At 10:31 17/08/2005, you wrote:
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!
Congratulations - an epic project indeed. I just hope that when I
start looking I will find *my* favourite - "Goose-turd green"!!
Suzi
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