Thank you Carol. I did the h-costume directory in 1997 or 1998. I had forgotten all about the directory. That was fun! It is so hard to believe it has been 15 years online for my business. My daughter Katie was 4 years old when I started my business. She would fall asleep in my lap while I was on the computer. Now she is in college.
Drea Leed started her website just after mine. Costumes.org was after Drea's. Julie Zetterburg Sardo of The Costume Page and I finally met at the last Costume-Con. We talked about what were the first mega costume history websites. Hers was the first site. Mine was third or fourth. I can't tell you how excited I was to meet Julie after talking online for so many years. I also finally got to meet h-costumers old timers Sandy & Pierre and Robin at the same Costume-Con!!! What a blast! So who are the old-timers on h-costume that are still here? What year did you join h-costume? I joined in 1995 while taking my costume history classes in college. I was so excited to find out there were people all over the world who loved costume history. Today I guess people a lot of people do not understand how little about historic costuming was online in the mid-1990s. H-costume was the only email list that I could find around the time. Oher lists followed h-costume like Vintage clothing, f-costume (fantasy) and h-needlework (historic). F-costume is still around on yahoogroups and h-needlework is on ansteorra.org. I miss some of the h-costumer old-timers who are not on the list anymore like RL Shep, Margo, and Teddy. I can't tell you what an important part of my education that h-costumers played in my life. Shep used to give me so much good advice about publishing in this area. Thank you to all h-costumers for 16 years of learning and friendship! Penny Ladnier, owner The Costume Gallery Websites www.costumegallery.com 14 websites of fashion, costume, and textile history _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
