It sounds like my solution wouldn't help in this particular situation, but
what I do when underwire bras become intolerable due to MS-related
spasticity (all my muscles tighten up so that any pressure on them is
painful) is wear a hip-length BSFG (bust supporting fitted gown).
Best support
Metal split/2-part corset busks were invented in 1829 by a French corsetier,
so it's certainly possible, even though they weren't immediately widespread.
Being a fashion plate, this would likely show the most avant garde features!
The loop post type of fastening for the metal 2-part corset
No, that wasn't in the auction description--it's the result of Google
searching. Not saying that it's definitely true; just that the only places
I found that attributed the image to anyone said Gheeraerts.
-E House
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From: otsisto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://tinyurl.com/5gvnl4
Well, to be fair, there's some small possibility it is a portrait of AB; it
could just be posthumous.
...and, it looks like that may be the case. It's attributed to Marcus
Gheeraerts the younger, as a
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From: Karen Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have the right bust and hips, but no way is my
waist that tiny - and when it was many years ago
the rest of me was also much tinier. Ay yi yi!
Hey, it only said that the _grace_ could not be acquired by artificial
means. It
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From: Penny Ladnier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BTW, E-house are you a princess with all that grace?
Hey, I never said I had grace--just 42 hips! My point was that the
description didn't rule out using artificial means to achieve the _physical_
measurements.
-E House
I'm also terminally outta luck--5'10 and just can't win. Too fat to be a
model today, too tall to be a model any other time. (And you'd think that
what with models today being 7' tall, it'd be a bit easier to find clothing
for tall people...)
The great thing about being into historical
And though I haven't really looked at their copyright rules too much,
there's a ton of photos from that era at the Library of Congress's American
Memory website:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
-E House
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From: Cozit / Liz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Of *course*!!! Why didn't I think of the Library of Congress??? Thanks
E House!
Hee. I only thought of it because I was actively looking at it at the same
time as I was reading h-cost! I also forget it far too often.
In case anyone had trouble finding the pocket on the Museo Del Traje
website, here's the enlarged photo:
http://snipurl.com/290d3 [museodeltraje_mcu_es]
And here's the inventory [inventario] number: CE000790
As far as when they started carrying pockets goes, brace yourselves as I
make a
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Congratulations on the house. House in the house! Sorry, I had to try. :)
Hee, thanks! Hey, after almost 11 years of marriage, I still haven't gotten
over being amused by my own last name. (And it gets even better--the
husband just
I'm not 100% sure this company mails to Europe, but it seems worth a try:
http://www.designerfabrics.ca/shop/scripts/
-E House
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Last I heard, Fashion Fabrics Club had begun mailing worldwide, and they
often have silk ottoman:
http://www.fashionfabricsclub.com
-E House
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On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:49:15 -0700 Wanda Pease [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Since my migraines are pressure triggered, I'm
pretty miserable even though I really love the green this produces
as well as the coolness!
Not to glory in your pain, but I'm very relieved
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From: Schaeffer, Astrida [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where in NH?
I'll be within commuting distance of Dartmouth, but I'm willing to drive a
few hours to get my costuming jollies. I'm not willing to go as far as NYC,
but anything in New England or even possibly the bits of
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From: Robin Netherton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(E., where did you get 1484? The website says 1515-23.)
That's another case of different sources, different dates, but 1515-1523
must be a website type; it's way out. This is one of his earlier works, and
the style of the
This was originally posted on the Real Regency mailing list, but the clothing
has a much wider appeal than just early 19thC:
http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EURscreen=CatalogueiSaleNo=16286
OR
http://snipurl.com/25vmj [www_bonhams_com]
-E House
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From: Ruth Anne Baumgartner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
... And a friend who works at the stage supply
company says she can always recognize one particular community-
theater box office tape on the phone because the speaker has a phony
British accent, which people seem to
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From: Kate M Bunting [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I love St. Margaret's bag. It's uncannily like the Greek shepherds'
bags which we all carried our books in when I was a student in the early
70s.
It's also very similar to the mochilas carried in many parts of South
I've seen several definitive answers on this (and other) lists, but I'm
afraid that they were all different. The one that stuck in my head best (I
think a letter was quoted) was 5'7 with her cousin being too tall at
5'9, but of course that means absolutely nothing, since a) I could be
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From: Dawn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Some of those books really are not that bad.
...
Although most of the books listed date from the 40's to the 70's and have
been out of print for decades, they still show up and can be useful
sources.
Along those lines, as I am busy
In a move to disseminate faculty research and scholarship more broadly, the
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted Tuesday (Feb. 12) to give the
University a worldwide license to make each faculty member’s scholarly articles
available and to exercise the copyright in the articles, provided
My method developed from a blend of laziness and perfectionism, and the lack
of a sewing helper. I put the dress on (inside out, if I plan for it to be
unwashable). Then I grab a chalk marker or colored pencil, and stand beside
my kitchen counter.
My kitchen counter happens to be just the
- Original Message -
From: Robin Netherton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
He did not indicate a tilde on the n, but that may have been his
omission.
Definitely a common omission--and the definition of paño fits so well I'd
bet that's what happened.
My colleague's exact words in his e-mail were
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From: Robin Netherton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...I am not quite sure why he thinks that scarlet is involved in this
quotation (but I don't know the words berjemo or pano so perhaps one of
them is translated as scarlet).
Berjemo is an archaic word for red, though it
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From: Sharon Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In the book, Victorian and Edwardian Fashion, by Alison Gernsheim, there
is
a photo of a woman in a dress with a very similar neckline. It is dated
1845. (plate 14, if you have the book)
Speaking of that book, if you'll turn
Hee, this post I made to another list a few months back is still pretty much
word-for-word applicable:
--
I have a Uniquely You dress form, and overall I'm happy with it. But... I
had to do a lot of work on it to get it to that point. Though I ordered the
size that I should
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From: Alexandria Doyle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just made a pair of bodices that was boned, yet intended to wear as
the outer garment on more casual occasions, under a more formal gown
when dressing up. I am trying to gather all the documentation that
I can on the
Looking at my copy of Holbein in England from the Tate, which has a decent
but still too small image of this one, it looks like there's just not enough
detail in the sketch itself to say for sure. There's definitely something
there, but it's just a sort of a v-shape where the lines meet, with
This DVD:
http://www.digitale-bibliothek.de/scripts/ts.dll?mp=/art/1716/
might be useful to you; you can see the types of images it has at:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Yorck_Project
In fact, you could just as easily browse through all they have in the second
link (keep hitting
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...
The dramtic rise in obestity, heart disease, cancer, autoimmune diseases
like
MS, type II diabeties, and the host of other western diseases aka the
diseases
of the kings are due to our SAD diet and lifestyle. You are what you eat
and
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