Marion,
Thank you, and all who replied, to my original post. Since I had never
heard of your site, I was wary. So many times I have seen magazines,
websites, and classes advertised to teach period skills I wanted to
polish, only to find the instructions geared for beginners. While I am
not a career costumer, I have enough experience sewing and costuming
for personal use that I'm a bit gun shy of such articles.
It's nice to see that other costumers appreciate and use your site.
When I get back from my upcoming vacation I suspect you will see me
over there.
Thanks for the explanation of your site(s)!
== Marjorie Wilser
=:=:=:Three Toad Press:=:=:=
"Learn to laugh at yourself and you will never lack for amusement." --MW
http://3toad.blogspot.com/
On May 18, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Marion McNealy wrote:
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/
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