Re: [h-cost] Re: Wal-Mart fabric
It's definitely a treasure hunt, but that's what makes it fun. My best finds? A lovely heavy white moire satin in cotton/acetate for my DIL's wedding dress. 60 wide and it was a dollar a yard. I also found some first run reproduction fabric, the lovely smooth sateen hand and straight on grain printing for $2 a yard. I had passed the same thing up at a specialty shop earlier in the day for $11 a yard. I also haunt my local Pendleton outlet. I dropped the better part of $250 there today, but that was for a total of 64 yards of beautiful Pendleton wool. I was a happy. I walked out with nothing every time I went for the past three or four months, because there wasn't anything worth taking home, at least for me. LuAnn - Original Message - From: Pierre Sandy Pettingermailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 9:24 PM Subject: [h-cost] Re: Wal-Mart fabric Well, our last competition costume (for Archon 2006 in St. Louis) was designed at 11 pm at our local Wal-Mart around the fabric they had in stock. It included black/blue/brown chinese brocade (acetate probably), yellow quilting cotton, a variegated brown crushed panne velour, and a stretch yellow patterned ruffle trim on clearance. It also included some of the same crushed panne in burgundy and lining for same, and light yellow sparkle rattail cording. Title: The King in Yellow (from an 1895 horror short story - obligatory historical content ;-) ) Result: Best in Class Master Division It was built in 2.5 weeks after the originally intended project crashed and burned. If you were at CC25 - my costume was what I wore judging the F/SF masquerade. We also buy bolts of the $1/yard stuff for mock-ups, and sometimes find decent generic lining there too. Not our first choice for fabric, but sometimes has interesting stuff. Sandy Walmart carries garment quality fabric? I suppose it does depend on location. Annette T Those Who Fail To Learn History Are Doomed to Repeat It; Those Who Fail To Learn History Correctly -- Why They Are Simply Doomed. Achemdro'hm The Illusion of Historical Fact -- C.Y. 4971 Andromeda ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.commailto:h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costumehttp://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Hancock's closing select locations
I often wonder if more people who do sew, would offer classes to the next generation. When I am not teaching college this summer, I am lining up to teenagers to teach them to sew. Most of their parents if they do sew, don't have time to teach them. The teenagers have come to me, asking if I would teach them to sew. The interest is because they are tired of the same old clothing in the stores. Penny Ladnier, Owner, The Costume Gallery Websites www.costumegallery.com www.costumelibrary.com www.costumeclassroom.com www.costumeencyclopedia.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] More Costume-Con photos
Well, there's a shot of me in my Future Fashion Show outfit, page 3, last row, middle. Karen On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 01:28:13 -0500 (CDT) Robin Netherton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My photographer friend now has his best selection from CC25 posted in a gallery. Most of them are costume portraits. The first of five pages is here: http://www.tancos2.net/costume2/cc07A.html ...with links at the bottom to the other pages. These are thumbnail pages; click a picture to link to a downloadable high-res print-quality version, sized to fit on 5x7 paper if you want your very own portraits. (Don generally doesn't mind people saving these for their own enjoyment, but if you intend to publish, either in print or on the web, let him know, and give credit to Don McClane. He always says yes when people ask first, but he gets very cranky when he finds his stuff lifted without permission.) Lots of h-costumers here. I will miss some as I can't remember everyone's names, and don't always recognize them in costume. But here are the people I spot right off that the list would know (I know many others but I'm not naming the ones I haven't seen on h-cost): Page 1: -- row 1 left, my Goth fitted dress again. Right-click and you can see a lot more detail on this one. -- row 6 left, Dawn gone wild, a much better shot definitely worth clicking on, and then middle, the same group of h-costumers Dawn showed us (I think Don took group shots with everyone's cameras) -- row 8 middle, Sandy Pettinger, and I forget why there are spoons. Next to that, her high-heeled sneakers (suitable for the rock-and-roll theme, though I don't think she planned that!) -- row 9 left, Margaret Decker, and you can see her wearing one of the square red H pins that TeaRose was handing out to listmembers -- row 9 right, Sunshine Buechler modeling a Norman dress made from my design, which she wore so conveniently to my lecture, saving me the trouble of trying to find someone to model the one I brought! That's me in the white veil. This one didn't come out as clear, probably because Don was being inconspicuous and not using flash. -- row 10, left and middle, Dawn and TeaRose as pirates. Page 2 -- row 3 right, that's one of us. Who? Mary Piero Carey? My lousy memory... -- midway down, when you start seeing the green curtains behind people, those are mostly f/sf masquerade entries. Page 3 -- more f/sf masquerade entries. -- row 6 middle, I was one of the celebrity guests for the halftime entertainment, a costumer's Match Game. -- row 10 left, Ramona (who I think is still on the list?) and husband Larry out judging the Orange hall costume contest Page 4 -- includes entries from the Future Fashion Folio. Note two theme contests, Red Hat / Purple Dress, and Orange. It was a colorful show. -- row 3 left, Pierre Pettinger as Indian Male Delegate to the Orange Ball -- row 4 right, Sandy, isn't that you as Messenger of the Djinn? Page 5 -- includes Historical Masquerade -- row 3 left, Sandy again in trademark Tall Headdress. -- row 7 right and 8 left, I think that's Sunny Buechler again, in the one that won an award in Historical. I'm missing some h-costumers, I'm sure of it. Identify yourselves... --Robin spending way too much time on pictures today ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Re: Hancock's closing and Walmart
In a message dated 4/6/2007 9:07:50 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've never seen actual clothing fabric at my local WalMarts either. I once scored four yards of orange/blue plaid Indian cotton, perfect for making early 19th century headwraps, in the $1 a yard bin. Have kept hoping to find more ever since, but no such luck. I also buy solid cottons for linings, and I've found some lovely artificial flowers for trims at Wal Mart. Ann Wass ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Re: Wal-Mart fabric
In a message dated 4/7/2007 2:11:01 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I walked out with nothing every time I went for the past three or four months, because there wasn't anything worth taking home, at least for me. I'm sure many of us share the thrill of the hunt, whether at WalMart, the Pendleton outlet, or the unknown fabric store in the town we happen to visit. Yes, I know they are getting fewer and fewer, but even quilting or craft stores sometimes have suitable prints for some of my projects--I actually found a print for an early 19th century dress at a Ben Franklin in Reno a couple of years ago, as well as a Lacis purse frame. Ann Wass ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Re: Walmart Fabric Dept...
At 7:55 PM -0600 4/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Walmart carries garment quality fabric? I suppose it does depend on location. The Walmart here (NW WA) has a somewhat diverse craft department, carries a limited selection of patterns and I haven't seen any fabric there that I would want to make clothing from unless it was a one time use/halloween costume type thing. It seems to cater to quilters and home crafters. However, my MIL used to be the fabric/craft department manager for a Walmart in Utah and she says they sold a lot of dress fabric. I can't imagine they would eliminate the fabric in a location that had decent sales. Annette T Here in NE MD, the Walmart *used* to have a fab fabric department, no silks, but lotsa cottons and polys (the Amish around here use lots of plain colored poly for wear). They sold *tons*. If you saw a bit of cloth you liked, you boughtit now, because it would be gone on the next visit. Now they are not getting much delivered in so sales are down and the Dept will be gone with the next store remuddle :-( Darn shame as I (and many others!) scored some amazing close to accurate 18th 19th cent indigo resist prints along with some great madder prints and for a while some good feed cloth repros. Alas all gone with the stupid corp redesign. Ta Carol--Totally bummed at the Hancocks closing...Soon JoAnns will be the only player left (and some quilt $tores) unless I do a Road Trip... -- Creative Clutter is Better Than Idle Neatness! ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Re: Wal-Mart fabric
At 02:10 AM 4/7/2007, you wrote: I also haunt my local Pendleton outlet. I dropped the better part of $250 there today, but that was for a total of 64 yards of beautiful Pendleton wool. I was a happy. I walked out with nothing every time I went for the past three or four months, because there wasn't anything worth taking home, at least for me. LuAnn I'm not lucky enough to live near a Pendleton outlet, but we do have a fabric outlet near me and it's easily my favorite place to shop! I've gotten wool blends for $3.98 a yard, ultrasuede pieces for 7.98 a pound, and linen and linen blends for $4-5 a yard. I get especially happy when they send out the 50% off your entire order coupons, though my DH groans when he sees them arrive! Dianne ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] More Costume-Con photos
Hi, Thanks for posting, My favourite was Robins black dress but also the nice cavalier coupple in black and white. Bjarne ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] teenagers sewing :was Hancock's closing select locations
On Apr 7, 2007, at 2:18 AM, Penny Ladnier wrote: The teenagers have come to me, asking if I would teach them to sew. The interest is because they are tired of the same old clothing in the stores. Good for you, Penny! Good for them too. You mean they don;t want to dress like hookers or as though they are wearing thie little sister's cast offs? (Yes, I'm an old fuddy duddy.) Susan ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Re: Walmart Fabric Dept...
Walmart carries garment quality fabric? * Depends on the garment I found one of my fave fabrics at Wal-mart: large, colorful, realistic tropical fish floating in a white void. Made a great Hawaiian shirt! ** and now...OT I saw on Showtime an installment of the Penn and Teller show Bullsh*t on the myth of how awful Wal-Mart was. Boy...talk about bullsh*t! For example, the made in a sweatshop issue [Wal-mart is not the only culprit, I know]. The apologist for sweatshops says that usually, in these poor countries, the sweatshop is a better wage than anything else, or the only jobs around. Like that justifies it. Like that is the only alternative: sweatshops or nothing. Hey...Imagine if the sweatshops weren't sweatshops! Imagine if they paid a halfway decent wage [even for whatever 3rd world country involved] instead. And get this excuse! The sweatshop apologist actually said America used to have sweatshops too, but we, over time, finally because of them, collected enough capital to get rid of them! Pu-leez! Like there wasn't enough capital in 19th century America. Hasn't he read an Edith Wharton novel? [probably not] America doesn't have sweatshops today [well, we're not supposed to] because of legislation, not a build up of capital. Corporations would still to this day be using child labor had we not outlawed it! [C'monyou know that's true] Bullsh*t indeed! Then there was the average Wal-mart employee makes over $10 an hour ploy. Well, sure! If you include top level employees and maybe the CEOs! If you took the average income of all of us on this list, and added into it Bill Gates and Dick Cheney, our average incomes would rise considerably! OoooI hate it when they in TV land think we're dumb! OK...end of OT rant... ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] More Costume-Con photos
My husband wanted to mug the Cavaliers for their outfits. :) He's such a fop! Susan - Original Message - From: Bjarne og Leif Drews [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 8:45 AM Subject: Re: [h-cost] More Costume-Con photos Hi, Thanks for posting, My favourite was Robins black dress but also the nice cavalier coupple in black and white. Bjarne ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Re: Walmart Fabric Dept...
Interesting. My son just put in an application for WalMart because their starting wage is higher than Sears, where he works now. I don't see anyone protesting Sears, of course. LuAnn - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 7:46 AM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re: Walmart Fabric Dept... Walmart carries garment quality fabric? * Depends on the garment I found one of my fave fabrics at Wal-mart: large, colorful, realistic tropical fish floating in a white void. Made a great Hawaiian shirt! ** and now...OT I saw on Showtime an installment of the Penn and Teller show Bullsh*t on the myth of how awful Wal-Mart was. Boy...talk about bullsh*t! For example, the made in a sweatshop issue [Wal-mart is not the only culprit, I know]. The apologist for sweatshops says that usually, in these poor countries, the sweatshop is a better wage than anything else, or the only jobs around. Like that justifies it. Like that is the only alternative: sweatshops or nothing. Hey...Imagine if the sweatshops weren't sweatshops! Imagine if they paid a halfway decent wage [even for whatever 3rd world country involved] instead. And get this excuse! The sweatshop apologist actually said America used to have sweatshops too, but we, over time, finally because of them, collected enough capital to get rid of them! Pu-leez! Like there wasn't enough capital in 19th century America. Hasn't he read an Edith Wharton novel? [probably not] America doesn't have sweatshops today [well, we're not supposed to] because of legislation, not a build up of capital. Corporations would still to this day be using child labor had we not outlawed it! [C'monyou know that's true] Bullsh*t indeed! Then there was the average Wal-mart employee makes over $10 an hour ploy. Well, sure! If you include top level employees and maybe the CEOs! If you took the average income of all of us on this list, and added into it Bill Gates and Dick Cheney, our average incomes would rise considerably! OoooI hate it when they in TV land think we're dumb! OK...end of OT rant... ** See what's free at http://www.aol.comhttp://www.aol.com/. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.commailto:h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costumehttp://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Re: Hancock's closing and Walmart
Having worked one summer as a costume designer at a theatre in a rural town in Colorado, I know that there are a lot of theatres in such areas that have no other place to buy fabric and sewing supplies than Walmart. I had to drive an hour to get there but I managed to find a lot of fabric and trims there to use. I brought most of the fabrics with me, but when I had to make a late 19th century dress that I hadn't planned on making, I was able to find some pretty good yellow linen or linen blend fabric and some black trims that worked by my being fairly creative. If that store goes out of the sewing business, I don't know what that theatre will do. And I may be in the same position this summer, designing for a different theatre in another mountain town. So much as I dislike shopping at Walmart, mostly because of their business practices--did you all see that movie The High Cost of Low Price?--I still hate to see their sewing departments go. Sylvia Rognstad Divinity Designs and Emeralds http://www.d-e-designs.com On Apr 7, 2007, at 5:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 4/6/2007 9:07:50 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've never seen actual clothing fabric at my local WalMarts either. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Re: Walmart Fabric Dept...
In a message dated 4/7/2007 12:42:59 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't see anyone protesting Sears, of course. **8 Well, Sears ain't what it used to be...partly because of Wal-mart. But I don't hate Wal-mart and one can shop anywhere they please for all I care... Just don't tell me lies and spin the facts. ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] even more CC25 photos...
John O'Halloran (our stage manager for next year) took a bunch and posted them to his flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/johno/collections/ Lots of pictures of Historical and Friday Night Social, less of FSF (none) because he was working the stage then. andy ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] the Castles was RE: Busby Berkeley
The Castle Story Irene Castle spent all kinds of time designing the dresses; Ginger Rogers spent all kinds of time updating the loathed styles. I'd love to see what Mrs. Castle had come up with. Many students of vintage dance learn two Castle Walks, one a styling to be used with one-step, and one a choreographed piece, seen in The Whirl of Life (iirc) and modified for The Castle Story. Ann in CT --- monica spence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wasn't there a Fred Astaire film about Vernon and Irene Castle? Monica This same student is also writing a paper about the Castles, a popular dancing couple from the 1910s. Penny Ladnier We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/265 ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Re: Walmart Fabric Dept...
And one might remember that at least in the 20th C that a Sears store opening up did not cause all the other MomAnd Pops to go out of business! Kathleen - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re: Walmart Fabric Dept... In a message dated 4/7/2007 12:42:59 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't see anyone protesting Sears, of course. **8 Well, Sears ain't what it used to be...partly because of Wal-mart. But I don't hate Wal-mart and one can shop anywhere they please for all I care... Just don't tell me lies and spin the facts. ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Re: Walmart Fabric Dept...
In a message dated 4/7/2007 3:19:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And one might remember that at least in the 20th C that a Sears store opening up did not cause all the other MomAnd Pops to go out of business! * They didn't? Are you sureI mean Sears became big in 1906...with the coming of rural free delivery ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Re: Hancock's closing and Walmart
I've been lucky at Walmart and picked up a linen/blend fabric off their unknown table. I also got some great cotton with a beautiful ying yang motif just gorgeous. Got some wonderful grey wool off the table one year. I just don't have time to hit the store first thing in the morning before someone else buys the good stuff. Brin Dawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kahlara wrote: Walmart carries garment quality fabric? I suppose it does depend on location. They carry fleece, and shiny prom dress fabric, and I've seen pre-smocked sundress prints there, that's probably the majority of what constitutes home sewing today. :( Dawn ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume - Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
