Re: [h-cost] What costume-related gifts did everyone get?

2015-12-26 Thread Lavolta Press
In terms of what I'm doing, right now it's making drapes. Or more like, buy curtain rods, return half of them because they're theoretically Arts & Crafts style but they're ugly, buy more rods. Buy brass electrical plates, return half of them because they are a lovely Art Nouveau style but over

Re: [h-cost] What costume-related gifts did everyone get?

2015-12-26 Thread Patricia Dunham
Well, I got my husband the civil war uniform pattern from McCall's for his some-day Steampunk wardrobe. We haven't sewn for SCA or anything else in years, sigh. He got me a truckload of period cookery resources, but the next MC&T isn't gonna' be out until Feb or some-such. A whole buncha' stuff

Re: [h-cost] What costume-related gifts did everyone get?

2015-12-25 Thread annbwass
- From: Lavolta Press To: Historical Costume Sent: Fri, Dec 25, 2015 1:43 pm Subject: [h-cost] What costume-related gifts did everyone get? My husband gave me the following books: The First Book of Fashion: The Book of Clothes of Matthaeus and Veit Konrad Schwarz of Augsburg Fashion Plates: 150

[h-cost] What costume-related gifts did everyone get?

2015-12-25 Thread Lavolta Press
My husband gave me the following books: The First Book of Fashion: The Book of Clothes of Matthaeus and Veit Konrad Schwarz of Augsburg Fashion Plates: 150 Years of Style, by April Calahan Regency Women's Dress: Techniques and Patterns 1800-1830, by Cassidy Percoco and a biography: Queen Vi