Re: [h-cost] Dating an image

Interesting piece! It's both right up my alley, and out of my area of expertise. I've spent a couple of decades collecting images of ads from about 1860-1970, so in that sense it's definitely my thing. I LOVE old advertising/marketing/packaging. Frustratingly, though, just knowing when the image

[h-cost] 1930s Joan of Arc reenactment (color photos)

http://mashable.com/2016/04/18/joan-of-arc-festival/ This is a collection of photos from the 1932 Joan of Arc festival in Compiégne. The garb is both very nitpickable, and very awesome. -E House ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http:/

Re: [h-cost] searching for 1887 misses' fashion illustrations

Hrm, thank you both--I'll check those ideas, but I suspect that school photos won't show traveling clothing. Also, since the late 1880s is Not My Period, I probably _won't_ be able to properly extrapolate what the back would look like! :) The group setting doesn't really matter, but I'll still fo

[h-cost] searching for 1887 misses' fashion illustrations

Okay, I have an overly specific search challenge/request for the list! I'm looking for illustrations (of any sort, as long as they're primary or really really accurate secondary sources) of what upper middle class girls of 9, 15, and 19 years old would wear in the summer of 1887 as they're boardin

Re: [h-cost] Charity Sewing

I'm still here, although taking a nice long break from sewing--I still enjoy reading the list, though! I've been away from my computer a lot lately (I also recently moved, from a 180 yr old house in Vermont to a 1 yr old apartment in TX; quite the change) so the threads of the list have sort of cr

Re: [h-cost] spam (was "need help with Butterick B6074")

know > not to use "spam" in a subject line! > > Emily > > > > On 3/6/2015 12:47 PM, Elena House wrote: > >> Heh, when you put 'spam' in the title, my gmail seems to automatically put >> it in the spam folder, as it did with this thread.

Re: [h-cost] spam (was "need help with Butterick B6074")

Heh, when you put 'spam' in the title, my gmail seems to automatically put it in the spam folder, as it did with this thread. That might even technically be irony! (I only saw & rescued it because I was looking for something else. Apparently when your business is named 'Ambitious Rubbish' it a

Re: [h-cost] New Topic: Is this a Postmortem Photo

I'm going to vote post mortem as well, and not just from the appearance of the child in the photo, but also from the story passed down with it--it makes sense to me that the reason your grandmother was so eager to get photos of her next child was because the only one she was able to get of this chi

Re: [h-cost] 1880s hair-styling terms: crimps and "fedoras"

hat was a > "fedora style" but depending on the shape of the hat, or where it sits on > the head, styling it "right" is everything. > > > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Elena House wrote: > > > Thanks; lovely resources. I'm definitely familiar with the fe

Re: [h-cost] 1880s hair-styling terms: crimps and "fedoras"

in the beginning of the video that makes this worth watching > for > > your book research. A few pages of hair tools are shown. > > > > As an alternative to rolling the hair around a heated rod, one could have > > wrapped the ends in paper, then rolled up the hair and

[h-cost] 1880s hair-styling terms: crimps and "fedoras"

I'm writing a novella set in 1887 with three teenage girls as the main characters, and as a result I've been doing research into the slang & pop culture and so forth of the time period in New England. The 1880s are Not My Era, and I've run across a term-and-a-half that confuse me. Here's the pass

[h-cost] Catacombs of Priscilla

Recently, I was puttering around on the internet, following increasingly unrelated links. You know, as one does. Anyway, I ran into several images from the Catacombs of Priscilla in Rome. The catacombs date from the 2nd to the 5th centuries, but what caught my attention were a couple of frescoes

Re: [h-cost] "Medieval brides wore red."

I wonder if the origin of this one lies with the word 'scarlet' rather than 'red'? Or, alternately, with kermes and cochineal, rather than madder? Generally speaking, cross-culture and cross-era, a bride is going to wear her fanciest dress, so it seems quite reasonable that luxury fabrics or expe

Re: [h-cost] used Bernina

I missed the start of this thread, so apologies if this has already been mentioned or doesn't really apply to what you asked! However, if you want an old Bernina, I highly suggest an 830 Record Electronic, which in spite of the name is pretty much mechanical, apart from the fact that you do need t

Re: [h-cost] Sherlock Holmes

I watched an interview with Robert Downey Jr. when the first one came out, and he made the excellent point that there actually was a great deal of action in the SH stories... it was just written in a very glazed over sort of way. "They gave chase," or, "After a struggle, they apprehended the culpr

Re: [h-cost] Winter flowers for New England?

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Elena House wrote: >  I could swear I've run across several sets of > how-to-make-artificial-flowers instructions in Victorian ephemera of > the sort your characters might be likely to have run across, although > I'm not enough of a masochi

Re: [h-cost] Winter flowers for New England?

As a Vermonter (for at least one more winter) whose back porch door has been completely taken over by bittersweet vines, I can tell you that, while very pretty at the right time of year, it won't likely be too pretty on Dec 29; even now, the berries on mine are already falling off and shriveling up

[h-cost] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

LinkedIn Elena House requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: -- Suzanne, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Elena Accept invitation from Elena House http://www.linkedin.com/e/-dojq1w-grd

[h-cost] (x-post) looking for illuminations of women in armor

I need help with an image search! I'm looking for illuminations/miniatures/tapestries of women in armor, c1330-1530. Allegories, saints, whatever--the only realism I need in the image is that it really be what people c1330-1530 thought a woman would look like, wearing armor! There's one 15thC ima

Re: [h-cost] help identifying picture

Ooo, turns out Google has a nifty new way to search to do an image search: you can drag an image into the image search bar, and it'll find similar images, often the same image but at a different resolution. Using that, I learned that the painting in question is: Ragazza in costume veneziano, 1874

Re: [h-cost] help identifying picture

Well, being somewhat familiar with the site in the caption at the bottom of the image, I'd definitely view it with suspicion, as evidenced by this: http://chzhistoriclols.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/funny-pictures-history-disco-duck-what-manner-of-plainchant-be-this.jpg from the same general site..

Re: [h-cost] Silly books (was: pouting about R. Wedding coverage)

Thank you both, and drat! Thanks to my kindle I am now hopelessly addicted. -E House On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Jean Waddie wrote: > Yes indeed - the author is Gail Carriger. > On 01/05/2011 12:11, Genie wrote: >> Oh, you're talking about the Stempunk/romance series, "Soulless" I think. _

[h-cost] Silly books (was: pouting about R. Wedding coverage)

I love very silly books featuring hideous Victorian hats. Who's the author and what's the series? -E House On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Jean Waddie wrote: > Re hats:  I'm reading a series of (very silly) books at the moment, set in > Victorian London, where the heroine's best friend is note

[h-cost] Dating vintage sewing stuff

Speaking of costume-related inheritances, I recently inherited my 93-year old grandma-in-law's sewing stuff--all of it, including some stuff she probably should have thrown away 50 years ago! But since I find old wooden bobbins with only a couple of feet of thread left on them fascinating, I'm def

Re: [h-cost] Are you guys willing to test a Facebook business page?

I've Liked it as well, and as you probably know, you're well over the 25 fan threshold by now. So, I tried searching for you, and learned that while a search for throws up a bunch of completely irrelevant results, a search for results in your business page as the first hit. Likewise, searching

[h-cost] historical socks

I am reminded of an advertising pamphlet that I ran across at the LOC American Memory website: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/ephemera/A01/A0173/A0173-01-72dpi.html from the late 19thC and which describes the evolution of the cut of the sock, particularly the heel. I'm not saying it's a great

Re: [h-cost] Downton Abbey

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 4:14 PM, WorkroomButtons.com wrote: > By "everyone," do you mean major pattern companies? Is PBS even on the > radar of the Big Three? It's a BBC show, rather than just a PBS show--and it's a popular one! Wouldn't surprise me if there's a bit of an uptick in interest in

Re: [h-cost] white and red cotton

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:44 PM, wrote: > "You must not mix new cotton with old nor red cotton with white." p. 89 > What does he mean by "red cotton"? It seems reasonable that he means the same thing I mean when I sort my clothes before doing the laundry... presumably there was some chance of

Re: [h-cost] Uniquely You dress form question [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Mine is only about 5 years old, but did take on the shape of its cover pretty thoroughly even in that short time... and since I made the cover lace on rather than zip on, it also had some well-defined lace impressions on it. When I took the cover off to wash it, I wound up leaving it in my sewing

[h-cost] OT Sherlock was Re: h-costume Digest, Vol 9, Issue 298

I've now seen the first episode (and am hooked) but I have to know--did anyone else have Princess Bride flashbacks during a certain scene? And to be slightly less off-topic, this show is NOT costumer friendly. I was trying to watch it while doing a little light hand-sewing, and didn't even notice

Re: [h-cost] Sherlock

Okay, I was about to post a "what on earth are you people talking about" post, but several minutes with google and my DVR answered that! For anyone else who didn't already know what they were talking about but is interested, it's a BBC series that will air on PBS starting Oct 24 at ...as Masterpi

Re: [h-cost] Greenberg and Hammer closed!

I've just started ordering from http://dragontowncorsetsupply.com/ ...only a small order so far, but I was very very happy with them--great customer service! It looks like they do wholesale, as well. -E House ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.in

Re: [h-cost] What would my ancestor have worn?

> Michelle, wondering what happened to the family fortune, LOL My grandfather actually researched that question for his side of my family, and the answer wound up being pretty interesting! Answers, rather, because the disappearing family fortune didn't happen just once. =} -E House

Re: [h-cost] Value of handmade costumes...

I haven't done anything about garb, but I was able to write my fabric stash into my homeowner's insurance, which was definitely a relief. For the garb, I think you might need to focus on replacement cost--if you were to hire someone else to re-make these for you, what would their total charge be?

Re: [h-cost] copyright law thing...

I've had to learn way more about copyright law than I ever wanted because I got into producing royalty free stock illustrations for an international company. Dealing with the copyright side of my work often takes much more time than the actual work. Since it is a truly international company, cont

Re: [h-cost] 20th c. Men's Hats

Wikipedia has a decent little pictorial glossary of hat styles, although some of their definitions don't necessarily match up with modern usage. (Beanies of the propeller type, for example, are not what you're likely to find for sale when you shop for beanies on the interweb...) http://en.wikiped

Re: [h-cost] A question on sewing fur

Rather than shaving the seam allowances, I leave out the seam allowances entirely (well, ok, maybe a teeny allowance--whatever it takes to keep the sinew from pulling through). Then I push the fur away from the edges, put the pieces together fur to fur, and whip-stitch by hand. (Don't pull the st

Re: [h-cost] Silk velvet

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Traci wrote: > I found my velvet at a small private store (not a chain and not online) in > the fabric district near me (Dallas) As someone who has tons of family in and around Dallas, I'd like very much to know more about this small private store... -E House ___

Re: [h-cost] Mysterious spots on cotton

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Lavolta Press wrote: > Or else maybe replace the flawed fabric with one guaranteed not break out in > spots? I can but hope... -E House ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/li

Re: [h-cost] Mysterious spots on cotton

volta Press wrote: > Why bother with dye remover? Personally, I'd just dye the fabric some color > darker than the spots.  Burgundy or purple sounds ideal. > > Fran > Lavolta Press > Books on historic costuming > http://www.lavoltapress.com > > > Elena House wrote:

[h-cost] Mysterious spots on cotton

Well, this is a first for me... I washed some brand new "natural" colored cotton coutil, and burgundy spots popped up all over it. Looks like some dye powder got on it before it was shipped to me, and now I'm stuck wondering: does dye remover weaken cotton? I've got a bunch of the stuff sold by D

Re: [h-cost] Viking alternate history--14thC/15thC Vinland?

Yeah, I rechecked my source, and apparently it's flax _for linseed oil_ that y'all are the biggest producer/exporter of. I think you should do something about that =} -E House On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Audrey Bergeron-Morin wrote: >> Right now, Canada is by far the biggest producer a

Re: [h-cost] Viking alternate history--14thC/15thC Vinland?

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Kim Baird wrote: > However, once they learned to weave from the Vikings, who knows what they > might have created? Look what the Navajo did once they got some sheep. Right now, Canada is by far the biggest producer and exporter of flax, so I bet that a Vinland ind

Re: [h-cost] Viking alternate history--14thC/15thC Vinland?

2009/9/30 Käthe Barrows : > The Mexican natives (Aztec, Maya, etc.), and those south of them > (Inca), wove of something like wool - goat? mountain sheep? - pre > European conquest. The Inca used llama, alpaca, and vicuña! A weaving industry started to appear in the area around 600-700 BC among t

Re: [h-cost] Viking alternate history--14thC/15thC Vinland?

I _think_ the Skraelings wore animal skins; the Inuit the Norse met did. There were bighorn sheep in the Rockies, but that's probably a bit far for an early colony! So yeah, good point; without importing some sheep or bringing in some flax seed (how easy is it to grow flax from seed?) they would

Re: [h-cost] Viking alternate history--14thC/15thC Vinland?

2009/9/29 Käthe Barrows : > Hmm.  Within a couple of centuries regular trade should have been > established.  And fur would be a major export to Europe. I'm sure that the parts of Europe where it was forbidden to hunt deer would have loved all that imported deerskin! Although maybe with that much

Re: [h-cost] Viking alternate history--14thC/15thC Vinland?

Well, I'm interested both in the modern day effects of a successful Vinland colony, and--since it's my favorite clothing era--in 14thC and 15thC Vinland fashions! But I'll take anything I can get. =} -E House 2009/9/29 Käthe Barrows : >> Assuming some influence from both sides of the merger, wh

Re: [h-cost] Viking alternate history--14thC/15thC Vinland?

2009/9/29 Käthe Barrows : > And I was thinking how they would look by the 21st century. [snip] I'm aware of minor differences between modern dress (mostly having to do with the level of formality people consider appropriate for everyday things) but yeah, I'm picturing the modern day results as bei

Re: [h-cost] Viking alternate history--14thC/15thC Vinland?

Everyone, please feel free to use this idea! I'd really love to see what someone other than me is picturing. =} -E House On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Ann Catelli wrote: > Whatever your conclusions--draw them up quickly & send them in to the Future > Fashion Folio for Costume-Con 28

Re: [h-cost] Viking alternate history--14thC/15thC Vinland?

I can definitely see that typical colonial reaction of anything from the homeland being better, but sheer scarcity would surely lead the colonists to make use of what's around them. I'm also thinking, though, about the many types of native clothing that European frontiersmen adopted, and how Ameri

[h-cost] Viking alternate history--14thC/15thC Vinland?

Ok, here's a challenge for the list's imagination--maybe you can help me out with a little thought experiment. Let's say that the whole c1000 Vinland expedition thing resulted in a viable colony; one that actually got along pretty well with the indigenous people (Skraelings) yet stayed in contact

Re: [h-cost] Color dye mixing

Ooo, lots of options there! If you were to use a bright, saturated blue, then yeah, you'd go purple. Or purplish, or purpler. If you were to use a dark blue with a lot of black to it, like a navy, you'd get something along the lines of a plum color, which could pass for burgundy. If you were to

Re: [h-cost] custom made brocades

I'm terribly interested, but I probably won't be able to afford it until fall/winter. I'd be happy to design several dozen patterns that I want as soon as I have a speck of spare time, though! =} -E House, who just spent her fabric budget for the year on the most recent-but-one Adobe software sui

Re: [h-cost] custom made brocades

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Zuzana Kraemerova wrote: > Price: pattermanikg fee: 10$ per cm**2 (you pay for the size of one pattern > that is to be repeated on the fabric.) Wow, you know, this just suddenly put the whole medieval textile industry into perspective for me, since the type of d

[h-cost] Fabric search solution--design your own

So, my desperate search for a specific print turned up a gem: http://www.spoonflower.com where you can design your own fabric. Right now you can only get it printed on either quilting fabric or light-weight upholstery fabric, but I have a feeling that a lot of people here could make great use of t

[h-cost] OT fabric search: obnoxious 50s/60s/70s print in avocado & orange

When I was around 16 or 17, I made my first bust supporting fitted gown. It was made out of some sort of slightly drapey wanna-be-linen cotton fabric with the most spectacularly obnoxious retro print I could find--and this being the height of the grunge era, I cannot begin to describe how much I en

Re: [h-cost] 20s-ish dress was: Peacock Wedding Dress

Well, yeah. I was more quoting the article than dating the gown--the movie it was inspired by(? or a costume from?) is supposed to be 1920s. Either way, it doesn't look like it's supposed to be a repro to me--it looks "inspired by." I do see that silhouette in films of the very late 20s, though.

[h-cost] 20s-ish dress was: Peacock Wedding Dress

Wow, this is one of the very very few celebrity retro-wannabe dresses I've ever liked: http://snipurl.com/fy932 -E House ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] Hook & Eye closures (was Club for enthusiasts o...)

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:15 PM, wrote: > I don't know if any of you have ever come across these, but on one of my > period gowns from the 1880's the bodice closes with little black hooks and > eyes that are quite unsual, and hard to explain, but the hook slides over > and the eyes or bars have

Re: [h-cost] silent film era scrap book

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Michelle Plumb wrote: > Wah! I wanna see all those lovely films but I live in Michigan! Ditto, except I'm in Vermont! (And strongly dislike California, having lived there twice.) But hey, there's 4 silent movies on TCM tonight... 8:00 PM Navigator, The (19

Re: [h-cost] Patterns date question

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Becky Rautine wrote: > It might even be worth something to them. I must admit, the "Cash in the Attic" watcher in me saw dollar signs. If I owned this scrapbook, though, I don't think I'd be able to part with it... thanks so much for photographing it and sharing i

Re: [h-cost] Patterns date question

PS--a few minutes with Google or the American Memory section of the Library of Congress website should help you find plenty of silent movie footage from the era. One thing to watch out for (or perhaps take notes on--you could use it for your costuming choices) is the fact that the filmmakers were

Re: [h-cost] Patterns date question

I love this period--been doing a lot of research on it, and saving a lot of images. They're on a different computer and I'm too lazy to walk all the way upstairs, though, so I'll make do down here... WWI in the Netherlands is a bit general: there are a lot of changes in fashion during those years

Re: [h-cost] Mary I ???

Kimiko got it! "Tudor Costume and Fashion" by Herbert Norris, p. 430. Google books has a preview copy of it online: http://snipurl.com/cy2vn -or- http://books.google.com/books?id=ynMUvGdHZhUC Well, they call it a preview, but it seems to be almost the whole book; just missing a page or two here

Re: [h-cost] Corset boning with zip ties

They do work well; they just have different properties than other types of boning. Zip/cable ties provide much lighter support and stiffening than steel of the same thickness. They bend more easily, which makes them ideal for the areas of a corset where you want the corset to shape itself to the

Re: [h-cost] Vietnamese loom

Well, I can't resist hawking my mother's book: http://www.amazon.com/Art-Bolivian-Highland-Weaving-Traditional/dp/0823002640 since the Bolivians make extensive use of the backstrap loom (and similar adaptations, along with other interesting primitive looms). The book focuses more on what's woven in

Re: [h-cost] looking for a website about a 13th century spanish burial

> The images I have are from: > http://www.kostym.cz/ which for some reason no longer seems to allow > direct links, and is otherwise being weird. Oh, PS--the Czech version of that site does seem to work, so here's some links: http://www.kostym.cz/Cesky/1_Originaly/01_Goticke/I_01_61.htm (Marie's

Re: [h-cost] looking for a website about a 13th century spanish burial

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Mary wrote: > Please help save my sanity. I saw a website about a year ago about a 13th > century > Spanish burial of a young girl. She had on a yellow silk overdress with blue > horizontal > stripes. I don't know this website, but I think you may mean the say

Re: [h-cost] Ladies Clothing - gentry, c. 1503

Ahh, with Margaret you're in a bit of luck: http://tudorhistory.org/people/margaret/marsketch.jpg >From what you've said, I think that what I wrote about English fashions pretty much carries over, especially if you're dealing with Margaret's court. -E House ___

Re: [h-cost] Ladies Clothing - gentry, c. 1503

I'll give you a quick general run-down; I haven't got it in me right now to look up all the documentation. Hopefully this'll give you a good starting point. I'm guessing you're interested in English styles, so I'll try to slant it that way, but I'll have to refer heavily to continental styles beca

Re: [h-cost] Ladies Clothing - gentry, c. 1503

What area? I've got tons from the continent, but very little (other than the occasional royals) for England. -E House On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Suzi Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone have web sites, or recommendations as to where I can find > pictures for this period. O

Re: [h-cost] corsets

Who's the author? And do you mind if I forward this to a couple of my corset groups? -E House On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 3:15 PM, JAMES OGILVIE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yesterday I got a "review" copy of a brand-new book called "Corsets: > Historical Patterns and Techniques". It looks like a

Re: [h-cost] Flat bottomed (and other) armholes

Why do you people have to have a discussion that I'm really interested in and would love to jump feet first into with a ridiculously long illustrated post, at a time when I have so much work I have to do instead that at 1 am, I still have many hours worth of work to do before I can sleep? Spoilspo

Re: [h-cost] New Topics-- please!!!!!

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Kass McGann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was referring to the discussion about the 15th century armholes as > illustrated in Houston and the Jeu de Hache pictures. They just make so > much sense to me! > > Kass > Not