At 17:05 16/11/2007, you wrote:
HAs ANybody got a copy of or know how to get a copy of the Jane
Asher..( remember the ORIGINAL Paul McCartney gal back in the 60's?)
book for fancy dress or costuming or somthing.. ,I had a copy onece
but in all the oves and after an unfortunate 5 year marriage with a
book fobic neanderthal...many of my books were destroyed, but this
string reminds me of that book. what I remember
1. JAnes own daughter or granddaughter dressed in a little girls
Queen Elizabth I jeweled costume made out of thirft shop antique
draperies, a humongous paper doily ruff , and jewles out of
individually wrapped hard candies like Charmes nestled in gilded hot
glue settings with gilded hot glue "couching" drawing hatching
patterns between each one...really pretty COOL!!!
a grown man ( JAmes Coburn) actually modeling a "jailbird" costume
of horizontally srtiped shirt with a convits number written on a
card across his chset and the piece de ressistance... huge bird feet .
Haly MIlls dress I believe in a huge brightly colored tube with
milar hair decorations...( she was a firecraker)
I do not remember the title of the book but it was TOTALLY UNFOGETABLE
and reminded me even then to keep my sence of humore about all
costuming..even the most serious period stuff..
THe LAte GREAT Jante Arnolde ,herself told stories of costuming for
the BBC's 6 Wives of HEnry the Eight , which sort of launched her
popularity among the unenitiated back then..and yet...she admited
that with no budget to speak of,and no time to do it in...she and
her "little shop" resorted to thift shop curtains, sometimes tunred
insied out and spray painted with cake doilies for templated to
make large brocade like patterns and stiffent the fabrics...
chuckle. She also said if she had has a clue they were going to be
asked for to used in other series...that SHE was to costume much
later...she might have paid a bit more attention to whater or not
the paints and the goddess know WHAT fabrics were compatible or
would eat each other up in storage..chuckkle
I'm sorry, but I have to correct you. The person who made the "Wives"
costumes for the BBC series was not Janet Arnold, but Jean Hunnisett.
Janet was not a costumer but an historian. Jean was on the staff of
the BBC at the time, and went on to make all Glenda Jackson's
costumes for "Elizabeth R". I helped Jean to refurbish some of the
"Wives" costumes when they were on show at Hampton Court in the
1980's, and Coke bottle tops, metal chains, pieces of laces sprayed
gold, furnishing fabrics, gum drops (a kind of round sweet), resin
were all put to good use. By the time "Elizabeth R" came around the
BBC realised they were on to a good thing, and actually gave Jean a
reasonably decent budget.
Suzi
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