To be precise, Amazon provides a front end for third-party
retailers. For instance, I found Argo being sold by Barnes Health Care. I
ASSUME Amazon takes a cut from every sale, so you might be doing the
retailers a favor by buying direct from them.
Claudine
Wow, you guys have some amazing search-fu.
I've made liquid starch from water and cornstarch, and just eyeballed how
much water I needed. Mostly my starch came out much thinner than I
wanted. Also, even keeping it in the fridge, it smells not so great (I
left some out once, and it just got
Hi Emily,
I've done some doll costuming. What kind of resources are you looking for?
Claudine
From: Emily Gilbert emchantm...@gmail.com
To: Historical Costume h-cost...@indra.com
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 8:15 AM
Subject: [h-cost] doll costuming
Having had my fun with hot glue, I say: no, too soft. For it to be
rigid enough, it would have to be thick, and that makes it not very good as a
stay.
Claudine
From: Sharon Collier sha...@collierfam.com
To: 'Historical Costume' h-cost...@indra.com
Sent:
1/8 wide zip ties, though they only come in short lengths. Long enough for
corsetry, though (yeah, been there, done that).
Claudine
From: Danielle Nunn-Weinberg gilshal...@comcast.net
To: Historical Costume h-cost...@indra.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 16,
I don't find prices at the physical stores to be in the same range as the
earlier poster quoted. The physical stores also tend to stock modern party
wear saris, and the modern motifs are sometimes just too modern for period
costuming (party saris are also generally poly or rayon, and I'm always
Frankly, what a lot of costumers do is just lop the boobs
off, corset the thing, and then pad to where your boobs would be. Those
spongy boobs just don't move the way real boobs do. I can't get my
Regency undergarments on my dummy, because they do a massive lift of my
boobs (so that I can get
Cin, I wouldn't bother buying a cover. Just draft or drape a
princess-seam sloper on yerself, with a center front seam and two
eyelets at CF, at your bustline. Then you just need the zipper. I made a cover
out of canvas because I found the material the stock cover is
made of to be awfully
Marjorie wrote:
The U You forms are _all_ too large for your
given size. Especially the boobage! My spouse and I went into hysterics
when we saw mine unboxed for the first time. She was so *excessively*
perky. . .
Oh, I know. It's designed that way. But
there's also a problem with how
I've gotten acid free tissue and archival storage boxes
(marketed for things like wedding gown storage) at The Container Store.
They're at a mall near you or online at http://www.containerstore.com .
Claudine
From: albert...@aol.com albert...@aol.com
To:
Folks,
These days it does not take a spammer gaining control of your email account.
Just clicking on the wrong thing can cause a malicious program to infiltrate
your account and snatch your address book.
The solution: be careful what you click.
Now, we all recognize spam when we see it (at
I have not done what you're describing, but I just checked with a friend who is
a jewelry maker. She says the stones would survive dry cleaning, but the color
may change. She said she wouldn't risk it.
I've sewn beads (glass pearls) onto fabric with a standard beading needle.
Claudine
VCR means video cassette recorder. Perhaps the writer had seen
some historic garments described on a video?
Well,
I know THAT (I'm not that young). There was some context missing in the
quote (get on the VCR... and what?) so it's possible that this was an
acronym for something else. If she
Best thing would be if you could post a photo of one or two of these garments
(spread out flat would be sufficient).
From
the description you quoted, these sound like just...shirts. Or shifts. I
don't think sacque is a term used for these garments either in that
time period or
The heaviest single article in all my undergarments is a quilted petticoat,
BUT: it's cotton on the outside, cotton batting on the inside. In the
period (1750 to, oh, say 1810), this petticoat would more likely have
had wool batting, and either wool broadcloth or silk on the outsides.
I've
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