Just a quick question if you would, please. What type of fabric are you using for your costume? It looks so soft and drapes nicely. Is it cotton? Wool? Or a poly-blend?

The project is coming along beautifully and it's making me want to break out my needle and thread to try something out. Thanks!

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Doing a public reply for anyone wondering the same thing. The fabric is pure wool. It's a medium weight twill with a tight weave that pretty much doesn't fray, which is nice considering how much hemming I would have had to do otherwise !

The puffing fabric/lining is, afaik, mostly linen, possibly with some cotton percentage, I thrifted it so I'm not entirely sure. It's a great lining material, but stiffer fabric can be used for more efficient puffing on rounder rolls. Heavier silk is popular, from what I've seen.

There is some stiff cotton canvas interlining at the front, behind the eyelets of the lacing tabs on both the doublet and hosen.

Wool is recommended for this type of project because it has the hold to drape nicely but also because the weave has a nice stretch on the bias (diagonally). I cut my knee-length hosen on the bias so that it would stretch for comfort and movement. First time I did a pair of hosen, I did it with cotton because I was hoping to avoid heat, but it ended up being baggy in places and quite uncomfortable. I have another, less historical pair in progress that I'm making with a wool blend that has a tiny percent of elasthane, and that's the comfiest.

Trick or treat, please! Thank you!

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Aww thank you, I’d really hoped it wouldn’t come off as correcting you or being condescending I am just full of little meaty pockets of Carroll lore. How Doth The Little Crocodile is also a spoof poem based on one called something like How Doth The Busy Little Bee, from memory. The whole character of the Duchess is Carroll dunking on the Victorian tendency towards moralising and thinking that stories cannot be complete or fit for children unless they had a moral lesson in them.

Okay this will be a very very generic explanation, because I don’t know a lot about plate tectonics, but it actually is something I’ve explained to four year olds before. Usually in the context of earthquakes, so that’s what I’m going with here Hey [name]! You know how we had that big earthquake yesterday? You want to know something really cool? We don’t have any volcanoes near us (very important to lead with that if it’s applicable to prevent the kid from worrying about volcanoes/demanding to see a volcano), but the same thing that causes volcanoes causes earthquakes*! We live on a planet called Earth that’s shaped kind of like a ball, and in the middle of the ball is all the hot magma that comes out of volcanoes as lava (depending on the age of the kid, the magma/lava distinction is maybe unhelpful in the explanation). Magma is super super hot rocks, so hot they they melted and are a liquid like water! We live on what’s called the earth’s crust; that’s the outer bit of the planet that’s cooled down and turned solid (depending on the kid, pause here to talk about how different life would be if it wasn’t a solid; swimming to school, floating on the ground, etc). It’s kind of like the peel on an apple or an orange; the inside of the fruit is different than the outside.  The earth is different, though, because the crust of the earth is not one solid piece like the peel of an orange. The magma in the middle is moving around, and that means the crust moves (maybe pause here to get a bowl of water and like a leaf or something, and show how swirling the water makes the leaf move). Magma is a lot thicker than water, though, so it moves very very slowly. You know how [chocolate syrup/maple syrup/other liquid the kid knows] moves differently than water does? Magma is even thicker than that, and moves veeeerrrry veeerrrry slooooow (make a funny voice for that bit). That means the crust, the part we live on, moves too! The crust is very very big and split into a few different pieces so that it can move. Those pieces are called “plates” (pause here to talk about how silly it is that they are called plates and what the kid would name them, if they should be called bowls instead, etc if the kid is losing interest). We live very close to where two plates meet! Plates near each other can move in a few different ways (demonstrate with your hands). They can move apart, which makes those super deep underwater trenches where a bunch of cool weird animals live, or they can move together and both go up where they meet, which makes mountains. They can also move together and the edges of one goes under the edge of the other; that makes the under one start melting, which can cause volcanoes**! The one we live near is two plates sliding next to each other. They get stuck, and the magma under them makes them want to move, but they can’t because they are stuck! So the force of them wanting to move builds up and builds up until bang! They get unstuck and slide a little bit more! We feel that as an earthquake

Just finished it ten minutes ago. They better get a second season!