Well, they might consider reinactors--for like the Civil War gowns and underpinnings by Martha McCain and the newer Patterns from History that are far more authentic, but I think they consider the main potential buyers as Halloween and high school, college, and the local community playhouse. Reinactors would get at least patterns that are more easily alterable than starting from scratch. I'm willing to bet that most of those designers for the historical costumes start out with far more authentic patterns and then have to modify them for a mass audience to a greater or lesser degree.
Last I heard of Martha McCain, on this list, I think, was a year or so ago. If I remember right, she was working on 18th century costumes. It would be great to get mass-market patterns that finally get the 18th century bodice and sleeves right! I remember doing an Eleanor of Toledo dress by buying 2 or 3 RenFaire type costumes years ago from McCall's and Simplicity at 99 cents each(not having the skill or the equipment to enlarge the Arnold pattern on my apartment wall in order to trace it out.) I altered the bodice patterns to fit me first and then redrew the patterns to match Arnold. Still pretty time-consuming, but without a dressmaker's dummy in the size of yours truly, it was the cheapest way to go. Cindy Abel -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 12:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [h-cost] New Simplicity patterns In a message dated 7/23/2007 11:42:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do they want to sell the patterns to reenactors as well, or just for the Halloween crowd? ************** Ahhhh...there lies the rub. I think in this specific instance it the "I wanna look like the film Marie Antoinette" crowd. Maybe they figure reenactors can see past the Halloween look. ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
