Gazer’s Fashion

A short post about the handmade skirt that I have had to create for the character The Gazer, a peacock in Dave Campton’s The Cagebirds.

 

For The Gazer’s skirt I wanted to give a sense of  elegance, but still making her look sort of like a showgirl, but overall, giving the effect of an actual peacocks plumage when its draped behind them like a train on a ballroom skirt or wedding dress. Traditionally “The train was a detachable piece of fabric that tied at the waist. Although but one layer among many, it was extra long…The fabric usage for skirts was extraordinary and having a skirt with 3.5 yards around the hem was not unusual.” (Condra, Jill and Anita A. Stamper, 2011, Clothing Through American History: The Civil War Through the Gilded Age, 1861 – 1899, California: ABC-CLIO).

Here is some examples seen below…

train

Skirt Train

peacock

Peacock with his tail down, trailing behind him

 

See Slideshow for Images of  the final product of The Gazer’s skirt, standing alone without the matching fascinator, top or accessories…

(Front of Skirt ) Simple at the front very much like an actual peacock, the eyes and fasciantor being the center of attention from the front.

(Back of Skirt) The central fabric of peacock print curves out from behind so when the actress playing the character walks, it drags along behind, fanning out giving the illusion of grandeur and mimicking the actual tail of a real peacock.

 

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