At 03:40 15/11/2006, you wrote:
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Quoting Suzi Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
museum. There seems to be a French Hood frame there too, but it's like
no French Hood shape I've ever seen.
There are two MoL wire frames possibly from French hoods that are
pictured in The Age
At 03:44 15/11/2006, you wrote:
Suzi Clarke wrote:
Gable headdresses seem to have been made on a metal wire frame. The
one I made for the Museum of London was based on a copy of the
frame in the museum. ...
If you want to see it, go here.
There's a line in Eleanora di Firenza's accounts that shows she
ordered two. One is in either the Bargello or the Palazzo Vecchio
collection in Florence. I saw it last summer. The docent there
claimed the steel corset was ordered as an orthotic, rather like a
backbrace.
The text in the pdf files are in Czech, but there are some paintings I've
never seen before. And they have pictures of extant garments, too!
http://www.kostym.cz/
Just click on the British flag for English.
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Sorry getting in the middle of the topic. Have you tried braiding your hair
when wet or with a little gel or mousse? Usually it isn't thick hair that is
the problem but how smooth/slick the strands are.
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Hi Elizabeth,
Yes, I've tried the hair taping (as seen in the
I do hair taping just as a modern type hair do, and have found that I either
need to do it when it's wet, or when I've got a bunch of small-ish claw
clips to anchor the hair as I tape it. It's gotten easier and easier as my
hair has grown - a twist of hair reaches from behind one ear over to the
Yeah, I was very surprised when I saw this website for the first time, it's
really good and it seems to deal with authenticity. Many very useful pictures,
really - and links too. And many others... That's not very usual here...I think
the author of this webpage used to have another site which
