I wanted to give a shout out to the many people who have made my wonderful job so much easier over the years...many, many have been h-costumers. You all are such a great support group and a wealth of information!!! Many of our websites' visitors, subscribers, and students have been from this list. A large majority of our instructors and intern volunteers I met on this list. Some of you have loaned your collections or donated to go online in our Research Library.
Kathleen Mitchell has loaned us several books, given me a vast collection of 1st Communion photos, and sold me her collections of antique wedding photos and antique fashion magazines. She has been such a wonderful supportive person over the years. Something that I didn't learn in my college business law class was copyright laws. Boy, I really learned them with the discussions between Fran and RL Shep!!! Kimiko, you have to be the fastest person that I have ever seen at restoring antique fashion plates for me. Shirley Hobbs, a quiet lurker, was one of our first typist interns and is still with us. She typed almost all the fashion trends reports in our 1860s A Year in Fashion series and a lot of sections of the Costume Dictionary. Franchesca Havas has been a Costume Classroom instructor for so long that I have forgotten when she started. She knows more about gloves than anyone I have ever met. Many are h-costumers are perfectly preserved our Online Costume Balls. That was such a blast doing the ball with all of you. It was fun to see you try to guess who some of the others were. Sandy and Pierre I looked forward to your entries every year. Robin, I believe you are a walking costume encyclopedia and it was a joy to meet you at Costume-Con. It was also fun having Sandy and Pierre to stalk you at CC so that I could meet you in person...with standing up. Ann Wass was one of our instructors and I met her in person not long after I graduated from college. I have rarely met up with you when you were not in costume! A BIG thank you to Eliza for being such a wonderful list-mom to all of us for so many years. You are a costume saint! Gosh, so many fun memories and great times with h-costume. I could write a novel on the fun we have all had here! 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
