Costume Con 29 is over. And I won major awards with the Civil War era dress of Sarah Ballou, in a historical presentation we called "The Letter". At some point I may be able to put up video ofi t, but I must say that we pretty much had everyone in the audience in tears (even the tech crew got weepy at our rehearsal, and that was without the costumes on). I want to thank everyone on the H-costume list for their knowledgeable answers to my many questions over the past 12 months, and I want to thank all the folks at the "Ladies & Gentlemen of the 1860's" conference in March of 2011 as well, for a conference that really got me thinking and was very illuminating. My reserach that I wrote up as the documentation for the costume, will be published later this year in the "Virtual Costumer:" online costume magazine. I have an article in an issue from last year, about re-creating my great-grandmother's first day dress from about 1896. The magazine's older issues are open to the public, and the current issue is password-protected for about the first month.
http://www.siwcostumers.org/vc_current-issue.html There will also be photos of that costume, and my Fantasy and SF Masquerade costume "Mistress of All Hallows" up on Costume Gallery. Thank you all again, and I really enjoy the discussions. Yours in costuming, Lisa a _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
