Suzi, I would love to see the pictures and some of the info you collected. Can you add me to the list - e-mail me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Sarah
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send h-costume mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of h-costume digest..." Today's Topics: 1. My trip to Washington - report - some O.T. (Suzi Clarke) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 21:52:40 +0100 From: Suzi Clarke Subject: [h-cost] My trip to Washington - report - some O.T. To: Historical Costume Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed First I would like to thank everyone who came up with suggestions on where to stay and what to see. The Hotel Harrington was ideal - walking distance to wherever we wanted to go to, clean, a bit shabby, but really helpful staff. I got to spend a whole day (!) at the DAR Museum, looking at female clothing from +/- 1780-1820. Alden O'Brien asked a colleague, a former curator, to join us, and then simply opened drawers and asked if we wanted to see the contents. There were short gowns, altered gowns, corsets, a bodiced petticoat, fans, pockets, purses, a few fashion plates referring to a couple of garments we were looking at........... The next day we started off for Virginia, but got seriously distracted by G street Fabrics, where I topped up the stash, and bought several items from the Notions department. (DH meanwhile was buying shoes.) The former curator very kindly arranged for Anne and I to meet with Linda Baumgarten at Colonial Williamsburg for an hour and a half, where we got to see some ladies' garments of the same period, plus drawers full of quilted petticoats, pockets and stomachers. We over-ran our time, so Linda sent me the details of what we saw, which I will enjoy checking out once my brain stops aching. I spent some very pleasant,if busy, days with Anne, her DH and my DH, including a trip to see Colonial Williamsburg - the town - and Jamestown. We only hit one fabric store, honest, and I only bought a couple of notions, no fabric. On the morning of the day we left, Mary, the former curator, met me, showed me some more items from her personal collection and we then had a very rushed visit through the National Gallery of Art in Washington, where there is a wonderful Venetian exhibition currently on show, I also bought a few (not!) postcards to add to my collection. If anyone would like more details, I will be sending a newsletter to my friends and colleagues who are interested. I can add you to the list. Unfortunately there will not be photos, as I signed forms to keep them to myself, and not publish on the internet. (Quite normal with museum collections.) Suzi ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume End of h-costume Digest, Vol 5, Issue 521 ***************************************** --------------------------------- How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messengers low PC-to-Phone call rates. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
