My Appologies..for remembering incorrectly...but i was sure I heard it at a lecture bye JAnet in the early 90's..guess i must be getting senile...sorry. Bambi
Suzi Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume Bambi (To be named ater) TBNL I am made for great things by GOD and walk with Pride!!!! Walladah bint al Mustakfi c 900ad (please correct me if i have the date wrong!) --------------------------------- Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
