Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today?
Nothing historical. Just a Red Riding Hood cape-like thing--not quite a cape because it's basically a very full sleeveless body with a pair of quarter-circle wings draped over the places where the sleeves would normally be. With a hood. OK, maybe not really nothing historical, since I've just noticed my old T-tunic underneath. It's not particularly historical either, being made of a rather obvious synthetic blend and with rather uneven stitches (hey, what can I say? It was my _first_ tunic). But at least I _pretended_ it was historical when I made it ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Shirt collars outside 40s coats?
Still in relation to the research on early Indonesian post-independence fashion, I'm just starting to notice on contemporary photographs from 1945-1955 that many men who wore suits or sport coats without ties often wore their unbuttoned shirt collars _outside_ the coat (i.e. on top of the coat's collar rather than tucked underneath). Before this I only knew of the practice from Japanese and German army desert or tropical uniforms, so was this really a particular fad of the 40s throughout both civilian and military spheres? If so, I suppose this could be one of those small details that could add a great deal of verisimilitude to the reconstructions with virtually no additional cost and very little effort. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Modesty issues with the GFD
I'm about to make the kind of 14th-15th century dress that usually comes up in discussions as the Gothic fitted dress (after Robin Netherton, I believe), and the problem I'm facing is that the neckline for such dresses tend to be rather open. Now, the friend I'm making the dress for is a devout-but-moderate Muslim you'd normally see wearing a business suit (you know, tailored coat and trousers) and a headscarf, so she has no issues with the rather figure-hugging profile of the dress, but she needs a way to cover her bosom and her hair without making her look like a spinster when she wants to wear the dress outside her house. We're both convinced that there _is_ a way, but we're not sure which options would have been realistically used by the women back then. The first thing that came to our minds was a button-up hood like the London hood (as in this example: http://tinyurl.com/6kbvprq ), and if it's indeed a good option then most of our problems would just go away instantly. Still, we can't help wondering if there's also some other option available, such as covering the chest with a fichu (would the 18th-century style still be kosher _four_ centuries earlier?) or partlet (which, after all, must have come from somewhere) when she's in the mood to wear the dress with a separate hat or to stick the hood on her head as a chaperon. So, any opinions? And thanks beforehand! ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Off-topic - Bartitsu documentary
This isn't really a costume thing, but since there are many Victorian and Edwardian enthusiasts in this list, I think I should post a link to this recently-released DVD documentary about the turn-of-the-century martial art: http://www.freelanceacademypress.com/bartitsu.aspx At least it could be a pretty nice source of ideas on how to whack people around while you're in costume. ;) ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Pre-WW1 Austrian uniforms
In response to the question put up in tangential response to my question: ironically, I had to research the subject of late 19th-century Austrian uniforms for a steampunk project (a lot less serious than this one), and these are the online sources I used: http://www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk/index.htm http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Official_patterns_of_Austria-Hungarian_uniforms http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Military_uniforms_of_Austria-Hungary Depending on your budget, you might also want to check out the (reputedly very good) books by Verlag Militaria--I've been eyeing them for the German military formalwear research, but they're somewhat beyond my financial means at the moment. They seem to have a couple of books on the Austro-Hungarian military forces. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] WW1-WW2 German military formalwear?
Can anybody recommend fairly comprehensive sources for the more formal kinds of uniforms worn in the German military services during the two World Wars and the intervening period? I'm mostly looking for information on walking-out dress and the German equivalents--if any--of Anglo-American mess dress (both the white tie and the black tie varieties), and the timeframe I'm interested in is actually something like 1895-1945, so a bit broader than just the two World Wars but still closely related. Thanks beforehand for the recommendations! ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Asking for examples of sagging reproductions of Renaissance breeches?
Hello Tiberius, Thank you for looking at my site. Hmm...isn't that a bit upside-down? I'm the one who should thank you for having made such a great site in the first place I am not quite sure I understand your question. Are you looking for photos of modern men wearing sagging renaissance reproduction breeches? Or are you looking for possible period image examples of men wearing sagging breeches? I'm looking for modern reproductions that sag where the originals don't. It's all just out of some morbid curiosity--I'm certainly not planning to follow that precedent myself! And are you referencing for nobility or peasants? Either one works, as long as the waistline of the modern example is sufficiently lower than the originals to look visibly off to the trained eye. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Asking for examples of sagging reproductions of Renaissance breeches?
Some pages giving advice on Renaissance historical costuming--like one of Kimiko's pages on costume myths ( http://www.kimiko1.com/research-16th/CostumeMythsWS/myth04.html )--take great pains to show that Renaissance breeches were worn on the waist rather than slung low on the hips. Of course I'm convinced because I've never seen an actual historical example or illustration of a sagging fit, not to mention that I (perhaps rather unusually for men in their twenties) always wear my modern trousers on the waist. But now I'm curious about how the wrong sagging fit would look on reproductions of Renaissance breeches, because I've never seen it in person either; so can anybody refer me to a photograph or illustration that shows such a fit? Thanks beforehand for any answers--or none. I know it's not exactly the kind of thing that a good costumer would like to document. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
