Hi, I've been a long time lurker here on h-cost so I thought I'd chime in. I'm the editor of Your Wardrobe Unlock'd and Foundations Revealed, Cathy Hay is the owner and publisher of both the sites. She's based in the UK and I'm in the US.
While the magazines focus on a variety of time periods, each year we have reader chosen focus periods that are part of a year long competition that ends in February. This year we're doing a Double Period Project (DPP) where the focus is on the Revolutionary era 1770-1789 and the Natural Form Era 1876-1882. The magazines can seem a bit pricey, but pick up a specialty print magazine at the grocery store and you'll see that the cost is similar. I just paid $9 for a quarterly gluten-free magazine the other day, and 60% was advertising! With the print magazine you just get that one issue, with our magazines, you get the current issue, and all the issues that have been published before. If you'd like to try out the magazine, we've just launched a new 48 hour trial period for $0.99 so you can see if you think its worth the subscription price. We don't have advertising because Cathy and I find it annoying. We do pay our authors and current payment rates are UK£60 (currently US$100) per article. We particularly welcome: - Patternmaking, drafting, adjustment, and scaling to your size (esp plus sizes) - Fitting - Sleeves - Finding appropriate and affordable fabrics and supplies - Studies of extant garments in personal collections (like Sunny's and Katherine's) - Complete beginning-to-end projects - Period authentic techniques explained for modern readers, eg authentic closures, "fiddly stuff", buttonholes through the ages - Trims, embellishments - more advanced examples - Period embroidery techniques - Accessories and head wear Content should be at the advanced level, but accessible and well explained. It must have references to period sources, eg archive.org, museum examples, etc. The articles must concentrate on ultra-practical how-tos. It needs to be advanced: 33% of readers have over 20 yrs experience, half describe themselves as "pretty advanced". If you're interested in writing for us, please contact me at marion.mcnealy AT gmail Dot com, I'd love to hear from you. Sincerely, Marion McNealy Editor, Your Wardrobe Unlock'd and Foundations Revealed http://yourwardrobeunlockd.com/ http://www.foundationsrevealed.com/ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
