On May 7, 2009, at 2:19 AM, Käthe Barrows wrote:
What if the judges don't like my historical period?
This shouldn't matter if they're honest. Case in point, all three
of us
judges gagged when we saw that someone was entering that 1959 Dior
outfit.
We' were all old enough to have developed a bad taste for that
period -
first hand. (It's stuff like that that made me want to be a
Hippie.) And
every contemporary 1959 detail she showed us, including that stupid
hat,
only made us gag more. But she could have walked right out of the
Vogue
pattern envelope she showed us (all she had was the envelope, and
she had to
modify another pattern to get what she wanted). I can't think of
much she
could have done better (except picking a period I liked).
It's probably bad manners to say this on the list rather than
privately, but I'm a bit concerned for what the lurkers might think if
this isn't responded to.
If that had been something I entered, I would be extremely hurt and
horrified to see a judge talking about it in this fashion. A hat is
"stupid" simply because you had a bad experience with '50s fashion?
An entire historical fashion era makes you gag? I would find it very
difficult to trust a judge to be impartial who expresses opinions like
this. You say it "shouldn't" matter, but I'd look for a bit more
evidence that the judges control their rendered judgement better than
their expressed opinions.
Heather Jones
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