RE: [h-cost] dream class

2006-08-13 Thread MaggiRos
How to draft a sleeve pattern that matches the armhole. Draping the body is easy. Figuring out how to make the sleeve so it doesn't pull or bind is a trick I've yet to figure out ( (And why I love tie-in sleeves). MaggiRos --- Becky Rautine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to learn more on

[h-cost] Re: h-costume Digest, Vol 5, Issue 570

2006-08-13 Thread Carol Mitchell
What is ecampus, please? I haven't been able to keep up with the digest very well for health reasons. Thanks Carol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send h-costume mailing list submissions to h-costume@mail.indra.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit

[h-cost] Period for Heidi

2006-08-13 Thread TeaRoseS
Hi all! Does anyone know the decade that the Heidi story is supposed to be set in? I'm especially interested in the orange dress here: _http://tinyurl.com/qfsak_ (http://tinyurl.com/qfsak) Is there a name for this type of little-girl dress? Is the petticoat underneath probably just a

[h-cost] Men' Flemish Garb

2006-08-13 Thread Terri Hirling
Greetings to the list from a lurker. My husband is in the process of making mid-16th century Flemish garb and has the following questions he's asked me to post to the list. 1) In Breughel The Peasant's Wedding, ( http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bruegel/wedding.jpg) the shirt tails of the

Re: [h-cost] Men' Flemish Garb

2006-08-13 Thread Adele de Maisieres
Terri Hirling wrote: 1) In Breughel The Peasant's Wedding, ( http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bruegel/wedding.jpg) the shirt tails of the fellows in the red doublets are out and the point holes are empty (difficult to see in the above link). Still the laces can be seen hanging below the

[h-cost] Humor -- natural fibers

2006-08-13 Thread Susan B. Farmer
Sorry for the cross-post, but this was just too funny! http://www.foxtrot.com/ If you're looking at this on a day other than Sunday, August 13, 2006 -- you want to see the comic for that particular day. susan/ jerusha - Susan Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Tennessee Department of

Re: [h-cost] Period for Heidi

2006-08-13 Thread Carolyn Kayta Barrows
Hi all! Does anyone know the decade that the Heidi story is supposed to be set in? The girl in the wheelchair looks vaguely like mid-1880s. In another one of those 39 images, it looks like there's an adult woman wearing a mid-1880s dress and hat. In no other image is the year, or even the

Re: [h-cost] Men' Flemish Garb

2006-08-13 Thread michaela
2) Are sleeve seams under the arm? That's the way they appear to me. Or down the back? It's a bit hard to say for sure. If you look at the peasants by Hans Sebald Beham of the similar timeframe, most almost certainly have seams going up under the arm, then in some other woodcuts of a similar