I dumped my copy of Peacock as useless, and wonder why I ever
bought it. At
least the illustrations in Wilcox are fun.
--
Carolyn Kayta Barrows
Indeed, indeed. I keep wanting to buy reference copies of newer
books and commercial patterns that are patently awful. Also to watch
the recent spate of Pre-Raphaelite painter calendars, yipes.
I happen to like pre-Raphaelite and Gothic Revival Medieval costumes, for
what they are rather than for what they aren't. I even have vague plans to
make one, someday...
--
Carolyn Kayta Barrows
--
“The future is already here, it
All we could find (and we considered it a find) was Norris. :-)
Back in 1971 when I joined the SCA nobody had Janet Arnold. But thanks to
(I think) Dover, we could get Wilcox.
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Norris was my first costume resource that was an actual costume book. when
I started doing faire, it was just about all we had , with a few others of
the same ilk, until Janet Arnold burst on the scene and Changed Everything.
MaggiRos
Maggie Secara
~A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603
We are all aware, right, that this book is not proper
documentation, being nothing but re-drawings from unidentified sources?
Maggie Secara
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the Mode-in books were considered very doubtful sources. All of them.
That's Ruth Turner Wilcox, and The Mode In Costume was originally published
in 1948.
Interesting also, speaking of re-drawings, to compare any garment which
appears both in Janet Arnold and Nancy Bradfield, and there are
On Jul 5, 2009, at 10:14 PM, Käthe Barrows wrote:
We need to remember that any redrawing is a secondary source at best.
Sometimes Wilcox is not even a secondary source. My favorite
example she
got from Vecellio, who wasn't a primary source either. (Wilcox
substituted
heeled shoes and
She did violence to a number of Vecellio's images--I actually used Wilcox
to make my very first Renaissance costume in high school and years later
found out that the image I used was Vecellio's imperfect interpretation of
the previous century re-drawn with improvements by Wilcox. Needless to
