Re too high temp and melt down, When cotton/poly fabric first appeared, I made a very nice fullsleeved shirt for the hero in "Arms and the Man". At dress rehearsal, he climbed through a window, coming in over a table that had a lighted candle on it. Voila, instant melt down which adhered to his arm. End of rehearsal!...and off to the ER. The next evening he appeared with a very realistic battle dressing and the shirt did not get mended 'til way later, (and the candle of course got repositioned). I had lots of fun using all the newest fibers in the 1970's. Some were just great and some were all wrong! Since theater is often all about allusion, and the budget was nil, the fun was in the experimentation to see how close I could come to making the faux fabric look like the real thing.
Kathleen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nancy Kiel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 6:32 AM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Sewing on the body... Unless you iron garments at too high a temperature, and the fibers melt..... ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Historical Costume<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 1:30 PM Subject: [h-cost] Sewing on the body... Denise said, > ahhh...so *that* is why the instructions that come with an iron actually > specify "Do Not Attempt to Iron Garments While Being Worn"! > > Silly me, I thought it was common sense safety... No, not at all, it's complete superstitious nonsense. Elderly relatives will claim it causes huge blisters and worse, but there is no real cause & effect. :-) _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
