Hi,
I am planning to buy myself an adjustable dressform and have found a webpage
that sells them at a very low price:
http://www.polimex.net/sklep/index.php?page=SubCategoryListcatid=5sid=19lang=pl
I would be an idiot to buy it elsewhere, because anywhere else it's minimum
twice the price and
There are pictures of some at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston:
http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?coll_keywords=45.297submit.x=0submit.y=0
http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?coll_keywords=45.298submit.x=0submit.y=0
Katy
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Suzi Clarke
Are you sure they're silk? I'm surprised they survived the bleaching at all!
MaggiRos
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On Sun, Jan 4,
Absolutely everything just as the writer below says. I tend to think
of it more as an ice cream colors era. Big florals were in fashion
as a summer thing in a few years. It would help if you'd give us more
context next time. Hollywood startlet is likely more sparkly than the
recent widow at a
I know there has been reams written on this list about the Gothic
Fitted Dress, and I remember seeing a how to set of pictures, but
when I tried to find information to pass on to a colleague, I was
stumped. Anyone care to point me in the right direction? I know there
is information in the
At 16:31 04/01/2009, you wrote:
There are pictures of some at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston:
http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?coll_keywords=45.297submit.x=0submit.y=0
http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?coll_keywords=45.298submit.x=0submit.y=0
Katy
Katy
Thank you so
On Sunday 04 January 2009 12:23:11 pm Suzi Clarke wrote:
I know there has been reams written on this list about the Gothic
Fitted Dress, and I remember seeing a how to set of pictures, but
when I tried to find information to pass on to a colleague, I was
stumped. Anyone care to point me in the
At 17:41 04/01/2009, you wrote:
On Sunday 04 January 2009 12:23:11 pm Suzi Clarke wrote:
I know there has been reams written on this list about the Gothic
Fitted Dress, and I remember seeing a how to set of pictures, but
when I tried to find information to pass on to a colleague, I was
if I remember correctly, silk has the same chemical make up as human hair. that
being the case, I might try a product for whitening grey hair that has
yellowed. perhaps you can take a few snipets from an inside seam allowance to
experiment with first before sacrificing the entire piece to
This is just for an evening ball, including any and all eras. I happen to
have a Vintage Vogue pattern and thought it would be fun to make it! So, I
was more curious than anything about colors. I chose a sapphire blue (crepe
on one side, satin on the other - I haven't decided which side I'll use
In a message dated 1/4/2009 1:11:04 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
hippy_dippy_dan...@yahoo.com writes:
if I remember correctly, silk has the same chemical make up as human hair.
**
I find that hard to believe. Silk comes from caterpillarsit's their
cocoon. It has
Date: January 4, 2009 11:20:33 AM CST
To: Historical Costume h-cost...@indra.com
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Phrygian cap pattern?
There are pictures of some at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston:
http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?
coll_keywords=45.297submit.x=0submit.y=0
Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote:
Robin Netherton's site is here. For some reason, it now requires a login and
password to access the material on the GFD.
Grr. Thanks for letting me know. This is news to me, and I have no clue what
to do about it. I will see what I can manage.
--Robin
albert...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 1/4/2009 1:11:04 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
hippy_dippy_dan...@yahoo.com writes:
if I remember correctly, silk has the same chemical make up as human hair.
**
I find that hard to believe. Silk comes from
Hello,
I have a pair of pongé silk tippets, which turned
from white to yellow (like unbleached muslin)
after I put them in chlorine bleach. Yes, I know,
I shouldn´t have done that, but it was my last
try to remove a nasty linnseed-oil-spot...
Anyway, does anybody know any trick how to get
On the issue of bust size you are probably better off buying one with a too
flat bust than too large, if you are making something for somebody with a
bigger bust than the dress form you can put a bra on it and stuff the cups,
it's much harder to deal with a dress form that is too big (I know
Have you tried old fashioned Blueing? Its supposed to cancel out the yellow
in clothes(like fro persperation stains and I remember my mom using it on slips
that yellowed from chlorine bleach.
The termBlue Hair denoting an aged lady was coined from the use of this same
laundry blueing as a hair
In case anyone is interested, I have listed a few fabrics on ebay which I
purchased at an estate auction. They were parts of lots and I do not need
them. However, they do look vintage, are all of natural fibers (linen or
cotton by burn test), and I thought there may be someone here who might like
There's always Webshots! Or Flickr of course.
MaggiRos
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On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Rebecca
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Robin,
Robin Netherton wrote:
Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote:
Robin Netherton's site is here. For some reason, it now requires a
login and password to access the material on the GFD.
Grr. Thanks for letting me know. This is news to me, and I
In a message dated 1/4/2009 1:51:19 PM Eastern Standard Time,
albert...@aol.com writes:
Silk comes from caterpillarsit's their
cocoon. It has little to do with hair.
Well, silk IS a protein fiber, like wool and hair. However, I think most of
the products that brighten yellow hair
On Jan 4, 2009, at 2:29 PM, Robin Netherton wrote:
It can take a little while for the bleach to do its work. I suppose
that is why you can use certain (weak) bleach products to alter the
color of your hair and not end up bald ... but it's certainly not
good for your hair.
Years ago, I
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Robin,
Kathleen Hanrahan wrote:
Because the links are ftp links
ftp://netherton.net/FittedDressPosts.txt and not http links
http://netherton.net/FittedDressPosts.txt?
I get the same thing (dialog box asking for userid and password) when
I use an
On Sunday 04 January 2009 3:44:51 pm Kathleen Hanrahan wrote:
Because the links are ftp links
ftp://netherton.net/FittedDressPosts.txt and not http links
http://netherton.net/FittedDressPosts.txt?
Thanks. I didn't even look at them.
--
Cathy Raymond ca...@thyrsus.com
If someone offers you
Kathleen Hanrahan wrote:
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Robin,
Robin Netherton wrote:
Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote:
Robin Netherton's site is here. For some reason, it now requires a
login and password to access the material on the GFD.
Grr. Thanks for letting me know.
On Sunday 04 January 2009 1:03:42 pm Suzi Clarke wrote:
At 17:41 04/01/2009, you wrote:
On Sunday 04 January 2009 12:23:11 pm Suzi Clarke wrote:
I know there has been reams written on this list about the Gothic
Thank you - those were the pictures I remembered, and what I was
looking for.
Thanks for any advice,
Zuzana
While I am not familiar with the specific dress forms you listed, I recently
decided to go with a Uniquely You foam dress form, and tossed my dial form.
http://www.sewvacdirect.com/uniquelyyoudressforms.html
The biggest reason had to do with the length of my
In a message dated 1/4/2009 3:48:35 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
annbw...@aol.com writes:
Well, silk IS a protein fiber, like wool and hair.
***
Well, there are proteins and proteinsa lot of different kinds that do
many different things. But I'm sure something as
I could be hallucinating, but I recall reading somewhere that vinegar or
lemon juice were sometimes used to lighten hair.
Arlys
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 16:00:07 -0500 Carol Kocian aqua...@patriot.net
writes:
On Jan 4, 2009, at 2:29 PM, Robin Netherton wrote:
It can take a little while for the
Cynthia J Ley wrote:
I could be hallucinating, but I recall reading somewhere that vinegar or
lemon juice were sometimes used to lighten hair.
Both are acids, though mild I would not use them on old silk.
Denture tablets are an old remedy for whitening fabric that has yellowed
with age. It
There's also an issue of maintaining some measure of restriction on
whether the documents themselves (as opposed to the main index page)
get picked up by search engines ... I try not to encourage people to
grab bits and pieces off the web, out of context, rather than reading
the whole
In a message dated 1/4/2009 6:07:20 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
c...@juno.com writes:
I could be hallucinating, but I recall reading somewhere that vinegar or
lemon juice were sometimes used to lighten hair.
**
Both acids. And I believe they will also curl it.
In ancient
In a message dated 1/4/2009 8:03:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
d...@reddawn.net writes:
Denture tablets are an old remedy for whitening fabric that has yellowed
with age. It also works on yellowed fingernails.
They contain peroxide, no?
**New year...new news.
What really worries me is how they discovered this fact :(
Sidney
**
Both acids. And I believe they will also curl it.
In ancient Greece I believe fashionable ladies used horse urinepouring
it over their hair laid out on special boards out in the sun. That sounds
Dawn wrote:
There's also an issue of maintaining some measure of restriction on
whether the documents themselves (as opposed to the main index page)
get picked up by search engines ... I try not to encourage people to
grab bits and pieces off the web, out of context, rather than reading
the
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