Re: [h-cost] Re: What do you do?

2006-07-06 Thread J Schueller
This is a GREAT idea. I think tomorrow morning I am going to ask my neighbor if i can take her dog out for a walk and go to the little lake in our development! i hope it becomes a habit! katherine sanders wrote: Above all, get out and walk every day! If you can borrow a dog or walk with a

Re: [h-cost] What do you do?

2006-07-05 Thread J Schueller
I just stop for several months, and look around, go visit my family (just got back from a three month trip driving from long island, NY to Dallas, TX, and back again. put on over 7,000 miles on my truck. i stopped all along the way to visit any family that i know about, even one third cousin

Re: [h-cost] narnia movie

2005-12-12 Thread J Schueller
Ok, I agree that the queen's first dress was majorly weird, but I actually liked how the dreadlocks looked, i thought they were cool. of course, I (a blond blue eyed white girl) had dreadlocks once so i obviously like them. jordana ___ h-costume

[h-cost] Flemish Workingwomen -Black Partlets -a question

2005-11-22 Thread J Schueller
I am going to be making tomorrow (wed, nov23) one of the black partlets shown in some of AERTSEN's work. Some examples of a painting with some of these partlets is http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/a/aertsen/ (in the ninth, tenth and eleventh paintings down). These partlets seem to

Re: [h-cost] Flemish Workingwomen -Black Partlets -a question

2005-11-22 Thread J Schueller
, I really sweated the placement of pieces because the fabic was like $30 a yard-worth every penny, but not something I would normally buy. J Schueller Says: However, I am wondering if i should make the partlet out of one layer, and just make the inside seams as pretty as I can, or should I

Re: [h-cost] Eras and places (was hippies)

2005-09-03 Thread J Schueller
On the topic of the south and hoop skirts Were the hoop skirts popular later in the south then the north? I mean, our (ok, mine and I am a typical yankee) picture of THE SOUTH is alweays with ladies in hoops, but I would assume that the north had just as many ladies wearing hoops at the

Re: [h-cost] Cheap? wool and linen

2005-08-25 Thread J Schueller
Diana Habra wrote: Two ccheap? fabric mentions. http://www.fabricmartfabrics.com/wool_gabardine.htm $5 a yard wool gabardines, but the colors are ...BRIGHT Remember, though, that wool takes dye very well and all you would have to do is buy some RIT dye and use your washer to create

[h-cost] Storing Outfits

2005-08-19 Thread J Schueller
I have a question about storage. I do not store my historic clothing on hangers mostly, I fold or roll up and put into cloth bags that i make for each outfit (the bag has a listing of each part of the outfit and what needs to brought along that is not in the bag), then I put the bags into

[h-cost] New (to me) book

2005-08-03 Thread J Schueller
Hello everyone. I just picked up a new (to me) book at the library, and I thought others might be intrested in it as it seems to have a bunch of pictures and details of the pics. Private Lives in Renaissance Venice by Patricia Fortini Brown

Fitting t-tunics was:Re: [h-cost] Re: Future ware(gloves)

2005-07-15 Thread J Schueller
, and the right materials (natural fibers so ROCK!). --sue J Schueller wrote: (Nothing against tee tunics, mind you, or any of the style-cousins, but many of the ones I've seen are old, sloppy, and badly-fitting. The nicely-fitting ones have just as much Yum! factor as other clothing styles. ;oD