[h-cost] Conference publication: Textiles and Text

Below is a conference proceedings that has several papers that look quite interesting. Wish that the price was a bit better though. Currently only available from the publisher and Amazon-UK... Beth Textiles and Text (Maria Hayward and Chris Bennett eds.) October 2007 The 3rd conference

[h-cost] history of nordic costume in 16th century.

Hi, Although it is in danish, lots of the sites has illustrations. The danish book Dagligtliv i Norden i det 16. århundrede by Troels Lund, has ben published to the internet. It is several thick books. The book about costume is here: http://runeberg.org/dagligt/4/ Manny manny interresting

[h-cost] wheelfarthingale

Browsing the book i mentioned earlyer today, finally found the illustration with the wheel farthingale lying on the floor. But i am very disapointed, the illustration is dutch and from 1636. I had seen this illustration in another book by Broby Johansen and he didnt mention the source for the

Re: [h-cost] Halloween and the perception of costume

Audrey Bergeron-Morin wrote: I know I'm not the only one... I wanted to go to work all dressed up. I looked at my medieval clothing and I just couldn't bring myself to wear this to work. For one thing, it would be like cheating. And it wouldn't really be something unusual to wear, from my

Re: [h-cost] Halloween and the perception of costume

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said I have so much costume-related material-- Yeah, it's like that here, too. I found an unfinished STTNG med corps uniform languishing in a box. All it took was zipper installation, shoulder pad removal ( re-build), rank pips, hems at wrists a bit of elastic for under the