RE: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-10 Thread JAMES OGILVIE
But I've always sent my h-costume messages in HTML. I leave that as my standard e-mail setting and only change to plain text when I post to 1 particular list. Janet Had a quick look on Google - maybe it's been sent in HTML rather than plain text? Glenda -Original Message- I've

Re: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-10 Thread E House
My thought (on the February image) was always that it was due to lice or the like... -E House ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

RE: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-10 Thread Glenda Robinson
Hi Janet, Had a quick look on Google - maybe it's been sent in HTML rather than plain text? Glenda -Original Message- I've been trying to post to this thread and I keep getting this message back. What's the problem? Janet >The message's content type was not explicitly allowed > __

RE: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-10 Thread JAMES OGILVIE
I've been trying to post to this thread and I keep getting this message back. What's the problem? Janet From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 16:57:28 -0600 The message's content type was not explicitly allowe

RE: [h-cost] womans 18th century cap

2007-05-10 Thread Abel, Cynthia
Caps, whatever the style and color, were quite popular during the 18th and early 19th century. Mostly they were meant for older women, but younger women, like Jane Austen and her sister, wore caps on a regular basis--Jane famously wrote that her caps saved her much time in hairdressing.It probabl

RE: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-10 Thread Glenda Robinson
My husband has now suggested something more reasonable - they could be children! As perspective wasn't used in artworks as yet, children were usually pictured as small adults, so it could well be the two kids of the house warming themselves by the fire. Glenda. -Original Message- My hus

RE: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-10 Thread Glenda Robinson
My husband wondered it it was because they had stood to close to the fire ... Glenda. -Original Message- Well, the Roman look is back in these days, so maybe it was enjoying a revival in the middle ages. Ed Walton ___ h-costume mailing li

Re: [h-cost] womans 18th century cap

2007-05-10 Thread AlbertCat
In a message dated 5/10/2007 4:47:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well its for the red dress i am making, i have promised her to make a wide brimmed silk taffeta hat, but for indoors she could wear this lace frill? ** Indeed. She can wear t

Re: [h-cost] Getting paid

2007-05-10 Thread Bjarne og Leif Drews
Dear paula, Thanks, i guess you are in the buisinees two? or perhaps knows something about it. Its just so annoying that the world is so hard to change in some parts... Bjarne - Original Message - From: "Paula Praxis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007

Re: [h-cost] RE: Bjarne's upcoming Inspiration article

2007-05-10 Thread Bjarne og Leif Drews
Thanks Lorina, Also of the answer about the womans haircap. Bjarne - Original Message - From: "Five Rivers Chapmanry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 8:33 PM Subject: [h-cost] RE: Bjarne's upcoming Inspiration article I'm quite in Bjarne's camp

[h-cost] womans 18th century cap

2007-05-10 Thread Bjarne og Leif Drews
I just watched Barry Lyndon, where towards the end, Redmonds mother is wearing a small cap wich is made entirely of a piece of lace wich is gathered into a rosette in the top, and spreading out on the hair all way round. I have not seen this type in any portraits, but i wondered if it would not

Re: [h-cost] Bjarne's upcoming Inspiration article.

2007-05-10 Thread Bjarne og Leif Drews
Sorry, not the previous, the current off cause Bjarne - Original Message - From: "Bjarne og Leif Drews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:57 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Bjarne's upcoming Inspiration article. The prev

Re: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-10 Thread Ed Walton
On May 10, 2007, at 10:24, Suzi Clarke wrote: Did they not have - errm - furry bits or hair then? They look "added on" to me, but then what do I know? Suzi Well, the Roman look is back in these days, so maybe it was enjoying a revival in the middle ages. Ed Walton Lost Battalions Mi

Re: [h-cost] Bjarne's upcoming Inspiration article.

2007-05-10 Thread Lavolta Press
I missed the beginning of this thread. However: Is _Inspiration_ the commercial smocking/embroidery magazine? In the world of academia--which that magazine isn't--contributors seldom get paid much for journal contributions because journal articles advance their careers in other important ways

[h-cost] RE: Bjarne's upcoming Inspiration article

2007-05-10 Thread Five Rivers Chapmanry
I'm quite in Bjarne's camp on this one; people should get paid for their work, regardless of gender or whatever. There's no such thing as 'building a resume' in that regard, because it has been my experience that once the 'for profit' world finds out you've been giving away your work to the

[h-cost] Getting paid

2007-05-10 Thread Paula Praxis
Bjarne, You are so right. Men and women who care for others - I'm not talking doctors and nurses in hospitals, but the everyday people who hold hands, bring food, bathe bodies-these poeple should get better pay. So should people like you who keep alive beautiful hand craft skills such as

RE: [h-cost] Bjarne's upcoming Inspiration article.

2007-05-10 Thread Abel, Cynthia
Bjarne: Many contributors to journals don't get paid unless they are on the journal's staff or on contract. Possibly just as well they might not include the pattern, because lots of contributors also have to sign away their rights to journals, which might include the pattern. Not getting paid by

RE: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-10 Thread Suzi Clarke
At 15:45 10/05/2007, you wrote: Quoting Glenda Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Don't ask why, but I looked for a good close-up pic: http://www.christusrex.org/www2/berry/DB-f2v-d3l.jpg (No blurring here...) However, it does show that the woman to the left of the man is showing all as well. L

RE: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-10 Thread Susan B. Farmer
Quoting Glenda Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Don't ask why, but I looked for a good close-up pic: http://www.christusrex.org/www2/berry/DB-f2v-d3l.jpg (No blurring here...) However, it does show that the woman to the left of the man is showing all as well. LOL! I'd never noticed the woman

Re: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-10 Thread Saragrace Knauf
Oh my! I had never noticed this before in this picture. An interesting study on perspective -Ahem (again!) - Original Message - From: Glenda Robinson To: 'Historical Costume' Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 11:53 PM Subject:

Re: [h-cost] Bjarne's upcoming Inspiration article.

2007-05-10 Thread Bjarne og Leif Drews
The previous issue is number 54 and they told me i would be in number 55 wich comes in august. It seems to be that i only wil have the interwiev with pictures, they were interrested in gettning the embroidery pattern for my embroidered bird stomacher, but i dont think it wil come because i shoul

[h-cost] Missing messages

2007-05-10 Thread Aylwen & John Garden
Greetings. I lost some of my messages on the list some time today. The last one I got was Lynn embroidered cuff message. If there were any others, can someone forward them to me, please? Many thanks, Aylwen ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indr

[h-cost] Re: 30s Rayon Prints

2007-05-10 Thread Migrationbird
Silvia , You might try www.reproductionfabrics.com I can remember my Grandmother wearing some of the Shaker greys in the early 50s. Her taste had not moved on from the 30s. Good hunting Joy. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http