Your day sounds much like mine. The most difficult problem for me has been getting customers to keep to business hours when it comes to the telephone! "No, I am not happy to take your call between the hours of 6PM and Am!! Call me when the shop is open." ( And don't show up on a Sunday afternoon and expect that the shop is..or can be open!!) We solved that one by taking off for the day sometime after 9AM and get home maybe after dark.
I will take appointments between 9Am and noon on Saturday...if I have to. Funny thing, came the day when I realized that none of the costume shops or suppliers worked aft Noon on Saturday and so I liberated myself. The other problem work related is how easy (or hard not to) let the shop inventory travel into the living quarters.. kathleen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Suzi Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 1:27 PM Subject: Re: Victorian ideas of Renaissance clothing, was Re:[h-cost]italian childs renaissance dress > At 18:14 15/02/2006, you wrote: > >I have in my collection just such a gown of the '70s that got reshaped and > >trotted out as QE1! It is indeed a hoot. > > My very favorite of these can be seen at The Museum of the City of NY: A > >purple velvet number of the late '70/ early '80s and worn by Mrs. Astor. > >She went to the party as "a Light Bulb"!! Her Diamond headdress provided > >the twinkling lights. > > > I have a recent purchase of a fashion plate from the 1890's of a > "Bookworm" - it was in German, so it took me a while to fathom out! > > Suzi > > > > > > >>>Found this, and thoaght some of you might not have seen it yeat. > > > > > >>>http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?coll_keywords=dress&submit. > >x=3&submit.y=10&coll_start=81 > > > >>> > > > > > >>I got to playing around with the search engine, and found this > > > >>interesting gown, from the House of Worth. > > > >>http://tinyurl.com/92mz4 > > > >> > > > >>I found it amusing that they would do a renaissance style gown for > > > >>the well to do. I could almost see this gown on a "friend of faire" > > > >>person, someone who likes to dress up with something that looks > > > >>kinda right, but isn't. > > > >> > > > >>And in purple velvet, it's rather fetching. > > > >> > > > >>Kimiko > > > > > > I have a fashion print showing "historical" outfits for a fancy dress > > > (costume) ball in the 1880s. It's hilarious from a costumer's > > > viewpoint. Imagine Mary Queen of Scots with an 1880s shape. :-D Very > >funny. > > > > > > > > > Joan Jurancich > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
