Fabric Dilemma

[mmcnealy]

Caramel Velvet or Chocolate Merino ?

The dress fabric is sort of this color, a little darker and more rich into the golden greens, with slubbed threads in it every once in a while, so that it looks like a heavy silk, but its not.
The brown fabric would be used for guards and accents on the bodice, shoulder treatments and skirt details. Its supposed to be a middle class dress, and I am trying to keep it as middle as possible, but the velvet looks so good with the green fabric. *sigh*

An added consideration is the velvet is about $12 a yard and the wool is $9 AND I have a discount coupon on the wool

Can you use velvet for trim detail on middle class?

Comments

[ashariel.livejournal.com]

on a dog-poor middle class outfit? no - but if your middle class person was a merchant or perhaps a servant to a noble, small bits of velvet would probably be okay, especially since they would probably be secondhand :)

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

When I think of dog-poor I think peasent, not middle class. Having once been dog-poor I think I can say this.

No, this is a middle class merchant's daughter's outfit, our father is a imported cloth merchant, specializing in cloth from Germany and Italy, which includes silks and satins. Of course due to sumptuary laws we can't get away with wearing much of the good stuff, but still...

[ashariel.livejournal.com]

yeah, that's true...I was thinking more of lower-middle class. But from the description of the persona, I don't think bits of velvet trim would be a stretch for your garb.