Lets do some looking at outfits

[Scarlet Angel]

This lovely lady is Miz Annie Ross...Tensleep's other half....She does an outstanding job of representing any timeline she chooses!

[Skeeter Lewis]

Del, where the heck are you?

[Delmonico]

I'm here, been working on a couple other projects, but I still have more pictures.

This is a couple who came to Rock Creek Station last year, she does basket weaving and they wanted to have the look with out spending too much money, the hat cost the lady almost as much as the skirt and blouse di, but she had shoes already that would work, less than $200 with the hat.  Her husband had a pair of round toed boots already, $35 on thepants, $25 on the shirt and $30 on the palm leaf hat.  He bought a fairly large one because he needed protection from the sun, a "Pork Pie: type one might have had a better look, but not a bad set up for a first trip out:







They were fun to work with, both setting them up in clothes and to spend the weekend with, looking forward to seeing them there this year.

['Monterrey' Jack Brass]

Below is a ferrotype of me and my lady Maria from last summer at Gibson's in Gettysburg. Rob enjoyed making the image as he usually doesn't deal with 1870s types who bring in their own clothes for pictures - he's usually dealing with CW images. It was a great period experience and a lot of fun having the image made together, and as it was a bright day only took a seven second exposure on the wet-plate camera. Hard to see in the picture but Maria's reticule and one of her original fans in on the table, my Family Heirloom Weavers repro carpet bag is underneath it by my feet.

My outfit is just a run of the mill brown with woven window pane wool sack suit, proper Robert Land lace-up shoes and a Clearwater Hats low crown bowler. However, Maria's outfit turned out really nice and was a great sewing project that captures the mid-1870s fashion of walking dress pretty well – short overskirt, long underskirt, representative collared bodice and a decent underskirt train though that can't be seen in the image. Since the picture was made I added throg closures to the bodice and a series of bows to the sides of the over skirt so now it's officially complete. We made the dress and petticoat from Ageless Patterns patterns. the dress is made from quite heavy brown cotton with very thin woven window panes of violet, lighter brown and indigo (almost a sort of plaid but not quite). The sleeves needed some re-work as the pattern was a bit off (or I was off when I cut the fabric – likely more my error than the pattern's...!).

Maria's boots are Robert Land lady's lace-ups, though button-up would be even better. Her hat is a black 100% wool felt that I reshaped for the right period pronounced fore/aft curvature with a knife-pleated hat band made from the same fabric as her dress. She has one of her favorite period hat pins, with a decorative silver head, holding on her hat. Next projects are a house dress, an 1878-82 era walking dress (no bustle on these), a couple of common dresses and an apron or two for camp. We're having fun making her stuff and are currently embarking on a wool coat – takes a lot of wool for the pattern we have and think it will come out nice.

Here is the ferrotype from Gibson's studio showing Maria's outfit to good effect:


Here is a sample of her dress fabric which matches up as close as we could get it to several fabrics we've seen in period images. As her dress is not available right now for me to photograph in color here's a swatch of it. I used to as a background for one of Maria's cameos and my cameo tie stick-pin for display in the library. Hope it comes out well enough to see to fabric colors.


YMH&OS,

Brass

[Irish Dave]

Outstanding, as always, Brass.

[Ottawa Creek Bill]

This was taken in 2004 for a magazine article....It's a cut out that was sent to me by a friend. I don't remember where or for what magazine...I was a little under the weather and not in a very good mood.   But it does give a good description of what I am wearing.

Bill

[HorsePen Henry]

Here's some of me in my outfit. My daughter shot me with her new camera. It has a sepia tone setting on it somehow. She knows how to use it.







We're havin' fun with it,
Horse Pen

[Delmonico]

Good looking outfit.

[Wild Bill Blackerby]

Howdy Del, long time.

Here are two tintypes I had taken by different photographers, both wearing one of my favorite outfits.  I've had the vest for many many years, wish I could find a few others like it.





Need to get one taken this year in my good frock coat.

[Delmonico]

Looks dang good.  Glad to see you around again.

[Ottawa Creek Bill]

Wild Bill......Looks Great!! You look like you just stepped out of the 19th century.....Man, we need you in NCOWS,,,,,!! Pronto

Bill

[Silver Creek Slim]

Nice pictures, Wild Bill.

Slim

[Silver Creek Slim]

Will Bill, I found another one. 

Slim

[Trinity]

Heyyyyyy, it's Miss AnnieLee!!

[Delmonico]

Will Bill, I found another one. 

Slim

Thank you Slim, I had not seen that one.

[Texas Lawdog]

Great Picture, Slim!

[Silver Creek Slim]

You are very welcome.

Slim

[Wild Bill Blackerby]

Yep, that's me and my darlin' Miss Annie Lee - we met up down in MD at the Regional and Ida Mae and I were lucky to know her for a few years before her passing.  So sad, so young.

Thanx for posting it Slim, I take it you've been to the photo site.

Bill - my love of the 19th Century and all things western is one I've had all my life.  SASS was a great way for me to enjoy living it out here on the east coast, there are no NCOWS groups here.  It's one of the things I miss living out here instead of the mid-west.

[Wild Bill Blackerby]

Well it's nice out today so I thought I'd get a photo with my new frock coat.  Got it last year and only wore it once, of course it's wool so a little warm in the summer months.
Left out the sash I usually wear shooting, figured the coat is red enuff.

[Delmonico]

Well Mr. Blackerberry, I want you to know yer not the only one that cleans up well.  BTW if I look a bit younger in the picture, it's because I am, my wife wants me to get another one done sometime, this is from 2001 and none of the grey in my hair had started:







Somewhere I have a copy of this that Annie Lee photo shopped into a Snidley Whiplash type villian.