{"id":14,"date":"2011-02-02T01:40:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T01:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trystancraft.com\/sews\/?p=14"},"modified":"2024-03-06T14:12:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T22:12:54","slug":"leonard-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/2011\/02\/02\/leonard-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard \u2013 the beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a wild hair (hah!) to play Leonard Autie, hairdresser to Marie Antoinette, at the GBACG&#8217;s Petit Trianon event in July. Sarah will be the queen, Kendra will be Poliganc, and a bunch of our friends will be the rest of the court. When casting about for characters, I first thot Rose Bertin, but then, what&#8217;s more fun and OTT and ridiculous and, well, me? Cross-dressing as a big ol&#8217; fop a la the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/articles\/cc09-macaronis.html\">Macaronis<\/a> (which I&#8217;d wanted to make a costume of when I taught that class).<\/p>\n<p>Leonard&#8217;s autobiography is even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/recollectionsofl00lorich\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online for free<\/a>, so you know what I&#8217;ll be adding to my iPad tonight and maybe reading on the plane to Hawaii or Williamsburg.<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple lengths of purple silk in The Stash that I&#8217;d had a hankering to make into 18th-c. menswear for me. I have some patterns and of course books. I wish I had those purple-fuchsia shoes Leonard wears in the movie! Oh well. I will TOTALLY make a giant white pouf wig &#8212; that excites me no end!!! And I&#8217;ll wear a shit-ton of foptastic makeup. Hells yeah.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/suit-fabric.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-19 size-medium\" title=\"Leonard's suit fabric\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/suit-fabric.jpg?resize=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Leonard's suit fabric\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/suit-fabric.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/suit-fabric.jpg?w=375&amp;ssl=1 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leonard&#8217;s suit fabric<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Later that day&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\nFabric Stash iPhone app is evil &#8212; I just noticed that I have a bunch of powder blue damask earmarked for a different high-concept costume. Well now, that *plus* the purple\/lavender silks would be just the most awesomely faggy (in the most complimentary sense) 18th-century boy clothes evar.<\/p>\n<p>And I really need to look at the preset embroidery motifs my mom&#8217;s machine can do (she sent me the PDF ages ago). Because I wonder if we could string together some of those floral designs into a fat border along the waistcoat edge&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>For reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Screencaps from the &#8220;Marie Antoinette&#8221; movie version of Leonard &#8212; not that I&#8217;m recreating this costume, but it&#8217;s interesting. He is introduced right after the &#8220;I Want Candy&#8221; scene, and Leonard fits the queen with her tallest wig to date.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28\" style=\"width: 568px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/movieleo-leofront.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-28 size-full\" title=\"movieleo-leofront\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/movieleo-leofront.jpg?resize=558%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Leonard - Marie-Antonette screencap\" width=\"558\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/movieleo-leofront.jpg?w=558&amp;ssl=1 558w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/movieleo-leofront.jpg?resize=279%2C300&amp;ssl=1 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nice foppish suit in pinks and purples with tons of trim.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_24\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/movieleo-leomahair.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-24 size-full\" title=\"movieleo-leomahair\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/movieleo-leomahair.jpg?resize=600%2C404&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Leonard - Marie Antoinette movie screencap\" width=\"600\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/movieleo-leomahair.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/movieleo-leomahair.jpg?resize=300%2C202&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marie Antoinette and Leonard &#8212; Note how his wig is as tall as hers!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_29\" style=\"width: 363px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/movieleo-leohairside.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-29 size-full\" title=\"movieleo-leohairside\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/movieleo-leohairside.jpg?resize=353%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Leonard - Marie-Antonette screencap\" width=\"353\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/movieleo-leohairside.jpg?w=353&amp;ssl=1 353w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/movieleo-leohairside.jpg?resize=176%2C300&amp;ssl=1 176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Details of his wig curls.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_30\" style=\"width: 343px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/movieleo-leohairback.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-30 size-full\" title=\"movieleo-leohairback\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/movieleo-leohairback.jpg?resize=333%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Leonard - Marie-Antonette screencap\" width=\"333\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/movieleo-leohairback.jpg?w=333&amp;ssl=1 333w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/movieleo-leohairback.jpg?resize=166%2C300&amp;ssl=1 166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interesting that he does not have a bag over his wig&#8217;s tail (which would have been quite fashionable).<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_31\" style=\"width: 592px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/movieleo-leofacecls.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-31 size-full\" title=\"movieleo-leofacecls\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/movieleo-leofacecls.jpg?resize=582%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Leonard - Marie-Antonette screencap\" width=\"582\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/movieleo-leofacecls.jpg?w=582&amp;ssl=1 582w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/movieleo-leofacecls.jpg?resize=291%2C300&amp;ssl=1 291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wearing a bit of makeup.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a wild hair (hah!) to play Leonard Autie, hairdresser to Marie Antoinette, at the GBACG&#8217;s Petit Trianon event in July. 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