[h-cost] Please consider competing in the first ever CC Runway!

Have you always thought that you could do a better design than the contestants on Project Runway (tm)? Do you want to be a fashion star (if just for a day)? Then please consider entering the first ever CC (Costume Con) Runway competition at Costume Con 30! Costume Con 30 will take place May

[h-cost] Burda

I was just looking at some old Burda magazines last night and found the Obituary edition with Anna Burda's life history. My Mother used them in the old days of german language only. I still have a few copies. This is where I got my only real german language from - you could say I sew in G

Re: [h-cost] Desperation request from a friend….

No, it's Costume Bazaar, in New Haven (and then, under new ownership, in Milford). The new owners weren't very obliging and also decided not to be open to the public, so I'm not surprised they haven't made it. Thanks for this! --Ruth Anne On Feb 28, 2012, at 7:33 PM, Katy Bishop wrote: > Recom

Re: [h-cost] Desperation request from a friend….

Recommendations from a friend: I hope that she's not using Valentine Armouries (http://www.varmouries.com/). It would be a pity to lose them. I recommend them. If it comes down to a purchase, there's also polyurethane LARP armor, carried by many suppliers (for example, http://www.by-the-sword.c

Re: [h-cost] Desperation request from a friend..

Thanks, Sharon! I'll pass this along. --Ruth Anne On Feb 28, 2012, at 6:39 PM, Sharon Collier wrote: > How many pieces and what type does he need? > Easy, inexpensive armor: > For chain mail. Get a black sweater the nubbier the knit, the better. Dry > brush silver paint onto the sweater. Do not

Re: [h-cost] Desperation request from a friend..

How many pieces and what type does he need? Easy, inexpensive armor: For chain mail. Get a black sweater the nubbier the knit, the better. Dry brush silver paint onto the sweater. Do not soak it; just a light brushing will do. It looks like chain mail from a distance. For helmet-- Get a wig stan

Re: [h-cost] Desperation request from a friend….

Quick websearch shows a costumer just over the border from Conn.  in Cornwall, NY that has theatrical-grade LaMancha armor: http://www.costumearmour.com/index.htm http://www.costumearmour.com/lamancha.htm Up here in Boston, Boston Costume might be a lower-cost option: http://www.boston

[h-cost] Desperation request from a friend….

Hello the list. A friend is directing Man of La Mancha in his high school, and the place where he was expecting to rent armor is going out of business and has no armor. We're in Connecticut. Can anyone recommend a rental place, or else refer me to directions for building papier mache armor and

Re: [h-cost] History of pattern sheets with overlapping patterns

You might be interested in Claudia Kidwell's book Cutting a Fashionable Fit, which discusses the various alternatives home dressmakers had for acquiring patterns, primarily in the Victorian era. The German magazines were translated into the target languages. But aside from that, these magazine

Re: [h-cost] History of pattern sheets with overlapping patterns

Fran, That's really interesting information. I knew about later periods with patterns later in the 19C and in the 20th but this early information is all new. Thanks for sharing. Having worked with Burda patterns from their magazines (in German without the seam allowances) before I made costumes a

[h-cost] History of pattern sheets with overlapping patterns

OK, I wrote this for another forum, but thought you guys might be interested. I own published pattern sheets dating from the early 1830s, the earliest I can find. (Tissue patterns for consumers [that is, not tailor’s master patterns] were sold as early as the 1820s, but as far as I have been