First, I want to thank everyone who helped two weeks ago with the dance terms and origins from the Ringling Mansion's Ballroom murals. I compiled most of your answers and put them on the slideshow. I know have a website for all the slideshows. You can see them at www.costumeslideshows.com . Scroll down to the John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art and click on the Ballroom to view the show. The American Dance panels are still questionable. But I am researching.
I am sorry for being late with the thank yous. I have been working on several slideshows. My contract with Ringling is that all their images, are free access but can not be saved to the visitors computers. Last week, I added another slideshow from the Ringling Museum's Circus Collection. This showcases 30 costumes with 95 photos. I am alternating between putting slideshows online for the Ringling collection and VCU's. When I finish the VCU slideshow that I am working on, I will be putting online either John Ringling wardrobe from the 1920s-early 1930s or Mrs. Ringling rose garden statues...all representing the 1700s. H-costume was also discussing the HBO mini-series "John Adams." A good bit of the show was filmed in the Richmond, Virginia area. A large set was built just north of the Richmond and used for early Boston, early and late Philly. My son, Patrick, worked as a CGI extra for the reading of the Declaration of Independence (DofI) scene. He took my camera to set and photographed the fifteen CGI extras. I have a slideshow of these people on my slideshow site. It is also free access. The business owner who supplied these costumes for the JA series was a member of h-costume. I am not sure if she is still on the list, but I met her here. The mini-series has a special On-Demand about how CGI was used heavily in the making of the show. For example, the bottom floor of Independence Hall was on set in Richmond, the upper floor and roof was CGI-ed in. Well, this group of CGI extras, were not really present when the principal actors read the DofI. They moved around on set and wer! e filmed then they were CGI-ed into the scene. The first second of the Reading scene on film, we counted my son at least 10 times. Easy to spot the long brown ponytail...which is his natural hair and hairstyle. I need more help, please (batting my eyelashes, if that would help.) I am writing descriptions for dresses from 1910-1914. My memory is brain-dead on a couple of terms. Can you please look at two photographs and let me know what the terms are called. 1. Image: http://www.costumegallery.com/temp/P1030368.jpg . This is a skirt section of a dress. The overdress has two panels hanging from the waist. They are gathered on the hanging end and married by a rosette. My questions: Is there a period term for these hanging panels? I know I have seen this same type of treatment for curtains. But I can not even recall the name for this type of curtains. 2. Image: http://www.costumegallery.com/temp/P1030429.jpg . These medallions are borders on a three-tiered net dress. My question: What is the name of the type of hand-crochet around the medallions? It is a cotton thread very similar what is used on doilies. I am so embarrassed that I can't remember this term. I have made this type of crochet so many times. It is made by using a double or triple crochet, then chain two or three and then repeat. There are three rows of this type of crochet around each medallion. Penny Ladnier, Owner, The Costume Gallery Websites www.costumegallery.com www.costumelibrary.com www.costumeclassroom.com www.costumeencyclopedia.com _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
