Re: [h-cost] re: fine drawing?

2006-02-11 Thread Joannah Hansen
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Re: [h-cost] new to me

2006-02-11 Thread AnnBWass
In a message dated 2/10/2006 11:55:51 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Miniatures of Nicholas Hillard and his wife Alice Brandon. Those are really neat! However, may I humbly suggest a little more info in a post like this, to give us a hint of the period. I

Re: [h-cost] fine drawing

2006-02-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You're right. Fine drawing is described in the instructions as like lacing so it sounds like it could be used to reinforce a seam. It just wouldn't look anything like the pictures I posted when used that way. :-) __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam?

Re: [h-cost] Dune

2006-02-11 Thread Jacqueline Johnson
Agreed. Costumes great. Movies bite. Books rock. Bice On 2/9/06, Kimiko Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:40 PM 2/8/2006, you wrote: I got the newly issued DVD of Duneanother film much hated but I love because I don't find it confusing [and I've never read the books] While I

Re: [h-cost] Roman women's hairstyles

2006-02-11 Thread Lloyd Mitchell
I have it on the shelf, but it is in the file to discard. Does anyone not know about the R.Courson book I mentioned earlier. He covers hair styles from almost pre-history through most of the twentieth Century. This volume is about 3 thick; the drawings are based on statuary of the ancients

Re: [h-cost] new to me

2006-02-11 Thread Dianne Greg Stucki
Original Message - From: otsisto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Historic Costume h-costume@mail.indra.com Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 11:49 PM Subject: [h-cost] new to me Miniatures of Nicholas Hillard and his wife Alice Brandon.

[h-cost] Dune costumes

2006-02-11 Thread Cheryldee
While I really enjoyed both sets of movies (SciFi version, and the original movie with extended info), the books are so much better imho One should never go to a movie based on a book and expect it to be in any way true to the book's story. Different medium. Then one is less often

Re: [h-cost] new to me

2006-02-11 Thread Lalah
Does her lace ruff stop at the shoulder? It almost looks like it attaches to her black veil. Is that usual? Can't remember seeing anything like that before, but Elizabethan isn't my primary period (yet). Thanks Lalah, Never give up, Never surrender --- otsisto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[h-cost] Re: BHO series

2006-02-11 Thread Gail Scott Finke
Becky wrote: Try watching the latest series on HBO or Cimemax, Called Ceasar. It's great. It portrays all the nasty things people think but pretend don't happen in society. Just proves that nothing is new, even sexual orientation, seduction, powergrabs and political arrangements through sex.

Re: [h-cost] Roman women's hairstyles

2006-02-11 Thread Catherine Olanich Raymond
On Saturday 11 February 2006 8:56 am, Lloyd Mitchell wrote: I have it on the shelf, but it is in the file to discard. Does anyone not know about the R.Courson book I mentioned earlier. Yes, I am familiar with Corson's book. However, I believe it's out of print. It's certainly hard to

[h-cost] DVDs

2006-02-11 Thread Lavolta Press
I just saw a fantastic DVD I bought of Offenbach's La Vie Parisienne. This production was put on by the Opera National de Lyon; it has English subtitles. The costumes are around 1876, more or less--they're stage costumes. But who cares about the costumes? The opera is a vivid, simultaneously

Re: [h-cost] Dune costumes

2006-02-11 Thread Helen Pinto
Cheryl wrote: I particularly liked the moisture-trapping suits. The name for them escapes me. Still-suits. -Helen/Aidan ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

[h-cost] costumer wanted in Nashville, TN

2006-02-11 Thread Dawn
I've been contacted by a woman who wants a fantasy costume and headpiece made for her, for a performance she is doing. She'd like to work with someone local to her in Tennessee. Let me know if you might be interested and I will give her your contact info. Dawn

Re: [h-cost] DVDs

2006-02-11 Thread AlbertCat
In a message dated 2/11/2006 1:14:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just saw a fantastic DVD I bought of Offenbach's La Vie Parisienne. I love Offenbach! Les Contes d'Hoffmann is one of my fave operas [Right after Monteverdi's Orfeo and Mozart's Le Nozzi]. Now

Re: [h-cost] DVDs

2006-02-11 Thread Lavolta Press
Do you know a really good DVD of Les Contes d'Hoffmann, musically, and in terms of the technical quality of transferring the music, and where they didn't go and use modern clothes for costumes or something? The San Francisco Opera DVD of Die Fledermaus is absolutely wonderful BTW. Fran

Re: [h-cost] Dune costumes

2006-02-11 Thread Kimiko Small
At 07:58 AM 2/11/2006, you wrote: I particularly liked the moisture-trapping suits. The name for them escapes me. Still suits, iirc. It's been awhile. Kimiko ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com

Re: [h-cost] Roman women's hairstyles

2006-02-11 Thread Lloyd Mitchell
I have the makeup book also. The book were given to me by a former director...sort of in his will. I will check my shelf for what might be a digest version that I have acquired. (And thanks for the sp.check..) Also, I think that Cassine-Scott did a fair job in his Greek and Roman handbook for

[h-cost] Re: OT...Les Contes d'Hoffann...was DVDs

2006-02-11 Thread AlbertCat
In a message dated 2/11/2006 9:44:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you know a really good DVD of Les Contes d'Hoffmann, musically, and in terms of the technical quality of transferring the music, and where they didn't go and use modern clothes for costumes or

Re: [h-cost] Re: OT...Les Contes d'Hoffann...was DVDs

2006-02-11 Thread AlbertCat
I'm sorryI forgot the links won't post if I just drag them in the e-mail. here they are: DVDs http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Drilldown?album_group=2comp_id=2182; name_role1=1name_id1=8878 The CD http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Drilldown?name_id1=8878name_role1=1;