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Category: Dicken’s Fair

Dicken's Fair, Meditations, Nineteenth Century, Renaissance Spain, SCA

Stir crazy

December 7, 2018December 7, 2018by notanothercostumingblog3 Comments on Stir crazy

Officially diagnosed with tendonitis in both forearms! Fun! Cool! Great! Yeah no, I'm about half an inch away from losing my mind especially now that my wrists mostly aren't hurting. It makes it much harder to not use them, but I know I shouldn't. (Weird aside-- turns out taking 4 Advil liquigels a day makes [...]

Dicken's Fair, Nineteenth Century

The floof has grown

November 20, 2018by notanothercostumingblog2 Comments on The floof has grown

A couple weeks ago, encouraged by my boss and an acquaintance who works Dickens, I decided that: a) I could in fact wear a black bonnet with an ecru printed dress and b) I should make a day cap to go under it. I pretty much ad-libed the whole thing based on diagrams of 1856 [...]

Dicken's Fair, Millinery, Nineteenth Century

Dickens Round II

October 31, 2018by notanothercostumingblogLeave a Comment on Dickens Round II

The second historical costume I ever made and the second historical costuming event I ever attended was the Great Dickens Christmas Fair, late last November.  For those who aren't familiar with it, Dickens is a little like Ren Faire but for the 1830s-1860s.  Last year I did 1856 as best as I could with the [...]

Dicken's Fair, Nineteenth Century

Lacis Does Dickens

November 29, 2017November 8, 2018by notanothercostumingblogLeave a Comment on Lacis Does Dickens

This Sunday I went to the San Francisco Great Dickens Christmas Fair with my Lacis co-workers, and it was lots of fun!  I grew up going to Ren Faire but I had never been to Dickens before and honestly I prefer Dickens.... For one thing the Northern California Ren Faire is at Casa De Fruta [...]

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