My favourites, where they exist, tend to be the > patterns in magazine of the time and from extant garments when you can get > access to them, ie not the ones everyone has done.
Yep. >But much of my recreation > started well before patterns (at the time) or before there were any kind of > commercial re-enactment patterns. Me too. I'm lucky that my first costume book was a good one (Davenport), and not some kiddy-fantasy coloring book. > But to be fair and realistic, most people starting out do not have the > skills and confidence to start in that manner. I didn't have the skills either, decades ago when I started doing this. But I made lots of mistakes, and threw away plenty of failures. It's easier now for beginners, with historically accurate commercial patterns available, color photos of originals, in books and online, and things like h-costume. -- Carolyn Kayta Barrows -- “The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.” -William Gibson -- _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
