Hello, here's a question for those of you attending the Costume Society of America annual meeting this week:
If you get a chance to hear David Rickman's paper on pirates (in the session on costume in film) would you please share any resources you gained? Or tidbits of information, or anything else! I've agreed to help with a nautical-themed event in late September and I'm sure that some folks will want to "do" pirates. But my main area for research in the past few years has been the 16th century and I don't think I can convince anyone that the Uskoks of Senj would be a fun look [see Vecellio]. . . never mind. ;-) This will be a decidedly tongue-in-cheek event -- it's in Iowa, which is a land- locked state, and we're calling it "Any Port in a Storm" -- with paper boat races on the stream that runs through the park, and so on. (I expect a lot of Viking raiders to show up.) Thanks for listening, and sharing, Suzanne (When they asked me what *my* persona would be for this event, I said "the woman standing on the wharf waving goodbye.") _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
