Hmm... My mother was a great one for sewing, being of that generation who could make their own clothes regardless of the stupidity of the patterns of the day. She was also pretty good at firing pins across the room as she worked rather than use the pin tin. I spent my childhood pulling pins out of my feet.
I still have the first costume she made for me, a red injun for a school play, a compendium of wheat sacks, coloured wool and an elastic headband [(sans headband these days) why they cast a redheaded kid at the Cherokee is anyone's guess]. She also taught me how to use a Singer treadle, knowledge which led me to work out how to dismantle, repair and re-assemble almost any machine around, and do it to my industrials without losing a finger or two. She worked in an industrial laundry, starting out doing repairs and packing then into the office as clerk and as operator of that new giant computer thing in the early 1970s. I worked there during school holidays then for half a year when I left skool. My duties included formal shirts, special starching, and using odd-shaped presses and steamy pipes to crease shirts, formal bibs and the like -- it probably accounts for my anal attitude towards use of the iron these days. So, in my case, I probably picked up a taste of this thing I now do way back then. Quoting [email protected]: > I was re-reading Margo's post and it got me to thinking...How many of our > family members are enjoying costuming since we became a member of h-costume? > Or maybe inherited the costuming gene? If so what kind of costuming? > > All my kids like getting into costumes...sometimes for no real reason. We > were lucky to have inherited my husband's family costume bag. My > grandchildren go straight to the bag...now totes of costumes to play in when > they visit us. Their closets are full of their own costumes. My 5 y.o > granddaughter wears her costumes everywhere...to school, church, the store, > etc. My 9 y.o. granddaughter has started sewing and is very passionate > about it. > > My son, Patrick, is the one who inherited the most costuming genes. I > didn't know until I saw the playbill but he was designing the costumes for > his high school plays. He made his first costume for an anime convention > and won an award for construction. He has worked in the costuming retail > industry for 4 yrs as a manager of Spirits Halloween stores. This year Pat > went back to college for theater technology. He has been awarded full > scholarships for college. > > Penny Ladnier, owner > The Costume Gallery Websites > www.costumegallery.com > 14 websites of fashion, costume, and textile history > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > ------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
