Hunting Tailors (Day 2 EA)

[Gabielle]

The older of the two looked up and smiled warmly, before nudging her daughter with an elbow. The girl looked up, apparently surprised by the appearance of customers, so intensely she'd been concentrating on her work.

Rising, the girl set aside her sewing, and curtsied tidily. Not the standard of a noblewoman, of course, but certainly graceful enough. "Welcome, how may I help?" she inquired, somewhat awkwardly.

[Liliane Marten]

"I have come for the tourney and have found myself wanting a more Southern style dress. I have been told something in the Dornish style was best?" she half-asked half-told them, "Is that manageable?"

[Leesa]

The girl watched Liliane intently as she spoke, seeming to concentrate. She nodded, and fetched a sheaf of papers loosely bound with thread. Each of the large pages had a drawing of dress, some showing multiple angles, others accompanied by sketches of details to showcase them better than the main drawing did.

She leafed quickly through, showing Liliane three designs: A high-waisted dress with detailed embroidery on the small cap sleeves, a fitted dress rich with embroidery and beadwork, and a dress with a deeply plunging neckline and draping sleeves.

[Liliane Marten]

"Hmmm, those are certainly daring. What do you think Mari?" she asked allowing the other woman to look at the designs.

[Mariessa Tremaine]

"Hmmm..." the Tremaine twin looked at the illustrations with a thoughtful smile.

"Personally, I would go for something like the first and third. I like the cut on the first, but the sleeves on the third add more elegance."

[Liliane Marten]

"Hmmmm, the third one is nice... It leaves me a little exposed," she chuckled, "I suppose that is the point though isn't it? Big draping sleeves are very pretty looking." She spent a moment glancing between the two, "I think the third pattern is our winner. Do you think silk or satin for it?"

[Leesa]

The girl had been peering at them with a sense of uncertainty, “we, we can change,” there was something very deliberate about the way she spoke, putting considerable effort into the pronunciation of each word. She opened a drawer, taking out a stick of charcoal and a new sheet of paper.

With flowing gestures, she began to draw: the new version was much like the first dress, the cap sleeves exchanged for the long draping ones, and the suggestion of embroidery on the bodice, emphasising that it, too, had quite a deep neckline, though not so daring as the other.

[Mariessa Tremaine]

Mari gave the girl a curious look, but who was she to say the girl was odd when she easily illustrated what Mari had had in mind!

"Yes," she nodded approvingly. "Exactly what I was thinking!"

She turned to Liliane. "Silk. The fabric is lighter and breathes better, also," Mari lowered her voice, "more durable."

[Liliane Marten]

"Well, light and airy is what we are after. Silk it shall be then."

She looked at the new sketch. "Oh! I like the idea of embroidery there. This is shaping up nicely."

[Mariessa Tremaine]

"Hm, yes," Mari murmured thoughtfully, looking between Liliane and the sketch. "This will look very pleasing on you. What sort of colors would you prefer? The colors of your House, perhaps, or something else?"