Taylors Dummy: I never had one until I read how to make your own on a
Yahoogroups site: Old t-shirt, get thoroughly strapped in with boxing tape then
cut it off and stuff it. Perfect fit - except the daughter strapped my bust
down a bit hard and it looks like "Arnie" on a bad day. Make sure you wear a
good solid bra and strap upwards not downwards. Off the dummy I have a rusty
orange brown silk underdress on the go. I found some kimono fabric of exactly
the same colour to use for trims. Also I got some pure silk georgette to make
summer tops (I'm in Aus) so I really should get them done before November.
Lynlee
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Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today?
I need to make for
Federal/Empire/Regency wardrobe I have to finish by mid-January.
What is the occasion for this lovely wardrobe?
Ann Wass
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From: Hope Greenberg <[email protected]>
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always love this thread but, alas, I have no dressmakers dummy. If I
id, however, she would be wearing one of the pieces I need to make for
Federal/Empire/Regency wardrobe I have to finish by mid-January. The
all gown is mostly done but I still need a pelisse, walking or carriage
own, new shift, new stays, new bonnet, and maybe a new cap.
- Hope
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Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today?
But as for not having a dummy, don't despair! I found one in a trash can
several years ago--I did need to go to the hardware store to find a fitting to
hold the stand together, but other than that, she was absolutely free!
Ann Wass
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From: Hope Greenberg <[email protected]>
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Sent: Thu, Oct 6, 2011 10:22 am
Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today?
always love this thread but, alas, I have no dressmakers dummy. If I
id, however, she would be wearing one of the pieces I need to make for
Federal/Empire/Regency wardrobe I have to finish by mid-January. The
all gown is mostly done but I still need a pelisse, walking or carriage
own, new shift, new stays, new bonnet, and maybe a new cap.
- Hope
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Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today?
A friend of mine found a Wolf professional dummy with the collapsable shoulders
(in my size!) in her neighbor's sidewalk trash and brought it to me. I just
had to oil the wheels and let it dry out a little since it had rained that
morning.
Kate Pinner
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But as for not having a dummy, don't despair! I found one in a trash can
several years ago--I did need to go to the hardware store to find a fitting to
hold the stand together, but other than that, she was absolutely free!
Ann Wass
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From: Hope Greenberg <[email protected]>
To: Historical Costume <[email protected]>
Sent: Thu, Oct 6, 2011 10:22 am
Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today?
always love this thread but, alas, I have no dressmakers dummy. If I id,
however, she would be wearing one of the pieces I need to make for
Federal/Empire/Regency wardrobe I have to finish by mid-January. The all gown
is mostly done but I still need a pelisse, walking or carriage own, new shift,
new stays, new bonnet, and maybe a new cap.
- Hope
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I've done talks in various places about this period, usually couched in
terms of "fashion and Jane Austen." This particular occasion will be
extra fun. A local B&B, the Governor's House in Hyde Park, VT, offers 4
Jane Austen weekends throughout the year focusing on one book and then a
topic related to Austen's period
(http://www.onehundredmain.com/calendar2.cfm).
There's a Friday evening talk, Saturday tea, dinner and book discussion,
and Sunday brunch and quiz. Next year's book is Emma and the general
topic will be the fashion of the times. So, I'll be doing the talks and
decided I needed a multi-day wardrobe for each of the 4 weekends which
are each in a different season! Buying the fabric and designing the
gowns was fun, but actually creating them now is a bit daunting.
- Hope
[email protected] wrote:
>
> I need to make for
> Federal/Empire/Regency wardrobe I have to finish by mid-January.
>
> What is the occasion for this lovely wardrobe?
>
>
>
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Oh, yes, I've read about them. I would love to do something similar at the
house where I work, but, alas! we are limited in what we can do for men at our
site. Doesn't that place have fishing and am I remembering horses, too?
And yes, for me, too, the ideas and shopping are the fun part--the making up
not so much, unless I'm trying something new.
Ann Wass
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From: Hope Greenberg <[email protected]>
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Sent: Thu, Oct 6, 2011 4:39 pm
Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today?
've done talks in various places about this period, usually couched in
erms of "fashion and Jane Austen." This particular occasion will be
xtra fun. A local B&B, the Governor's House in Hyde Park, VT, offers 4
ane Austen weekends throughout the year focusing on one book and then a
opic related to Austen's period
http://www.onehundredmain.com/calendar2.cfm).
There's a Friday evening talk, Saturday tea, dinner and book discussion,
nd Sunday brunch and quiz. Next year's book is Emma and the general
opic will be the fashion of the times. So, I'll be doing the talks and
ecided I needed a multi-day wardrobe for each of the 4 weekends which
re each in a different season! Buying the fabric and designing the
owns was fun, but actually creating them now is a bit daunting.
- Hope
[email protected] wrote:
I need to make for
Federal/Empire/Regency wardrobe I have to finish by mid-January.
What is the occasion for this lovely wardrobe?
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A pirate coat (1730sih, but I make no claims to accuracy) made from
old drapes and a felt tricorn to go with. I hope to wear them to the
local renn faire before the season ends; if not, I'm sure I'll find
something to do with them :P
Allison T.
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>
> And yes, for me, too, the ideas and shopping are the fun part--the making up
> not so much, unless I'm trying something new.
>
I never really liked to sew but when I got involved in the SCA, I kind of had
to do it. Several years ago, though, I decided I would just pay people to do
that part. Sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn't... Right now, I'm
working with a pagan lady (used to weird costumes) who needs to supplement her
disability payment and we are doing well together. Right now, she's working on
a couple flannel nightgowns in preparation for the upcoming winter.
Janet
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Oh, you lucky! I wish I were close enough to attend. That event they
did last August with people being Jane Austen characters sounds even
more fun. Did you attend that?
Emily
On 10/6/2011 3:39 PM, Hope Greenberg wrote:
>
> I've done talks in various places about this period, usually couched
> in terms of "fashion and Jane Austen." This particular occasion will
> be extra fun. A local B&B, the Governor's House in Hyde Park, VT,
> offers 4 Jane Austen weekends throughout the year focusing on one book
> and then a topic related to Austen's period
> (http://www.onehundredmain.com/calendar2.cfm).
>
> There's a Friday evening talk, Saturday tea, dinner and book
> discussion, and Sunday brunch and quiz. Next year's book is Emma and
> the general topic will be the fashion of the times. So, I'll be doing
> the talks and decided I needed a multi-day wardrobe for each of the 4
> weekends which are each in a different season! Buying the fabric and
> designing the gowns was fun, but actually creating them now is a bit
> daunting.
>
> - Hope
>
> [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> I need to make for Federal/Empire/Regency wardrobe I have to finish
>> by mid-January.
>>
>> What is the occasion for this lovely wardrobe?
>>
>>
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Subject: [h-cost] Salt Source
Oooh, good idea, I had forgotten about that Amish-inclined bulk store about 8
miles away! And I might actually have time to get over there this weekend!
Thank you!
Mary Piero Carey
Rebecca said:
If you have any Amish or Mennonite communities nearby you are in luck. I
get 10 pound sacks of canning (non-iodized) salt from the local
Mennonite bulk store. This is also where I get pounds of cloves, alspice
and stick cinnamon for the holiday pommanders that I make every
Christmas. Much cheaper than all those little bottles from the grocery.
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Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today?
An old "Props Dept." tag I had laying around,
-C.
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Subject: Re: [h-cost] 70's prom dresses
Where I went to skool, it was Lee jeans, a Miller shirt (both ironed as it was
a special occasion) and platform shoes with turn-up toes. The boys wore pretty
much the same with the addition of a leather jacket or waist-length double-
breasted zip-up lumber jacket that could be loaned to a girl if it looked like
they might get lucky -- not that anyone knew what "lucky" actually was,
-C.
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Subject: [h-cost] yearbooks
Oooh, how interesting! Our yearbooks (N.E. Ohio) routinely had lots of
pictures of sporting events & dances & the plays & any outing the
various clubs went away on. Did your school not do that? Our
individual portrait shots were taken at the photo studio contracted in
any given year by the school to do it. Though, if (for example) Rossi's
won the bid & you didn't like their work, you could go to Troup & Pluto
(or wherever) & have them send Rossi's the shot. Where did you go to
high school?
Cathy Raymond said: Yearbooks might, or might not, do any good. When the
girls' yearbook photos were taken at my high school, they merely draped
our busts with a piece of velvet; we did not wear our prom gowns or
anything like that.
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