Monday, March 16, 2009

Appropo Sewing

Diana did a class this last term called "Reinventing Yourself" and this was her final project.

It was basically a sewing class, and you had to create a dress and a story to go with it, from medieval times.

As you can see here, her dress is red. Red was not a common color for peasants to be able to wear. So apparently, in her paper, Diana (Blanche) talks about how she won the 'favor' of a local lord, who bought her bread regularly, gave her red fabric, and also bought her a real bed. "Favors" indeed!

Also in the story, she described the death of her parents, and her husband (plague) and that she has a 2-year-old son (who will eventually die in the Hundred Years' War).

So, here's a photo of Blanche, the skank. And the butcher girl in her green dress, who did NOT have the favor of a lord, but apparently had to wear icky colors & sleep on the floor of her shop.

4 comments:

flyingvan said...

sAll hail, Blanche the skank!!

keeka said...

ok, you need to be clearer dear sistol, is Blanche the Skank in real life or only in her story?
I mean I have never heard you mention a Blanche, is she a friend of Diana's? If so why would she hang with a skanK?

keeka said...

by the way, I should have said, "good job" to Diana, her dress lookes pretty darn good!

Oh, tell Lee to read his blog I posted on the last one. Pretty funny.

Tina said...

Diana's character for her class, Reinventing Yourself is "Blanche."

I'm the one who is calling her a skank :P