At 07:57 PM 12/3/2007, you wrote:
So, what's your
dressmaker's dummy wearing today?
--cin
Cynthia Barnes
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mine is wearing a white linen Elizabethan shift. And an elastic
waisted terra-cotta linen street-length skirt that I made because I
had pretty fabric and needed a new
At 08:52 PM 11/24/2007, you wrote:
Heh. You win. I can see my sewing machine. However, I do NOT have a
place to plug it in.
Liadain
Having just returned from venturing to town, and buying MORE stuff
I'm still working on my embroidered Elizabethan commission and
cursing my embroidery
At 02:13 PM 11/25/2007, you wrote:
Embroidery? MACHINE?!? What manner of sorcery is THIS? G
It is a wondrous thing, this sorcery--except when you have spent
months planning out the designs for this outfit (it is for Carnevale
in Venice, and accuracy is not a requirement) and then the
At 12:55 PM 10/27/2007, you wrote:
I am betting on jewels or studs too. We would have to look at all the other
portraits of her to really figure out what they are. And we need to track
where this painting ends up so that someone can go look at it!! :)
They look like studs to me, too. Isn't it
At 12:52 AM 10/9/2007, you wrote:
Personally, I want the butterfly design on a velvet cape (a real
shaped cape, not as shown; for which the design would probably have
to be re-shaped) as an antique gold butterfly on a warm brown
background, maybe with some beaded accents.
Fran
Wow, those
At 06:31 PM 10/6/2007, you wrote:
These are not cheap books (most of them anyway) but they are some of
the best for the period. Amazon.com carries most of them, but not
always at the best price.
My favorite place for buying books like these is http://www.abebooks.com
Sometimes the prices
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
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At 07:08 PM 7/27/2007, you wrote:
And I had forgotten the
term pocket Venus. That will thrill Terry, who is tired of being the
shortest of her peers no matter what group she's with at the time.
As I'm the same height as Terry, I rather like that term myself. :-)
Dianne
At 08:27 PM 7/29/2007, you wrote:
Did you say you used the ultra heat-n-bond? I did that once for a
baby quilt I was making with the exact same results. Heat-n-bond
LITE is the product made for applique projects. Never once had a
problem with it during sewing or in use of quilt.
Jodi
At 10:22 PM 7/16/2007, you wrote:
What I found so interesting is that I, at least, don't usually associate
pink with a mean character.
I think that and the kittens on the wall and her constant smiling
were intended to point up the fact that she was the
evil-that-thinks-itself-good.
Either
At 11:44 PM 7/16/2007, you wrote:
Hi Harry Potter fans!
may we come to a concensus here and now about the last book, due to be
released in the US July 21? Please, no discussing it on the public list
for at least a month! No spoilers, ok?
thanks!
Arlys, another fan
Works for me. I may well
I was going to see the movie this coming weekend as I hate dealing with
large crowds, but the last Harry Potter book will be hitting my mailbox
sometime Saturday, so I will have to read the last book first!!
Cindy Abel
I went to see it yesterday afternoon, and was pleased to find it not
At 12:58 PM 7/9/2007, you wrote:
I've also seen
them with drawstrings alone in the same area--both make a very pretty
presentation, but I'm wondering if they are documentable in period? I have
some gorgeous saffron linen here that I really want to make into a leine,
but I'd like it to be as
At 05:34 PM 6/23/2007, you wrote:
Katheryne
who is trying to recover from the first week of (paid) work in over
2 years of unemployment.
You found a job! GREAT!! I'm so happy for you!
Dianne
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At 05:40 PM 6/18/2007, you wrote:
Clark Gable
Oh, yum!
Or Cary Grant
Or James Stewart
Or George Clooney, who reminds me more and more of Cary Grant as he ages...
But my dream costume would be either Elizabeth I's Pelican gown, or
Jane Seymour's Holbein gown
Dianne
At 04:33 PM 6/13/2007, you wrote:
It was pretty strange but cleverly done. The part that worried me was how
many faces I recognized !!
Anne
I didn't whether to be pleased or worried by how many that I not only
recognized the painting, but could identify the subject or painter or both...
At 02:07 PM 6/6/2007, you wrote:
I'm not a policy wonk, but I AM in the DC burbs (NIH contractor) -
didn't realize that there were other local people here!
I'm not in DC, but not too horrendously far--I am in York, PA.
Dianne
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At 08:47 AM 6/3/2007, you wrote:
Hi,
Just wanted to share, i happily got to make the dress before she
comes and pick it up friday next week.
I dont think i have ever worked so hard in my life before, sewing
wise, never a moments piece.
http://www.my-drewscostumes.dk/sofie3.htm
Bjarne
At 08:00 AM 6/5/2007, you wrote:
I make costume for a living too...
historical stuff for museums and re-enactors mostly - odd bit of tv chucked
in - I also make bridal and evening wear, etc. oh, and have my
first british
army commision as a tailor now, so most definitely full time :o)
At 12:33 PM 5/30/2007, you wrote:
In a message dated 5/30/2007 12:29:06 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What is the name for that stuff?
Sounds wonderfull!
Most like it is fusible webbing. Sold under brand names like Steam A
Seam or Heat-n-Bond. Warning! Do NOT get
At 08:22 PM 5/27/2007, you wrote:
Obligatory Costume Content: I, myself, am spending a good part of the
weekend getting my garb ready for SCA tourney seasonMending, finishing
hems, finally making that outer garment I swore I didn't want to do without
for another year;o)
--Sue
And I am
At 05:13 PM 5/4/2007, you wrote:
MaggiRos
~who loves A Knight's Tale a whole lot .
(grin) So do I. In fact, I just watched it today.
Dianne
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At 04:52 PM 5/3/2007, you wrote:
I can't see any mention of multiple parts, so it
appears to be a 1-shot thing. BBC Four calls it a full
length feature, and apparently ran an hour and 20
minutes, which for BBC America means 2 hours.
That looks just yummy. THAT I will stay up to watch!
Dianne
At 03:01 PM 4/30/2007, you wrote:
If you would give me your 2 cents, i would be very pleased.
I spended this day desiding wich trim to use on the red francaise
dress i am going to make. But desided i have not yeat!
On the left side i made box pleatings with a tiny gold trim in the
edge. On the
At 03:56 PM 4/25/2007, you wrote:
I'm thinking about selling a book I have entitled Medieval
European Jewellery by Ronald Lightbown. I know this isn't exactly ...
...snip...
... idea where I can find the value of this book? It's in very good
condition and still has the intact dust cover.
At 12:03 PM 4/20/2007, you wrote:
Just for fun, I'm planning to dress four 16 vinyl dolls(Wilde
Imaginations Ellowyne Wilde doll)in historical or at least historical
cut/modern fabrics in RenFaire-inspired dress.
What a pretty doll. Wouldn't the Basic Brunette make a lovely Anne Boleyn?
At 01:00 PM 4/20/2007, you wrote:
And at least it isn't that goddawful Robin Hood.
MaggiRos
heee. I LIKE Robin Hood. (When I remember to watch it, that is.)
For me, Robin Hood has always been at least 90% fantasy anyway, so I
don't care about the costumes. But The Tudors is supposed to
At 09:13 PM 4/14/2007, you wrote:
I was looking for dotted swiss for a show I was costuming last fall.
It was impossible to find white on white at a reasonable price. I
don't think the fabric has been in style since the 1950s when my
play took place. Lots of little girl dresses were made of
At 01:32 PM 4/14/2007, you wrote:
I somehow got the impression that pin-dotted fabric is in style so
it would be easy to find, but I think I was wrong about that. I
went to the dentist in Berkeley on Wednesday and consoled myself by
going to three fabric stores over there (Poppy,
At 05:13 PM 4/12/2007, you wrote:
At 20:15 12/04/2007, you wrote:
Check out your friends in their Tudor garb tonight. Tune into Style
Network.
Sadly, these days 10:00 is past my bedtime. :-) But I've got my DVR
set to record it!
Dianne
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At 12:51 PM 4/9/2007, you wrote:
Marie Antoinette, the monarch who liked her hair big and her shoes
embroidered, would have swooned over these.
Not a bad heel, I wonder if you could re-cover them ..
Actually, I'm picturing them with a pink or citrus-y green linen sundress!
Dianne
At 02:10 AM 4/7/2007, you wrote:
I also haunt my local Pendleton outlet. I dropped the better part
of $250 there today, but that was for a total of 64 yards of
beautiful Pendleton wool. I was a happy. I walked out with nothing
every time I went for the past three or four months, because
Walmart carries garment quality fabric? I suppose it does depend
on location. The Walmart here (NW WA) has a somewhat diverse craft
department, carries a limited selection of patterns and I haven't
seen any fabric there that I would want to make clothing from
unless it was a one time
At 11:06 PM 4/2/2007, you wrote:
My youngest sister dresses in the Florida teacher casual look, I
dress artsy/dramatic, and my older sister dresses in sexy or in club
wear. My older sister was born at the beginning of the baby boomers
and youngest at the end of the generation. I don't think
At 06:42 PM 3/30/2007, you wrote:
By 1971 or 1972 (grade 10 for me) the pant suit was being worn by
those of us who considered ourselves very fashionable. I had several. One
which my mother made in a gorgeous canary yellow crepe polyester with wide
white collar, sort of a tunic dress, quite
At 03:33 PM 3/21/2007, you wrote:
Just back them with a small piece of your fabric (with applied
interfacing) the has been cut to a little more that the original
shape of the spangle.
Lady Margaret
10. Re: RE: oval metal spangels (Bjarne og Leif Drews)
I just got a Be-Dazzler (yes, just
At 10:50 AM 3/20/2007, you wrote:
I found a substitute for the oval leaf spangels i searched for.
This place has some nailsheads wich are suitable. they also have
some gorgeous silk ribbons, real silk!
http://www.mjtrim.com/catalog/family.aspx?family=26%3a06
Bjarne
Great minds think alike,
At 03:18 PM 3/5/2007, you wrote:
just was at a friends house and she showed me this *AWESOME*
press. It did metal flashing and soda can metal the same as paper.
There are leaf dies for it was well as flower dies and a bunch of
terribly cute ones... It's called a Wizzard(sp) and is all the
At 02:33 PM 2/20/2007, you wrote:
t was a nice day, but also a sad day today, my little birdie died
this afternoon. He was ancient old, and it was the best because he
had difficulties to keep his ballance at the stick.
Bjarne
I'm sorry about your bird, Bjarne. What kind of bird was he?
I
At 12:13 PM 1/26/2007, you wrote:
So my housemate got the job of making three bridesmaids' dresses in
two weeks from some OTHER color. grin
I hope she charged them a hefty rush fee!
Dianne
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At 11:11 AM 1/2/2007, you wrote:
When thinking realistic, what do you think you will finish of
historical costumes in 2007?
I am planning to finish the blue velvet pearled-and-spangled
Elizabethan, a Spanish 16th century doublet gown, and several tunics
and linen undergarments for Pennsic.
At 01:19 PM 12/22/2006, you wrote:
As for the novel itself, it was disappointing, but the Constant Princess
made me nuts. It was so PC! And it had no end-- it ...
...snip...
... person and the narritive. UGH. The only person I have
ever seen do that well is Diana Gabaldon. Now that woman can
At 04:53 PM 12/11/2006, you wrote:
I have one in my garage (don't ask),
-C.
Now you KNOW we have to ask!
Dianne
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From: E House [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 3:38 AM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] burn test
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(E.g. if only the warp threads dissolve, take
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Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Casanova on PBS
Drat. As I was flipping though the tv guide, I saw this, and almost
decided to watch it, but found something
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From: Gail Scott Finke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 2:46 PM
Subject: [h-cost] Re: Dancing with the Stars (US version)
Sara whatever-her-name-is, the one who is such a bad dancer, was supposed
to
be a sort of undead
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Bad historical costume movies
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The Conqueror, with John
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From: Catherine Olanich Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Bad historical costume movies
On Sunday 24 September 2006 1:35 am, Melody Watts wrote:
hmmm. what about
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From: Susan B. Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Basic medieval costume sources
Depending on what you have in mind, this just might fit the bill
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From: Guenievre de Monmarche [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'Historical Costume' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 9:24 AM
Subject: RE: [h-cost] Is this wool flannel appropriate for any costuming
uses?
I don't believe in wool gabardine for medieval
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From: Sharon at Collierfam.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: h-costume@mail.indra.com
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 8:11 PM
Subject: [h-cost] Jewelry plaques?
Someone within the past few months posted a link to a place that sells
jewelry findings, especially flat
Then there are the poor
souls who can hear the sound of all types of fabric and they do quilting,
historic costuming, mundane sewing and can't possibly leave a fabric shop
without something because one of their addictions will catch them. :-)
Elizabeth
Yep, that would be me...
Dianne
Fiant simii!!
- Original Message -
From: Gail Scott Finke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 12:41 PM
Subject: [h-cost] Re: knit and crochet
I did a couple of crocheted
afghans when I was around 12, and lots of knitted scarves and things (I
wasn't
A friend has been trying to teach her daughter to knit (she's
8), and I may suggest crochet first for her. It's a lot more instant
gratification, useful for those with a small attention span.
grins..yup, that's why I like it so much!
Dianne
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From: Marie Schnoor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] in search of a lost person
.
I always say, it's like being a Beatles fan or and Elvis fan; most people
I know are either one
I hope to get a dog when I have more spare time!
P.S. My father hated cats, and wouldn't allow us to have one; all of our
pets
when I was growing up were dogs. Big dogs, like Labradors and
Weimaraners.
But my mother liked all kinds of animals, and so did her second husband.
The
pet they
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Subject: Re: OT--the Weather (was Re: [h-cost] hello out there??)
We just finished up with some very heavy rains here in Eastern PA... and now
it's
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Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 5:12 AM
Subject: [h-cost] When and how did you start making costume?
In discussion with a couple of friends at the weekend, we fell to talking
about when
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Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 12:15 AM
Subject: Current projects (was Re: [h-cost] hello out there??)
Since nothing else is going on here, this may be a good time for people
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From: Melody Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 3:15 AM
Subject: [h-cost] Tudor/Elizabethan Jewelery
HI,
Can anyone reccomend a book ,with drawings or photos , of Tudor and
Elizabethan jewelery?
There is one
If anyone if planning a trip to Orlando, you might want to take a side
trip to Sarasota and visit the Ringling Museum. It is well worth it!
Penny Ladnier,
Owner
I have a dear friend I grew up with whose (now ex) wife was the one who
introduced me to Ren Faires and the SCA. His brother
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Subject: [h-cost] Titanic film/live
If you thought that awful Celine Dion and the skull-scraping
heart-going-on
song was bad, you'd better go hide under the
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Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Historical Films
**
Hopefully, every once in a while, there's some ART!
The line between entertainment
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Subject: Re: [h-cost] Historical Films
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Sometimes, the entertainment of previous days
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Subject: [h-cost] Knight's Tale
They did the same thing with A Knight's Tale. Decent story, fun
characters and okay clothing but the
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Hi! Dawn
I will put my hand up and admit that I am the same! I have even bought a
pair of second hand curtains to make into an
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From: Becky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 7:17 AM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] My copy of The Tudor Tailor arrived!
I'm well underway into making my first Renaissance garb. My daughter has
chosen the portrait
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Subject: Re: [h-cost] My copy of The Tudor Tailor arrived!
I'm near Harrisburg. I'm hoping to find someone close to chech in with
about Ren dress
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 1:31 PM
Subject: [h-cost] talk about tight lacing
Hey,
What do you say, a 15 inch waist:
http://www.aftonbladet.se/atv/player.html?catID=10clipID=7149
I dont like
But I can see elements of both in my
kids' facial features. I daresay there's no historic look that quite
matches that!
--Robin
I imagine you are right!
My grandmother was half English, half Norwegian, and I look just like
her--my hair is even turning the same beautiful silver hers did,
As my father (the final owner of the long-lived family parrot, handed down
from his grandfather; which grandfather BTW ran away to sea to as a cabin
boy and came back after one voyage swearing he'd never be a sailor again),
says:
Did you ever think about what the back of Long John
And yeah, if you got a hubby willing to dress like Capt'n Jack... oye.
Enjoy yourselves. ;-)
I fell in love with my husband because he enjoyed wearing kilts... I
really like men in kilts.
Kimiko
Last week's People magazine had a photo of Johnny Depp, taken on the set of
the new POtC
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It really depends. Some designer clothing just caters to the desire to
have something different without
This is a sad thread.
My mom was given 6 months when they FINALLY diagnosed the anal lesion that
she had as 3rd stage cancer. It was diagnosed because the lesion contained
LUNG cells... which means the primary site was in her lungs --- All due to
smoking from the time she was a teenager.
Why is there such a heavy preponderance of fantasy titles among the most
owned? I know Harry Potter is popular, but what about bestselling authors
like Danielle Steele? Do you know if the site designer first announced
the site on fantasy lists and thus gained an early preponderance of
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Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re: Martha to Mia - I needed that!
I'm a size 14 in commercial patterns, my main measurements are pretty
close
(hips
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Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Dune
While I really enjoyed both sets of movies (SciFi version, and the
original movie with extended info), the books
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Miniatures of Nicholas Hillard and his wife Alice Brandon.
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From: Sue Clemenger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re: Elizabethan Corset habits.
My shoulders are
broad enough that I'd probably look like a peasant masquerading as a lady
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Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 3:17 PM
Subject: [h-cost] Re: lego troubles
Bjarne wrote:
Kids dont want to play with brigs anymore, they want to play on
computers.
Company didnt realise this and
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Subject: Re: [h-cost] favourite fairy /christmass movi
Christmas - I'm a complete sucker for just about all of them, but White
Christmas, (I fell in love with the red 'santa'
The non-existent wall that prevents otherwise intelligent people from
enjoying these delights of Opera and Shakespeare is sewn, here in America
anyway,
by the anti-intellectual brigade. Those usually sports-soaked numb-nuts
that
seem to be kewl in school and never really leave college for
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Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] embroidery supplies
Not sure about the spangles, but one huge source of glass beads would be
Fire Mountain, at
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Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] embroidery supplies
You got off easy ;-) I shop the sale stuff once or twice a year, when
there's enough to make a big
And finally, one of my new favorites:
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/
The search utility here isn't anywhere near as good as bildindex's, but
it's got a lot of great paintings. Click 'recherche' at the top to do a
search. The dating info on this website makes it hard to pick a date
range, but if
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Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] helpfull tool
Lavolta Press wrote:
They are called spline curves, and you can get them in a number of
lengths at big
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Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] puffed sleeves
What Anne so dearly longs for is leg o' mutton sleeves. Just google it.
The Anne books take place from
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Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 10:25 PM
Subject: [h-cost] OT vacuums
I can't be the only one with this problem--little threads, all over my
carpet, and a vacuum that just can't handle 'em.
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From: Jacqueline Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re: puffed sleeves
Hope that helps to pin costuming dates down a bit better. And it's made me
realize that I analyze
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Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 6:19 AM
Subject: [h-cost] Tudor/Elizabethan Jewellery
I'm sorry to be so vague and forgetful, but recently someone posted a
lovely Tudor/Elizabethan
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To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Current day fashion magazines
. I adore ponchos, not the classic diamond ethnic ones so
much, but the retangular-across
Bjarne og Leif Drews wrote:
Sorry sorry folks, drinks on me!
I ment why so much renaissance fairs and renaissance reenactors and not
so many 18th century?
Aside from the fact that I don't know of any 18th century groups near me...
I just plain like the clothing from the 16th century
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From: Lavolta Press [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] why renaissance and not 18th century?
There we disagree, because I think this is an artificial distinction. It's
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From: Carol Kocian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] 1968 SCA views of medieval clothing
Likewise, American Civil War reenactment probably got popular for its
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From: Wanda Pease [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 4:28 PM
Subject: RE: [h-cost] New to me Eleonora of Toledo
Pardon me if this looks patronizing. It isn't. I am putting these down as
I
try it out,
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