RE: [h-cost] re:iced drinks
Is this sweet iced tea specially made or just iced tea with sugar? In Calif our iced tea comes without sugar, so you just put in however much you want (if any). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 8:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [h-cost] re:iced drinks I went to England the first week of June (great trip but too short) with a school trip from Atlanta and I was surprised to find that in most of the restaurants I was able to get Diet Coke with one ice cube and a slice of lemon--just the way I like it and never asked for it that way. Most drinks are cold from the fountain/dispenser so I didn't need extra ice. However, we did have one from our group ask for sweet iced tea and it caused a major production number. The Georgian was able to get the sweet iced tea but when our tour guide wanted one to try that seemed to have been a major act of treason and they refused to serve him one. At least I was able to get Coke as a back up option but at home I drink Diet Coke 1/2 the time, sweet tea 1/2 the time. You think it's hard finding sweet tea North of the Mason-Dixon line? Try finding sweet tea in Florida! Once you get south of the panhandle you are no longer in the South as far as food and drink are concerned. I did run into one nice waiter in Orlando who was from Georgia and he agreed to make me a pitcher of sweet tea. He got a nice tip! ___ 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] help with fashion parade?
Oops! I don't know. I thought I made it up. (Dang, all the good ideas are already taken) I don't know if it's copyright infringement if it's the title of a fashion show. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lynn Downward Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 12:29 PM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] help with fashion parade? Isn't that already a book? would there be any copyright problems using it? Lynn On 8/19/07, Sharon Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Way We Wore -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of A Gardiner-Garden Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 3:36 AM To: Historical Costume Subject: [h-cost] help with fashion parade? I'm trying to think of catchy names for a historical fashion parade - showing under and outer garments from the last 500 years. Any ideas? And ideas how to go about it? It will be held in public next year - I'm trying to put a proposal together. Thanks, Aylwen ___ 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 ___ 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] help with fashion parade?
Book titles are not copywrited as far as I have heard, moives yes, but book names are fair game as long as it does have trademarked names. Silvara [Original Message] From: Sharon Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 8/21/2007 1:22:27 AM Subject: RE: [h-cost] help with fashion parade? Oops! I don't know. I thought I made it up. (Dang, all the good ideas are already taken) I don't know if it's copyright infringement if it's the title of a fashion show. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lynn Downward Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 12:29 PM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] help with fashion parade? Isn't that already a book? would there be any copyright problems using it? Lynn On 8/19/07, Sharon Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Way We Wore -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of A Gardiner-Garden Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 3:36 AM To: Historical Costume Subject: [h-cost] help with fashion parade? I'm trying to think of catchy names for a historical fashion parade - showing under and outer garments from the last 500 years. Any ideas? And ideas how to go about it? It will be held in public next year - I'm trying to put a proposal together. Thanks, Aylwen ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
RE: [h-cost] Re: coffee
Then you should try Cannas. They are very forgiving. I have some in the backyard that even my mother didn't kill! (She isn't a gardener)They come back after freezing and thrive on neglect. Just water them. If you feed them too, they grow like gangbusters. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Catherine Olanich Raymond Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 8:12 PM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re: coffee On Monday 20 August 2007, Penny Ladnier wrote: [snip] I have a very green thumb. When I decided to go back to college, my decision between majors was horticulture or fashion. I decided for fashion because I hate working in the heat of August. Here are two photos of my latest pride and joys from my garden. ***9 ft. cannas and 10 ft. tall sunflower. Neither have been fertilized. Kudos! I have the world's blackest thumb, myself; I can kill spider plants without really trying. -- Cathy Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] You've got to have the proper amount of disrespect for what you do. -- George Mabry ___ 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:iced drinks
True sweet tea is made by adding the sugar when the tea is still warm, so that it dissolves completely. I've seen some folks add cups, yes plural, to a pitcher of tea. I call tea that sweet Tea syrup, mainly because I find it way too sweet. Some folks do like it though, and if you go to a restaurant in especially rural places in the South, just expect that's what you're going to get, and probably won't be able to get unsweet tea at all. Cities are changing, but countryfolk are slower to do so. My dad, for example, hated having to add sugar to a glass of iced tea because he said it never really dissolved. Yes, he was very country! I have absolutely zero costume content to add here, sorry! ::Linda:: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sharon Collier Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 4:21 AM To: 'Historical Costume' Subject: RE: [h-cost] re:iced drinks Is this sweet iced tea specially made or just iced tea with sugar? In Calif our iced tea comes without sugar, so you just put in however much you want (if any). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try finding sweet tea in Florida! Once you get south of the panhandle you are no longer in the South as far as food and drink are concerned. I did run into one nice waiter in Orlando who was from Georgia and he agreed to make me a pitcher of sweet tea. He got a nice tip! ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] OT: Some Comments
Costume Content: I will be good and add this first! While trying to find out when manufacturers stopped using aniline dye in textiles, I came across a lady Alice Hamilton who was most noted for her research in aniline textile dye, mercury and lead poisons, and other chemicals in the industry. She also wrote a book called Exploring the Dangerous Trades. I have found the book online for $52+. I just hate to purchase a book for this price to find out one answer. Also, Hamilton was the first woman on Harvard's faculty. Back to aniline, I have found it used in fabrics in the 1920s. Links: Alice Hamilton: http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/1997/10.23/PublicHealthPio.html A good website about colorant history: http://www.colorantshistory.org/home.html The answer to my aniline question might be on this website but the website is vast. I tried to email the site owner but their link doesn't work. There are some tricks to growing cannas: 1. They love at least five hours of direct sunlight. 2. Deadhead them once a week. When you deadhead them, pull back the thin leave by the flower stalk, and cut (45 degree angle) the stalk as far down in the stalk as possible. This makes the new flower stalk stronger. The new flower stalk will appear in a week. 3. Beetles love to eat the leaves and flowers. Malatyon! (sp?) (FYI: This melts nail polish) 4. Plant them in the wettest part of your yard. The old-fashioned nickname for cannas is septic tank flowers. 5. Do not remove dead stalks until spring time. The stalks feed the tubers through the winter. I just cover mine with leaves to winter. Do not walk on the bed in the snow. Someone killed some of mine this way. My cannas come up in early May and bloom until the first killing frost around Oct. 15. They bloom all summer. 6. The tubers can be divided in the spring. Don't move after the first stalks appear. This IS my last message about tea: I promise! When you add sugar to cold unsweet tea, it dissolves slowly or not at all. This is wasting sugar. To make sweet tea, add the sugar while the tea brew is hot. Then add Stir it until the spoon does not draw. The sugar has melted. Then dilute the tea with cold water. I learned this from my Food Science course in college. This was one of my favorite college classes at University of New Mexico. You made things wrong, and then were taught the correct method. The point was to learn the chemical reactions. Try making a cake or biscuits with baking soda and another with baking powder. See we still need home ec. education in our lives! It just wasn't all sewing and etiquette. Tea that is cloudy is old tea and has a bad/rank flavor. The tannins have settled. Also putting tea in a frig will make it cloud sooner. I can't recall if it was Lipton or Lousianne who had a ad campaign about their tea not clouding as soon as other brands. In a restraunt, if we receive cloudy tea, we do not even taste it. We return it and drink water. We also make sure the manager knows about the problem. Tea is so inexpensive there is no reason for them to not make it fresh daily, even though they change you $2 for the drink. McDonald's has ads for a large sweet tea on their $1 menu. Oh well, I fore-warned you, we are serious ice tea drinkers. In Richmond, VA I have to ask for unsweet ice tea, otherwise, they will bring me sweet tea. I stopped liking sweet tea when my husband started adding two cups of sugar to our family's tea. Now we have his and hers tea pitchers! 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] OT: Some Comments
5. Do not remove dead stalks until spring time. The stalks feed the tubers through the winter. I just cover mine with leaves to winter. Do not walk on the bed in the snow. Someone killed some of mine this way. My cannas come up in early May and bloom until the first killing frost around Oct. 15. They bloom all summer. Depends on where you live!! Check your garden zone as Cannas tubers will not survive the winter here (Iowa, border between zone 4 and 5) and in the spring you will just have mush. It's the main reason we don't plant cannas or dahlias; stuff just doesn't winter over well in our basement. OCC: local Walmart stores seems to be in a run of new $1.00 yard fabrics! I was trying really hard to use only stash on recent projects, but the siren call of cool stuff is too much for me. I found a *lovely* bolt of something (synthetic, I'm sure) that looks like navy blue nondescript whatever on the backside (the side showing in the stack) but when I folded it back to the right side -- OMG -- it looked exactly like hammered copper only not *quite* copper colored and not *quite* the color of gold. My daughter is only in 8th grade but she immediately said Prom Dress, Mom! so naturally I bought all 6 yards. For a dollar a yard, what the heck! In two trips to two different stores I bought about 20 yards of fabric. Denise Iowa ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Re: coffee
At 11:11 PM 8/20/2007, you wrote: Kudos! I have the world's blackest thumb, myself; I can kill spider plants without really trying. Me too. I love beautiful gardens, but I just can't seem to manage it. I love that sunflower, Penny. Dianne ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] re:iced drinks
In a message dated 8/21/2007 5:27:48 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: True sweet tea is made by adding the sugar when the tea is still warm, so that it dissolves completely. *** Yes that's it. The sugar is usually put in while the tea is steeping. My mother used to make the tea without the sugar and, while she was boiling water, she's make up some simple syrup... y'know sugar in boiling water... put that on the table in a cream pitcher so the yankees wouldn't be upset and everyone could sweeten their tea as they pleased. I hate iced tea...sweet or not. I guess I'm about the only Southerner that does. ** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Prices in 1957
Would anyone know of a resource for finding the prices of things in 1957? I'm not looking for a current value but what something would have cost in 1957. Specifically a cocktail length wedding dress?? My in-laws are having their 50th annv. in 2 weeks and the kids want to prepare a card where the punchline is 50 years together, priceless. They are trying to find the cost of typical wedding items from this year for the rest of the bit. For some reason they thought I would know about the dress :). Thanks, Catherine ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Re: coffee
In a message dated 8/21/2007 4:42:38 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then you should try Cannas And daylilies. Talk about maintenance free! And they come is some amazing varieties, not just the tawny ditch lily. Check out this vendor! _http://www.oakesdaylilies.com/supplier/home.php?id=s000_ (http://www.oakesdaylilies.com/supplier/home.php?id=s000) Of course the actual blooms only last a day so you can't really cut them and bring them inside. But they bloom day after day, especially if you water them when they 1st start coming up in the spring. They spread too. ** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Prices in 1957
In a message dated 8/21/2007 9:00:47 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would anyone know of a resource for finding the prices of things in 1957? A reprinted Sears catalogue of the period maybe. Or, most libraries have old copies of magazines from the 50's. Check the ads. ** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] help with fashion parade?
Sharon Collier wrote: Oops! I don't know. I thought I made it up. (Dang, all the good ideas are already taken) I don't know if it's copyright infringement if it's the title of a fashion show. According to a quick check at Bookfinder.com at least 7 people have published books that start out 'the Way We wore' and then sometimes elaborated after that (Styles of the 30s 40s, Fashion Illustration of Children's Wear, Vintage Paper Doll.) So you certainly could use it, but it won't be quite as original as you had hoped. -Judy Mitchell ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] RE: re:iced drinks
Sweet tea is popular in the midwest (Kansas City area), altho not automatically served in restaurants. My husband used to make very good sweet tea with a MrCoffee iced tea maker: http://www.mrcoffee.com/productmodels.aspx?categoryid=2 He would add about a half cup of sugar to the hopper with the tea bags so that it dissolved completely as the tea brewed. While not an iced tea expert I have to admit that this was really good iced tea. He's been using the same machine for years, but we are on our second set of pitchers :). Catherine ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
RE: [h-cost] Prices in 1957
Naturally price could vary quite a bit, just as today. (Off the rack from China vs. designer or custom made) Here's one site that might be useful. Note the wedding dress price is for sample dresses, so may not be very accurate. http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/prices/1958.html ::Linda:: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Catherine Kinsey Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 8:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [h-cost] Prices in 1957 Would anyone know of a resource for finding the prices of things in 1957? I'm not looking for a current value but what something would have cost in 1957. Specifically a cocktail length wedding dress?? My in-laws are having their 50th annv. in 2 weeks and the kids want to prepare a card where the punchline is 50 years together, priceless. They are trying to find the cost of typical wedding items from this year for the rest of the bit. For some reason they thought I would know about the dress :). ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
RE: [h-cost] Prices in 1957
Here's another, of a nice dress. Says that $350.00 was a lot of money for a wedding dress at the time. Today, that's dirt cheap. http://www.thevintagevault.citymax.com/catalog/item/256734/45142.htm Now, I'm off to go work on my own costumes today! Yay! ::L:: ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] regional things, was re: iced drinks
True sweet tea is made by adding the sugar when the tea is still warm, so that it dissolves completely. I've made it that way - it makes sense. To me, the funniest thing is that people in different areas will claim theirs is the best iced tea. My mom is a good one for that - rather than saying she likes the tea in her area, she tells me they claim it's the best. So I said I heard that people in North Carolina claim *theirs* is the best. ;- These days there are so many teas, blends and tisanes that are good cold. I suppose you can't make sun tea as proper sweet tea. And some blends are lovely without sugar, the same way as I like some hot teas with or without milk and sugar depending on the type of tea. As homogenized as things get these days, we still have regional differences, besides the obvious climate and sports team themes. Hmmmn, does that steer it back to costume? :-) Actually one thing that is interesting is the amount of consumer pressure these days compared to 25 or 30 years ago. My niece is starting college this year and had to coordinate with her new roommate on the colors and styles of sheets, towels, curtains, etc. For myself and my brothers, we were allowed to root through the linen closet for things to take to school. :-) -Carol ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Prices in 1957
I don't think China was making Western fashions for export in the 1950s. On Aug 21, 2007, at 7:49 AM, Linda Rice wrote: Naturally price could vary quite a bit, just as today. (Off the rack from China vs. designer or custom made) Here's one site that might be useful. Note the wedding dress price is for sample dresses, so may not be very accurate. http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/prices/1958.html ::Linda:: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Catherine Kinsey Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 8:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [h-cost] Prices in 1957 Would anyone know of a resource for finding the prices of things in 1957? I'm not looking for a current value but what something would have cost in 1957. Specifically a cocktail length wedding dress?? My in-laws are having their 50th annv. in 2 weeks and the kids want to prepare a card where the punchline is 50 years together, priceless. They are trying to find the cost of typical wedding items from this year for the rest of the bit. For some reason they thought I would know about the dress :). ___ 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
[h-cost] easy to care for plants: was Re: coffee
Heather and wallflower are lovely too, and very easy to care for. The purple heather that you find in the PacNWet blooms in the spring and fall. Plant it in peat moss, see that it's watered once a weekand feed it with a general plant food every few months. It puts out a beautiful cloverlike flower and the bees love it. excellent if you live in an area hit by bee blight--help those little creatures recover. Wallflower is a bush with thin leaves and throws out beautiful stalks of blooms. Plant it in regular soil, and care for as you would heather. Again, bees love it. Prune both plants back from time to time--heather for shaping (as it grows, it becomes excellent ground cover) and the wallflower stalks back to the bush level as the blooms die off. It also covers ground well. It likes medium to full sunlight; my heather grows in a mostly shaded area and doesn't seem to mind. Enjoy your beautiful garden and the compliments! Arlys On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:05:19 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In a message dated 8/21/2007 4:42:38 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then you should try Cannas And daylilies. Talk about maintenance free! And they come is some amazing varieties, not just the tawny ditch lily. Check out this vendor! _http://www.oakesdaylilies.com/supplier/home.php?id=s000_ (http://www.oakesdaylilies.com/supplier/home.php?id=s000) Of course the actual blooms only last a day so you can't really cut them and bring them inside. But they bloom day after day, especially if you water them when they 1st start coming up in the spring. They spread too. ** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ___ 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] Prices in 1957
I believe that old Sears catalogs are available various places and other large stores might also have records of their offerings from back 'in the day'. They would be a good source for middle-class average costs. Karen Seamstrix ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
RE: [h-cost] OT: Some Comments
Ooh, thanks Denise. THAT was my exciting costume news that I forgot to share! I was in our Norfolk, Va. Walmart last week, and also noticed that the $1.00 bolt table was restocked. I found my favorite sales lady and she said that indeed, they were keeping their fabric department and were replacing the racks that had been removed! YIPPPE! She said that everything was planned to go back to the way it used to be. So, I guess Walmart paid attention to the fact that they don't need to be upscale- that is not their target market. I'm not sure what is going on with the other service oriented departments that were under the knife, such as paint, automotive and fish. Fish, now that's one section I'd be very happy to see out of our Walmart. It's so bad I'm surprised PETA hasn't found out about it! ::Linda:: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Land of Oz OCC: local Walmart stores seems to be in a run of new $1.00 yard fabrics! I was trying really hard to use only stash on recent projects, but the siren call of cool stuff is too much for me. I found a *lovely* bolt of something (synthetic, I'm sure) that looks like navy blue nondescript whatever on the backside (the side showing in the stack) but when I folded it back to the right side -- OMG -- it looked exactly like hammered copper only not *quite* copper colored and not *quite* the color of gold. My daughter is only in 8th grade but she immediately said Prom Dress, Mom! so naturally I bought all 6 yards. For a dollar a yard, what the heck! In two trips to two different stores I bought about 20 yards of fabric. Denise ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] OT: Some Comments
2 items, 1 of which is costume related, 1 of which is tea related: 1) Costume, or rather fabric: I want to thank all the folks who replied several weeks ago to my request for fabric store locations in California. I ended up at a couple Discount Fabrics with no finds, then went to Britex in San Francisco. Instead of silk I bought cotton. 4 pieces of white, lightweight, very fine, cottons (one satin batiste) and one primrose/jonquil yellow that looks exactly like the color of that early 19th cent. muslin gown with the brown trim that was posted here a couple months ago. Lovely! Now I'm at it again, this time to New York. I remember doing the Orchard St. shopping blitz many years ago, but now it seems the stores are more concentrated in the 30s. While I would love to spend the day browsing every shop, my daughters also want to do some non-fabric shopping. So, does anyone have a favorite, must-go-to, fabric store in NYC (where favorite is defined as you can get some silk or linen or fine cotton historically probable fabric at ridiculously low prices)? Oh, and feathers: ostrich plumes for bonnets? 2) Tea. Ah yes. I'm a northerner but my parents were southerners so I grew up on iced tea. We made it in a pot, steeped for 3-5 mins. as tea should be, sweetened while hot, poured over ice. I still make it that way, I just don't use as much sugar. Well, at restaurants I often ask how they make their iced tea. Many are proud to say that they don't use a mix but brew it from real bags and don't sweeten it. They are also proud to say that they make it nice and strong by brewing it overnight in the refrigerator. Ouch! So here's how I usually order iced tea at a restaurant: could you bring me a cup of hot tea, and two glasses completely filled with ice... :-) (Of course, that doesn't mean they will actually boil the water for the tea but what the heck--can't be too fussy!!) - Hope Penny Ladnier wrote: This IS my last message about tea: I promise! When you add sugar to cold unsweet tea, it dissolves slowly or not at all. This is wasting sugar. To make sweet tea, add the sugar while the tea brew is hot. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Walmart cloth...good news/bad news...
At 10:39 AM -0600 8/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ooh, thanks Denise. THAT was my exciting costume news that I forgot to share! I was in our Norfolk, Va. Walmart last week, and also noticed that the $1.00 bolt table was restocked. I found my favorite sales lady and she said that indeed, they were keeping their fabric department and were replacing the racks that had been removed! YIPPPE! She said that everything was planned to go back to the way it used to be. So, I guess Walmart paid attention to the fact that they don't need to be upscale- that is not their target market. I'm not sure what is going on with the other service oriented departments that were under the knife, such as paint, automotive and fish. Fish, now that's one section I'd be very happy to see out of our Walmart. It's so bad I'm surprised PETA hasn't found out about it! ::Linda:: Well the Walmart near I95 in Belair MD had their 75% off sale, cleared the store of cloth very quickly and now has stupid Halloween pumpkins in the rack space... the Aberdeen one still has cloth for now. I guess it may be store by store decision. Silly to hammer the Belair one as they always sold a ton of quilting stuff and had a better selection than the others. But if the others don't stock as well, the Corporate can point fingers and claim it to be a loss... Oh and they seem to be keeping the fish section, but it a well tended one and the fish seem healthy. SIGH Carol -- Creative Clutter is Better Than Idle Neatness! ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] OT- brewing iced tea
Funny enough I just got an email from Cooks Illustrated about their tea tasting -- here's the link if you would like to read it. http://www.cooksillustrated.com/printtasting.asp?tastingid=592bdc=7104 or http://www.cooksillustrated.com/tasting.asp?tastingid=592bdc=7104extcode=N07MH1AA1 They are the people that have a TV show on PBS and a cooking magazine without advertisements. Now- back to topic. the best tea dying I have found is from Nambarrie's Tea from Belfast - it dyes cups, teeth and fabrics. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] OT- brewing iced tea
At 18:45 21/08/2007, you wrote: Funny enough I just got an email from Cooks Illustrated about their tea tasting -- here's the link if you would like to read it. http://www.cooksillustrated.com/printtasting.asp?tastingid=592bdc=7104 or http://www.cooksillustrated.com/tasting.asp?tastingid=592bdc=7104extcode=N07MH1AA1 They are the people that have a TV show on PBS and a cooking magazine without advertisements. Now- back to topic. the best tea dying I have found is from Nambarrie's Tea from Belfast - it dyes cups, teeth and fabrics. Well, now speaking as one who comes from a tea drinking country, I get my tea from France!! Lipton's make a Tchae which I cannot buy in the U.K. or the U.S., so every so often we make an excursion across to France, and buy up the whole box/shelf. However, recently I have found a green tea from China that I can buy in quantity too. But tea with milk - yeuck! I like iced tea too, but in Washington I had one and realised it should have been sweetened. And would you believe the iced tea I can buy in bottles in the supermarket is not the same as Anne was getting me, same name, same label, in Virginia. Pt!! Suzi ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] help with fashion parade?
Copyright infringement is if you copy and sell or hand out a portion of the book. With titles, you're talking about trademark. In that case, will it be confused with the original product? I doubt 7-Up will sue for classrooms to stop playing the game of the same name on rainy days. Unlike copyrights, trademarks are not granted automatically. Most book titles are not trademarked, although it is more likely in the case of ongoing series such as For Dummies. On the other hand, whether you get caught and if so, punished is not much of an ethical guideline. Neither is your personal opinion of whether sales will be harmed, as you have no access the sales figures and cannot know. Fran ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] tea as dye
From: Agnes Gawne [EMAIL PROTECTED] the best tea dying I have found is from Nambarrie's Tea from Belfast - it dyes cups, teeth and fabrics. My experiment with saving used tea bags for future tea dying did not end well. Rather, it ended with me holding something at arm's length and sprinting for the trash. Oh, well, luckily tea's not that expensive anymore. I've been trying different types of teas lately, now that I'm trying to get back into drinking it daily, and have been surprised to notice how wide a range of colors I see. When I was half the age I am now, I tried tea dying as a means of giving something an antiquey look, and gave up in disgust at the pinky peachy caucasian-flesh-tone I kept getting. Now I wish I'd tried different types of tea instead of giving up! My spent green tea bags stain the paper towel I put them on the perfect yellowed linen color... When I'm done running around like a chicken with its head cut off planning my move/house-building/house purchase halfway across the country (WA, NH, MT, or WY, depending on which job the husband takes) I plan to try various types of cheap grocery store tea to find out what color each yields. Unless anyone knows of a website out there where someone has already done the work for me! -E House ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
RE: [h-cost] help with fashion parade?
From: Sharon Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oops! I don't know. I thought I made it up. (Dang, all the good ideas are already taken) I don't know if it's copyright infringement if it's the title of a fashion show. So many books are called _A History of Costume_ that we refer to them by the author's name. Copyright infringement is if you copy and sell or hand out a portion of the book. With titles, you're talking about trademark. In that case, will it be confused with the original product? I doubt 7-Up will sue for classrooms to stop playing the game of the same name on rainy days. Likewise calling a fashion show The Way We Wore or A History of Costume is not going to harm sales of the books. You might get in trouble if you called it Microsoft or Disney because people would assume you had their sponsorship. Are you planning to make a video of the parade and distribute it? If that's the case, then you would want to do more research on names. -Carol ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Re: Coffee and Tea
Penny - thanks for the tips re: the coffee grounds. My husband does what very little planting we do around here because I have a very brown thumb, but I put some cooled grounds + water in kitty grass today, and I'll see how it goes. Albert - I'm from GA and I've never liked Iced tea. You're not alone. Allison T. On 8/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 2 Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:52:40 -0400 From: Penny Ladnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re: coffee To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=original Allison, My mother taught to just add them to the soil's surface. We always added it after the coffee grounds had cooled. I have had some house plants for over 20 years. I have a very green thumb. When I decided to go back to college, my decision between majors was horticulture or fashion. I decided for fashion because I hate working in the heat of August. Here are two photos of my latest pride and joys from my garden. ***9 ft. cannas and 10 ft. tall sunflower. Neither have been fertilized. My son standing in-between the flowers is 6 ft. tall: http://www.costumegallery.com/flowers/P1060106lg.jpg ***Zinnias and butterfly: http://www.costumegallery.com/flowers/P1010010lg.jpg 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] OT: Some Comments
In a message dated 8/21/2007 12:22:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now I'm at it again, this time to New York. I remember doing the Orchard St. shopping blitz many years ago, but now it seems the stores are more concentrated in the 30s. * Yes, the upper 30s on the west side is full of fabric shopsmany, alas, with the same stuff out in front. But it can be fun to dig through the bolts. I've always wanted to shop at Mood, just to see what's there but I could never find the damn place! The last time I was in the city, my friend finally told me it not at street level. But then he said he's never found the door to go up!! LOL. As you can seewe really aren't trying very hard, are we? ** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Prices in 1957
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Catherine Kinsey wrote: Would anyone know of a resource for finding the prices of things in 1957? I'm not looking for a current value but what something would have cost in 1957. Specifically a cocktail length wedding dress?? The fastest way I can think of to get the answer is in the microfilm room of my local library, which has archives of newspapers going way back ... including ad sections. I'd go for the Sunday New York Times or a similar paper with large Sunday ad supplements. You might have to go through a few months (I can't remember what season is the big one for wedding dress sales), but eventually you'll find an ad for a bridal show or sale that will have pictures with prices. A similar resource is old magazines. Modern Bride or Bride's Magazine might not go back that far, but Vogue and Ladies' Home Journal may occasionally feature wedding dresses. Try the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature for your target year to find magazine features on wedding gowns, then see if you can get the magazine on microfilm or fiche. You'll need a good-sized library for this. --Robin ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] More Comments: Costume Content
For those interested and the recent discussion: Tonight/Early Wed. morning History International is running a Modern Marvels show about the history of sugar. Following this, the show, Where did it Come From: Ancient China's Agriculture. Also, WE tv is auctioning on eBay one of Princess Diana's dresses from the original Christie's auction. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=290148990656ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:ITih=019 The opening bid, $250,000. This dress was made by Catherine Walker. Make sure to click on the slide show. WE owns two more of her dresses and they are supposed to be on tour. Has anyone heard of the tour and where it is going? The King Tut exhibit in Philadelphia in mid Sept. Has anyone been to it? I would like to know if it is worth the trip. I was going to see the exhibit in Florida when it was there. A friend told my sister that this tour was not that good. I would like some feedback from someone who has seen it in PA, CA, or FL. 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
[h-cost] King Tut exhibit (WAS: More Comments: Costume Content)
On Aug 21, 2007, at 9:08 PM, Penny Ladnier wrote: The King Tut exhibit in Philadelphia in mid Sept. Has anyone been to it? I would like to know if it is worth the trip. I was going to see the exhibit in Florida when it was there. A friend told my sister that this tour was not that good. I would like some feedback from someone who has seen it in PA, CA, or FL. Co-workers of mine who went to see it were disappointed, mostly (I gathered) because they hadn't realized beforehand that some of the most spectacular artifacts stayed home this time, such as the famous gold mask. Reading between the lines, though, it sounded pretty interesting to me as long as you go with an open mind and don't assume it's necessarily designed for maximum splash like previous Tut exhibits. (Old armchair Egyptophile speaking here.) OChris Laning [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Davis, California + http://paternoster-row.org - http://paternosters.blogspot.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
