RE: [h-cost] Good News
May I recommend Elizabethan with pearl work? or this in Italian http://www.fabric.com/cotton-velvet-fabric-coral-stria.aspx -Original Message- I have to brag! It seem that I won this weeks $100 Shopping Spree at Fabric.Com. Still in shock and now I have to figure out what to spend it on. I've got a dozen ideas all screaming at me. Do I remake, The Baby Blue Cavalier (Remember the first one Regina?) or make some new Renn Faire clothes in real silk and cotton velvet. Or they have some real red silk for a drop dead Byzantine and use up all those pearls that my bead freak Mother keeps giving me, not that I'm complaining. There is the Celery and Violet Bengaline that would make a great 1770's suit embrodierd in Ribbons ala Bjarne. And let's not even look at the wools, I need a new 1840's great coat in a LOUD plaid. They have orange and pink velvet for some thing Teddy might wear. AND AND AND HELP The shell shocked Stephen Bergdahl ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Suggestions for London
I received my United Airlines newsletter today. If anyone would like for me to forward it to you, please contact me privately. Carol, you are correct, it is British Midlands. The stewarts were so nice to me and helped carry my bags. They also feed you all the way to England and back. Tickets to England and back from Washington DC, generally go in the $600 to $800 range during peak season and if you purchase them a month or so in advance. Within the past year we have purchased three round trip tickets and the price was around upper $400 to lower $500s. The last one we purchased was in March before the airlines raised rates for gas prices. When I was in London, my very favorite place was St. Paul's Catheral. The artwork is beautiful! I also loved our day trip to the Bath Costume Museum. I was very impressed with their costume displays. I wasn't impressed with the permanent VA costume exhibit... to much high fashion. The storage and textiles areas were closed when I was there. I loved the crown jewels at the Tower of London. I could have stayed there all day staring, if they would have let me. I am not a big jewelry fan, but these jewelry exhibits that I mentioned today and yesterday were just breathtaking. Susan, my asst. told me that there is a hand-fan museum in London. She tried to find it on her trip to England but was unsuccessful. Maybe some of our London list members can give better directions to the museum and if they have been there, provide a review of the collection. Is it worth finding. If anyone is going to Liverpool, I can suggest a couple of must-see places there. One day I will get my photos online from that trip. Currently I am putting online antebellum homes from the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Maybe I'll get to the Liverpool/Wales photos after the Back-to-School/Halloween rush season. Penny E. Ladnier Owner, The Costume Gallery, www.costumegallery.com Costume Classroom, www.costumeclassroom.com Costume Research Library, www.costumelibrary.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Good News
Hi Steven, Congratulations with the lottery, gosh what a treat! I couldnt resist in notice your line with Violet Bengaline for a suit. What is Bengaline, havent got a clue? Bjarne - Original Message - From: Stephen Bergdahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 6:46 AM Subject: [h-cost] Good News I have to brag! It seem that I won this weeks $100 Shopping Spree at Fabric.Com. Still in shock and now I have to figure out what to spend it on. I've got a dozen ideas all screaming at me. Do I remake, The Baby Blue Cavalier (Remember the first one Regina?) or make some new Renn Faire clothes in real silk and cotton velvet. Or they have some real red silk for a drop dead Byzantine and use up all those pearls that my bead freak Mother keeps giving me, not that I'm complaining. There is the Celery and Violet Bengaline that would make a great 1770's suit embrodierd in Ribbons ala Bjarne. And let's not even look at the wools, I need a new 1840's great coat in a LOUD plaid. They have orange and pink velvet for some thing Teddy might wear. AND AND AND HELP The shell shocked Stephen Bergdahl ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] ebay
Hi, Thanks for all your responses, well i think that many of you are right, i should be cautious. I have desided to ask him if he will make a package of the bundles i want and make it so that i can bit on this package at ebay. If he dont want, well then i wont buy. Bjarne Leif og Bjarne Drews www.my-drewscostumes.dk http://home0.inet.tele.dk/drewscph/ ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] launching a new Am I Period or Not website (cross post)
snip I wish you luck with your new venture. However, the original website took a picture from my personal website without my permission - a fantasy costume and so specified - and made a critique as if it was an historical one. I do hope that this will not happen on your new version. Suzi I will do what I can to stop image theft but I don't have the resources to search the internet every time somebody submits a picture so, I'm going to work on a presumption of innocence until proven guilty. However I will keep a record of the name of the person who submits a photo and if somebody brings it to my attention I will ban any image thief from submitting more photos. Elizabeth Elizabeth Walpole Canberra Australia ewalpole[at]tpg.com.au http://au.geocities.com/e_walpole/ ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] launching a new Am I Period or Not website (cross post)
snip I wish you luck with your new venture. However, the original website took a picture from my personal website without my permission - a fantasy costume and so specified - and made a critique as if it was an historical one. I do hope that this will not happen on your new version. Suzi I will do what I can to stop image theft but I don't have the resources to search the internet every time somebody submits a picture so, I'm going to work on a presumption of innocence until proven guilty. However I will keep a record of the name of the person who submits a photo and if somebody brings it to my attention I will ban any image thief from submitting more photos. Elizabeth Thank you for your reassurance. I think the premise behind the original one was - Take any image and do a critique which I think is questionable to say the least. If I want a critique of my work I am happy to submit it personally, but as a professional maker, I am bound by customer choice, so often it is not truly historical. Your new version sounds much more sensible and personal, and I hope it goes well. Suzi mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] launching a new Am I Period or Not website (cross post)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your reassurance. I think the premise behind the original one was - Take any image and do a critique which I think is questionable to say the least. The old site didn't specify that it had to be a picture of one's own work, or even if the site was trying to be serious or silly. As a result, it got fairly crazy, and some people clearly thought it was let's be as unhelpfully critical as possible, for fun. -- Cynthia Virtue and/or Cynthia du Pre Argent It stressed the negative effects of long hair on human intelligence development, noting that long hair consumes a great deal of nutrition and could thus rob the brain of energy. -- BBC about a public-education campagin in N. Korea ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Good News
weg I'd be happy to take the problem off your hands entirely! --sue Stephen Bergdahl wrote: I have to brag! It seem that I won this weeks $100 Shopping Spree at Fabric.Com. Still in shock and now I have to figure out what to spend it on. I've got a dozen ideas all screaming at me. Do I remake, The Baby Blue Cavalier (Remember the first one Regina?) or make some new Renn Faire clothes in real silk and cotton velvet. Or they have some real red silk for a drop dead Byzantine and use up all those pearls that my bead freak Mother keeps giving me, not that I'm complaining. There is the Celery and Violet Bengaline that would make a great 1770's suit embrodierd in Ribbons ala Bjarne. And let's not even look at the wools, I need a new 1840's great coat in a LOUD plaid. They have orange and pink velvet for some thing Teddy might wear. AND AND AND HELP The shell shocked Stephen Bergdahl ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] launching a new Am I Period or Not website (cross post)
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Elizabeth Walpole wrote: I will do what I can to stop image theft but I don't have the resources to search the internet every time somebody submits a picture so, I'm going to work on a presumption of innocence until proven guilty. However I will keep a record of the name of the person who submits a photo and if somebody brings it to my attention I will ban any image thief from submitting more photos. Perhaps also make an explicit rule that people are to submit only photos of themselves or costumes they have made (or something similarly restrictive). Otherwise people might assume the purpose of the site is to seek comments on costumes they've seen elsewhere, e.g. I saw someone wearing this, what do you think? or Look what I found, isn't this a hoot? -- these can be valid questions but probably not what you want in your forum, and that's where the privacy and copyright violations will occur. I think asking everyone who posts pictures or comments to register first might be a good way to cut down on the viciousness that appeared on the original site, if there's some way to allow people to vote/comment without their identities being posted (but perhaps accessible to you). Then you could boot the trolls and ballot-box stuffers. You might also consider making explicit just what the question means. Is it Please identify every possible error you can spot in this based on your personal knowledge of the period, or -- and I'm guessing this is more likely -- If you saw this person at an event, rate your overall initial impression from 0 (wandered in by mistake) to 10 (stepped out of a time machine). Also, consider whether you want to allow people to specify in their picture postings just what they want viewers to consider: the whole outfit or just a certain portion, the period/place/class they're aiming for, whether it's a first attempt, whether it's 95 degrees out and that's why they took off the fur-lined overdress, whether it was an informal snapshot and thus the person happened to be wearing glasses and carrying a clipboard but please comment on the outfit thankyouverymuch. --Robin ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] medieval garb for nursing mothers
Not that I know of, although discussions about same do come up on some of the medieval lists that I'm on. Discussions seem to center around the easiest ways to modify historical clothing (e.g., where/how to place a neck slit in an earlier-period tunic or shift lacing lines), or which styles most easily morph into nursing-friendly clothing (like those 16th century surcoats with the slits over the chest). --sue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any on-line sites about medieval garb for nursing mothers? Thank you. Nancy ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Re: Suggestions for London - Fan Museum
The Fan museum is in Greenwich (near naval museum) also next to the house Daniel Day Lewis grew up in, his father was poet laureate for United Kingdom at the time. There is a plaque marking it. It is an easy walk from the tube station. It is a lovely small museum with a fine orangery in the back. http://www.fan-museum.org/information.asp 12 Crooms Hill, Greenwich, London SE10 8ER Telephone: 0208-305 1441 0208-293 1889 -- Message: 11 Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 04:45:24 -0400 From: Penny Ladnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [h-cost] Suggestions for London To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=response \ Susan, my asst. told me that there is a hand-fan museum in London. She tried to find it on her trip to England but was unsuccessful. Maybe some of our London list members can give better directions to the museum and if they have been there, provide a review of the collection. Is it worth finding. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Re: suggestions for london
The first time I went to London, my parents insisted that I promise to see the Crown Jewels. Not much interested in jewelry, I balked -- but then I figured I was going to the Tower anyway, so why not? Go. See the Crown Jewels. They are unbelievable, and this from (again) someone not much interested in jewels or jewelry. Get there early before there's a huge line. As far as non-costume things go, I recommend Canterbury. It's a good day trip, and a lovely medieval town. And then you can wear a pilgrim medal! Gail Finke ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Good News
In a message dated 7/27/2005 9:10:20 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is Bengaline, havent got a clue? Since no one has replied yet--it is one of the crosswise ribbed fabrics (originally made from silk, of course), similar to faille and grosgrain. There is an order of these fabrics from fine ribs to fatter ones, but I don't remember exactly how they fall. I think bengaline is one of the fatter ones. Also, I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe some of these have stuffers to make the ribs fatter. Ann Wass ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Am I period or not
One thing to do might be to have people submit not only their own photos, but a brief statement (like one paragraph) about their goal in creating the costume and what they want out of a critique. Like, their goal was 100% accuracy for a woman's Viking outfit, their goal was to create as good an Elizabethan noble outfit as possible with a total budget of $50 and a total schedule of 80 hours, their goal was to create a really great outfit for Kate in a performance of _The Taming of the Shrew_, their goal was to create a fastasy medievalish wedding dress for a customer, their goal was to create a humorous take-off of an 1860s crinoline dress. etc. Really, the only valid critique of an outfit (or many other things) is whether the creator met the goal they were trying to meet. And how can anyone do that if they don't know the goal? Fran ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] New Martha McCain Simplicity Pattern
At 06:42 PM 7/27/2005, you wrote: And yes, the new Simplicity Martha McCain pattern is very nice. There is also a visiting dress coming out--it is made up in bright purple for the envelope. Is that #4510? Because if it is, that one came out a month or so ago as I bought it from Hancock's in June. Lovely dress, even if it is shiny purple (not my color). Kimiko ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Off to Turin
I'm off to Turin, Italy early Friday morning. I haven't yet read my guidebooks, I think I'll do that on the flight(s) over. Does anyone know of anything textile related that I shouldn't miss? I mean, of course, other than the famous Shroud, which if it is a fake, is still several hundred years old, and if it's not...it's even older. I'll be checking my email most days, so if there are any suggestions, even in the middle of the time I'm there (one week) I should get them. Thank you very much! Pam Dotson - Yahoo! Mail for Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] note on ribbit-tat site
Went to the site. You have some spelling errors. Thought you might want to know. All of our Frogs and other items are . so that each on(e) . can be loved by either Adults or Children. We stock the finest col(l)ection of Fairy Bottles to be found and our... Nice site. :) De ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
