Re: [h-cost] lab coats

2005-07-21 Thread Melody Watts
Men's Barbers also were required to wear"appropriate" uniforms in the 50's-60's that were cut in this form, I personaly remember my dentist and Peditrician wearing these tops in the late 50's also Melody --- Sheryl Nance-Durst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found something close - > Went to ht

Re: [h-cost] lab coats

2005-07-21 Thread Shane & Sheridan
This looks like what you are looking for, style wise: http://www.antiquescientifica.com/web.civil_war_confederate_surgeon's_coat.htm http://www.braceface.com/medical/images/civil%20war%20surgeon's%20coat.jpg I also tried finding pictures from old silent movies and horror movies, after much head s

Re: [h-cost] lab coats

2005-07-21 Thread Sheryl Nance-Durst
I found something close - Went to http://memory.loc.gov , searched for the word "dentist". The last picture on page 4 of the results has something really close. (The one titled "Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Dentist uses the X-ray on a TVA chemical worker") It looks like

Re: [h-cost] lab coats

2005-07-21 Thread Helen Pinto
I think you're referring to a coat with a standing color, buttons across one shoulder, and then down the side of the chest, right? For the long-sleeved version (also long in length), try an image search for pictures of civilian and maybe military doctors from the influenza epidemic of 1918 or an

Re: [h-cost] lab coats

2005-07-21 Thread Susan B. Farmer
Quoting Cynthia Virtue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Mad science mouse: http://www.research.usf.edu/cm/pics/mad_scientist.JPG Oh, *that* jacket! I don't think I've ever seen one in the flesh. I'd think that the chef's jacket would be a good place to start for making one though. And would be dandy

Re: [h-cost] lab coats

2005-07-21 Thread Cynthia Virtue
Mad science mouse: http://www.research.usf.edu/cm/pics/mad_scientist.JPG Oh, *that* jacket! I don't think I've ever seen one in the flesh. I'd think that the chef's jacket would be a good place to start for making one though. And would be dandy as-is for a nearly-right costume, if someone

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2005-07-21 Thread otsisto
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Re: [h-cost] lab coats

2005-07-21 Thread Susan B. Farmer
Quoting Cynthia Virtue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Susan B. Farmer wrote: Sounds like you're thinking about what I think of as a chef's jacket Indra's sending things through in funny order again Yeah I noticed that It's not quite a chef's jacket. Those tend to have two rows of buttons

Re: [h-cost] lab coats

2005-07-21 Thread Lynn Downward
Wouldn't it be just as easy to alter a regular jacket - extend the one side over the other and add the facings? It wouldn't be much different from changing a center back seam to a center side seam. These lab coats are much closer fitting than the current ones, and I don't remember if there are pock

Re: [h-cost] lab coats

2005-07-21 Thread Susan
Cynthia Virtue posted: > Here's some images: > > Mad science mouse: > http://www.research.usf.edu/cm/pics/mad_scientist.JPG Yes, this is really close to what I am thinking of, thanks. I looked last night and couldn't find a picture even that good. But I still would kinda like to know if they were

Re: [h-cost] lab coats OT: GG online

2005-07-21 Thread Dawn
Cynthia Virtue wrote: Kimiko Small wrote: Online??? Online I love Girl Genius, but I read the books my friend picks up for me. Are you saying that it is available online as well? http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ -- The new series starts at the end of issue 13; will be collected in 'g

Re: [h-cost] lab coats

2005-07-21 Thread Cynthia Virtue
Susan B. Farmer wrote: Sounds like you're thinking about what I think of as a chef's jacket Indra's sending things through in funny order again It's not quite a chef's jacket. Those tend to have two rows of buttons. what I think of as the classic has one row, roughly along the nipple l

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2005-07-21 Thread Kimiko Small
At 06:21 PM 7/20/2005, you wrote: Debs. PS the website is .co.uk, not .com (ie www.pewterreplicas.co.uk ) Hi Debs, I had that url as well. However, the Tudor Jewels site (www.tudorjewels.com) points to the .com version (http://www.pewterreplicas.com), which appears to be a newer version o

Re: [h-cost] lab coats

2005-07-21 Thread E House
I'd be downright shocked if the American Memory collection at the Library of Congress didn't have some pictures of doctors/scientists in the 1920s: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ -E House - Original Message - From: "Susan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This has two roots - one is that someone o

Re: [h-cost] lab coats OT: GG online

2005-07-21 Thread Cynthia Virtue
Kimiko Small wrote: Online??? Online I love Girl Genius, but I read the books my friend picks up for me. Are you saying that it is available online as well? http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ -- The new series starts at the end of issue 13; will be collected in 'graphic novel' format but no

Re: [h-cost] lab coats

2005-07-21 Thread Ann Catelli
Maybe look for a chef's coat or pharmacist's, maybe dentist. I've only seen pictures of lab coats back to the turn of the 20th century at my school, and they tended towards large. (women in the chemistry lab; woman's college) My own, personal lab coats when I worked in chemistry were nearly alwa

[h-cost] Spoiler space please!!

2005-07-21 Thread Althea Turner
Please folks, have pity on us poor schleps that can't read the book right away. Put space at the top of the messages so we can enjoy our read as much as you obviously are. :D Thanks!! Althea Turner *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://www.alfalfapress.com Reunite Pangaea! It is proof of a base

Re: [h-cost] lab coats

2005-07-21 Thread Susan B. Farmer
Quoting Susan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I've seen in cartoons, and the like, pictures of an old style Laboratory coat (white, high collar, has a flap front that closes with buttons on the shoulder - tends to be slightly fitted). Sounds like you're thinking about what I think of as a chef's jacket

Re: [h-cost] lab coats

2005-07-21 Thread Kristalor
http://nawtythings.com/halloween/him4.html This one it's probably not really what you are looking for but it's closer than the newer style coats. I know that House of Vamp (a goth company) does a "lab coat" dress. Maybe they have some ideas. http://www.houseofvamp.com/Catagories/dresses/new/labcoa

Re: [h-cost] lab coats

2005-07-21 Thread Susan B. Farmer
Quoting Ruth Anne Baumgartner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The lab coat is a knee-length heavy cotton (usually white) unlined coat/jacket, with side seams split to allow access to trousers pockets, possibly two front pockets with angled openings, and a pocket on the left chest. You could probably use a

Re: [h-cost] lab coats

2005-07-21 Thread Cynthia Virtue
Regular lab coats can be had from many places, easily. I got one for my hubby one year; his job title was "Senior Scientist" and I had one embroidered "Senior Mad Scientist" above the pocket in the usual place. However, the shoulder-button type is one I've only seen in Victorian-era-imitation

Re: [h-cost] lab coats

2005-07-21 Thread Lavolta Press
When I was a tech writer for one of Hewlett-Packard's computer research labs, there was a chemistry research lab across the hall. Our department's vending machine was near our door to that hall, and the chemists came in to use it a lot. Yes, they wore white lab coats. They also wore what is ap

Re: [h-cost] lab coats

2005-07-21 Thread Ruth Anne Baumgartner
The lab coat is a knee-length heavy cotton (usually white) unlined coat/jacket, with side seams split to allow access to trousers pockets, possibly two front pockets with angled openings, and a pocket on the left chest. You could probably use a raincoat pattern along Chesterfield lines (narrow