume rental places is that they tend more towards the fancy.
No Brassy's Men for me, damnit. And I was really, really, REALLY looking forward to it. I know that, in the grand scheme of things, this is a minor problem and that I really have no right to whine, but... it's my journal, and I feel whiny right now.
And the sleeves on my camicia are probably uneven. And there are still dishes to be done, and the handle on my basket for tomorrow broke, and Word is foiling my every attempt to write up a set of notes for teaching tomorrow, and I never got my ice cream.
I want a do-over on today.
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Date: 2005-06-26 10:52 pm (UTC)What I have is a bunch of 1300's-to-1550's-era English dresses, two 1850's ballgowns (complete with hoops), and a flapper dress. None of them particularly appropriate for the setting or the character, unfortunately.
I'm going to spend tomorrow trying to hunt down a decent skirt and blouse - I won't give up quite so easy now that I know options exist. But wearing what I have isn't really an option....