> She did violence to a number of Vecellio's images--I actually used Wilcox > to make my very first "Renaissance" costume in high school and years later > found out that the image I used was Vecellio's imperfect interpretation of > the previous century re-drawn with "improvements" by Wilcox. Needless to > say, it was several degrees of separation from accuracy. Luckily that > costume was long since taken apart and made into something else!
Back in 1971 when I joined the SCA "nobody" had Janet Arnold. But thanks to (I think) Dover, we could get Wilcox. I remember relying on it heavily when I had nothing but that and my tattered copy of Davenport. After a while I learned what was what, and what wasn't, but it took years. Nowadays I don't even recommend Wilcox as an overview, tho I do still have a copy of it. I dumped my copy of Peacock as useless, and wonder why I ever bought it. At least the illustrations in Wilcox are fun. -- Carolyn Kayta Barrows -- “The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.” -William Gibson -- _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
