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From: "Suzi Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 11:12 AM
Subject: [h-cost] When and how did you start making costume?
In discussion with a couple of friends at the weekend, we fell to talking
about when we started sewing. One friend is a re-enactor,
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I started early, at the age of 6 years to make clothes for my Barby dolls.
My mom teached me. And i continued this many years. I did play with model
trains, and toy cars also, but i always enjoyed the dolls more.
At the age of 12 i started to try to make an 18th century hoop petticoat,
and i used canes. I loved to play with draping on the hoop.
Then in my pubity, stopped this mostly because it was embarrasing for me, if
my friends would discover this strange behaviour of mine.
I loved to draw ladies dressed in 18th century style, and even at the school
in the drawing lessons, i continuously did this.
I didnt think about a career with this, then, and actually i started an
education after school to become a ship navigator. I went trough tests, and
was hired for a danish shipping company. They sended me to a officers
school, one of the hardest and most oldfashioned schools in Denmark called
Kogtved Søfartsskole.
Later when i went to sea, i longed for my family and i skipped this
education. Many in my family, shamed me to do such a thing because it was a
wonderfull future career i skipped.
I went to entrance examination to the danish design school and i was
getting in.
I studyed 4 years here, and i was like a fish in water.
The end, i have told you all about before, i made costumes for renaissance
dansers as my final test.
And i dont have a cat. If i would be allowed in this flat, i would have a
King Charles Spanniel.
Bjarne
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