Amazon just keeps giving me a longer estimated date of delivery for Tudor Tailor. After going thru my previous orders with Amazon I found out I had never received a book with estimated time of delivery date May 17 2002 -July 2 2002. This book is still offered on their site?? and now it's cheaper than what I paid 4 yrs. ago. I plan to cancel the order as soon as I get an explanation of why it wasn't shipped sometime in the last 4 yrs.. So far all I've got is past the buck and standard form returns. Now I'm worried about getting this book so I email often. Brin Kendall
E House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I haven't received my copy yet--I've been having really bad luck with pre-orders lately!--but I want to make a few comments anyway, particularly on the skimpy yardage issue. I think we have a false idea of how much yardage they did use; this might not be surprising, considering how lush many paintings make dresses look, but if you examine the yardage given in inventories and in the few survivng pattern books, you might find those very skimpy indeed, in terms of the modern yardage used to make the same styles. In other words, I think Ninya et al have research to back up the skimpiness. Speaking of which, there's certainly a lot of evidence to back up mismatched patterns on fabric as well! The headwear, though, based on what I've seen of their work in general, I do have serious reservations about. I fall into the French-hoods-lay-flat-or-at-least-flattER camp, and though I have seen one or two paintings/images of hoods that stand up a bit (like the recent profile portrait of Mary that was discussed here a few weeks back), it's generally like nails on a chalkboard for me to see an otherwise accurate recreation of a style spoiled by a hood that stands up like that, especially when it clearly doesn't in the original. Also, I am bothered by the whatchamacallits, the striped and crossed strips 'padding' on the gable headdresses. I have yet to see a recreation of those that looked RIGHT to me, and it's frustrating, since I don't have any bright ideas for how to make them look right, either, apart from actually stuffing them in some complicated way to make them puffy but not TOO puffy. But I'm still very much looking forward to finally getting the book! And I'm a bit relieved that I'm not the only one who has yet to receive her pre-ordered copy--anyone else not have theirs yet? I just sent a slightly panicky email to Ninya because I couldn't find any record of the order in my Paypal account! -E House PS--I don't have my pre-ordered new Geoff Egan book, either. Talked to Amazon, and it turns out that they basically put the non-preorders ahead of the pre-orders in line, because the pre-orders had been bought at a discounted price. Then they ran out before they got around to filling all the pre-orders. Infuriating! So now my book, pre-ordered sometime around the beginning of Dec 2005, will arrive at the earliest by the middle of May 2006. I don't think I'm going to bother to pre-order anymore. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume --------------------------------- Enrich your life at Yahoo! Canada Finance --------------------------------- Make Yahoo! Canada your Homepage Yahoo! Canada Homepage _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
