vintage/faded silk chiffon?
Mar. 9th, 2007 01:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alonewiththemoonSort of a long shot, but I thought it might be worth asking here:
I'm looking for pieces of vintage/faded black chiffon, preferably silk, to use in costuming to match an overskirt that I recycled out of a 1940s silk nightgown/lingerie piece that was completely unraveling at the seams (I'm wearing the overskirt in my profile pic, but I doubt you can really see it with the black background). Size and shape of the fabric pieces/garment are not that important as I'm likely to be chopping them up anyway, though some pieces that are at least 36" long would be nice. Doesn't have to be actually vintage, either--that dress that sat in the sun for too long or went in the washing machine a few too many times would be just fine too, as are tattered edges and seams.
I'm scouring ebay/the internet, but the thing is that while I am certainly willing to pay for my old fabric, I don't want to pay a lot of money to chop up a perfectly fine vintage garment (I can see some of you shuddering now! :-) and people don't seem to sell their junk. If it comes down to it, I may end up buying new chiffon and leaving it outside for a couple of months...
I'm looking for pieces of vintage/faded black chiffon, preferably silk, to use in costuming to match an overskirt that I recycled out of a 1940s silk nightgown/lingerie piece that was completely unraveling at the seams (I'm wearing the overskirt in my profile pic, but I doubt you can really see it with the black background). Size and shape of the fabric pieces/garment are not that important as I'm likely to be chopping them up anyway, though some pieces that are at least 36" long would be nice. Doesn't have to be actually vintage, either--that dress that sat in the sun for too long or went in the washing machine a few too many times would be just fine too, as are tattered edges and seams.
I'm scouring ebay/the internet, but the thing is that while I am certainly willing to pay for my old fabric, I don't want to pay a lot of money to chop up a perfectly fine vintage garment (I can see some of you shuddering now! :-) and people don't seem to sell their junk. If it comes down to it, I may end up buying new chiffon and leaving it outside for a couple of months...
