A great idea, Penny. Now, just to complicate your life further, have you thought about linking the name of the colour to an actual colour sample eg using the Pantone colour charts? ;-P So that people can see what the colour is, as opposed to being just a name and date/s, albeit some very evocative ( & provocative? Dead Spaniard!!!? ) names. http://www.pantone.com/ http://www.colorguides.net/?referrer=Adwords
Joannah --- "Penny Ladnier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: "Penny Ladnier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 05:31:28 -0400 To: "h-costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [h-cost] Celebration! YIPPEE!!!! 10 years of work is finally online!!! My Fashion Color Database, http://www.fcdatabase.com/ is live online! The old-timers on the list, just fell of their chairs... yes, it really has been ten years. Ten years ago on h-costume (I was a student in college) and asked a question, "What color is Dead Spaniard?" It was one of my first messages to h-costume. (Lurkers see what you can get into from just asking one question!) I was doing research for a costume history paper and thought it was the funniest name for a color. We had a good laugh about color names thread on the list. This one question lead me on the search of my life... to document fashion color names, their usage, description/definition, and trends. My paper was supposed to be 4 pages long... it ended up 30 pages long. Between that time and 1998, I had documented about 4,000 names. I searched non-stop on the names. Then my computer crashed and I lost everything in the database but my original college research. My heart was broken. So I switched my focus to building up our online Library. I picked back up my color research as I worked on the Library. Today, there is almost 1500 entries in the database, but they are online now! H-costume gets the first look at the Fashion Color Database (FCD)... Since the h-costume old-timers inspired me to search harder and to dust myself off after my computer crashed. The FCD is part of our subscription area of our Library. I am going to leave the database password FREE until Sunday morning, so you all can see it. Please remember that there are some links to the Library website in the color name *details* comment area. Those links are still password protected. You will know when you hit them a gray password box will popup. Just hit cancel and click you back button. I still have a couple of glitches that I am working on... the Articles and Bibliography links from the menu are not live yet. I do suggest that everyone look over the FAQ section before doing searches in the database. The database can be picky. Make sure to read the parts about how-to-do a search. There is a Color Name Index, that provides an alphabetical listing of the color names in the database. Beside each name is a date(s). That is the year(s) of usage or documentation for that color name. The Index area will always be in the free area of the site. I hope you all enjoy the FCD! I am so thrilled to finally have the it online!!! Penny E. Ladnier Owner, The Costume Gallery, www.costumegallery.com Costume Classroom, www.costumeclassroom.com Costume Research Library, www.costumelibrary.com _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _____________________________________________________________ Sluggy.Net: The Sluggy Freelance Community! _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
