Guy is stupid enough to think that the Viscountess Michele is his friend. She's extremely put out that he is the new Heir to the Throne of the Far Isles and fought a fierce campaign against him in the year leading up to the announcement.

Out of persona (in "reality") we're good friends and signed each others' nominations to stand in the election for Head of Society. We both agreed i to stand if the other did as we didn't want an uncontested appointment. As, on the mundane side of being Head of Society, our policies and views are mostly interchangable, we concentrated on the fun of an in-persona campaign pitting a money-grabbing megalomaniac and clothes horse against a Renaissance airhead, idiot and clothes-horse.

My costume (as usual with anything of mine) is unfinished. The matching paned-sleeves for the silk doublet still need most of the silver braid sewn on, and the trunk-hose are missing their matching cotton-velvet panes and codpiece.... then there's the matching velvet jerkin which has been cut out for nearly 2 years (make that 3 years!!) now.

Miki's costume, by constrast, was finished in time and was made so that Guy and Michele could both be put out about wearing matching clothes (one of a series of "matching" sets we planned for that weekend.... I should really try to find a picture of her orange and pink outfit) so availablility of fabric in the right colours was far more of a consideration than the actual design.