Mar. 19th, 2009

gurdymonkey: (Default)
Emergency road work. Down the street.

It STARTED at 10:35 PM last night.

Musings

Mar. 19th, 2009 03:21 pm
gurdymonkey: (mysca)
Crown is this Saturday. (The Usual Suspects beating each other with rattan at The Usual Venue to the sound of rice being dried.) So is another charity gala where I can be warm, dry, plied with a gin and tonic or two and make what passes for an attempt at being glamorous. (Hell, yes!) They are in opposite directions. This means day-tripping up and back. Early. As in bugging out of Woodland 3-ish.

The current forecast according to Weather.com is for "Few Showers" and a high in the low/mid 60's. The obvious, most practical choice is Japanese, which means I can show off the mokume shibori kosode. (Though there is a perverse inner voice lobbying for male drag involving the rust stripes and the blue and white "wave" hakama, a combination sufficiently obnoxious for the kyogen equivalent of Arlecchino.)

As I am neither a Queen's Artisan or a Barony, I do not need to concern myself about Displaying Schtuff (TM). Well, other than what is on my back.  I did consider declaring for the Barony of the Far West, but it just confuses Godrich and traveling light this weekend is the smart course anyway.

Hmm. I sound jaded. Well, yeah, maybe: three crown tourneys a year tend to blur, particularly when the same people keep winning. And I miss my Rising Sun peeps.
gurdymonkey: (bradshaw)
I stumbled upon this program on one of the local PBS affiliates this evening, about 15 minutes into the broadcast. Colleen Quen and Jude Gabbard, two young Bay Area fashion designers, visited rural Guizhou Province, learning about embroidery, batik resist dyeying, silversmithing and other elements of the traditional dress of the native Buyi and Miao villagers.

Photo from the San Francisco Chronicle at http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2008/03/02/lv_stylematters.jpg

Check out this link from the production company, D3 for additional photos and information. http://www.d3mediagroup.com/programs/fashion.htm

And then they came home and did this: http://www.ibabuzz.com/fashion/2008/03/09/ancient-chinese-fashion-with-a-modern-twist/

Is it good? Is it bad? Is it inspired? Love it or hate it (and I do like some of these even as others make me scratch my head and wonder what planet they came from), you have to admit it illustrates how different people will look at the same thing and get completely different ideas from it.

I can see I'm going to have to do something about the Yuan robe "dress" concept at some point. (Red silk, maybe?)

Spring 2009 airtimes of this documentary can be found here: 
http://www.d3mediagroup.com/programs/airing_schedules/iacfschedule.htm

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