Good evening all, Many of the costumers out there will already have heard about 'Am I Period or Not' (or AIPON for short) but recently the flow of new photo submissions has slowed to a trickle (we've had one new photo in the last three months), so for those who have never heard of it or those who have new outfits (or new photos of old outfits) please consider submitting a photo of your work and enjoy the virtual adulation of people all across the globe. The re-enactment season is starting up soon in the Northern Hemisphere so if you've made something new over the winter send us a photo while it's still pristine so in a few years time you can show people how good it used to look before it got dragged through the mud, torn, mended, mysteriously stained etc. ;-) If you have a photo of a costume you have made, from any period of history, please submit it to 'Am I Period Or Not' http://au.geocities.com/amiperiodornot/ . The 16th century costumers still seem to be the most productive set (with more photos submitted than any other era), with the 19th century a close second. But there are so many other styles out there and it would be fabulous if we could see what costumers have been doing in all eras (even ones that never really existed like Lord of the Rings). Our Dark Ages and Byzantine section remains sadly empty, but I know there are a lot of Viking costumers who do some spectacular work (of course the section is not just for Vikings but Viking history is very popular with re-enactors). Please pass this on to anybody you think would be interested, after all it's much quicker and simpler to email a photo to us (see http://au.geocities.com/amiperiodornot/photos.htm for submission rules) than setting up your own webpage (even if you do have your own webpage you can always put photos of your work on AIPON and include a link to your webpage to give people the full story). If you are unfamiliar with the concept here's a brief summary: People send in photos of the historical costumes they've made, the photos are loaded onto a website where people can view them, vote on how period accurate they are (or in the case of fantasy creations how creative or accurate to what they are recreating) and leave comments. While the original site (run by Kirrily Roberts a few years ago) was for pre 1600 costume only The New Am I Period Or Not website covers the fashions of any era you like, from the first civilisations to the day before yesterday (plus imaginary eras). The comments on the website are monitored and any offensive content will be removed as soon as we (the moderating team) are aware of it, we can't guarantee that such comments won't be posted but we can guarantee that we will do our best to keep on top of it and remove comments as soon as possible. I hope to see a flood of new and interesting photos in response to this email. Elizabeth -------------------------------------------- Elizabeth Walpole Canberra Australia ewalpole[at]tpg.com.au http://au.geocities.com/e_walpole/
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