In a message dated 8/17/2007 1:26:15 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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the wide pane they use for lining the shoulders
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BTW this is called a "yolk'. Not all modern shirts have them.
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In a message dated 8/12/2007 5:16:28 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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so I do not believe that she would be wearing something from the
1912's at a 1927 ball.
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Exactly! Especially considering the era. The style hasn't just
changed...it's been exp
In a message dated 8/11/2007 9:35:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Please can anybody help me out of this dilemma?
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20's gowns are structureless and you can make one in no time. The secret is
finding a great fabric. I'd splurge on something bead
Haven't seen any H-costume posts for a few days. Did everyone go on
vacation???
[I hope so. Have fun y'all!]
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In a message dated 7/28/2007 7:49:04 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The french are as good as the BBC when they make their own history.
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They just don't want anyone else to understand it. :-P
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In a message dated 7/27/2007 8:56:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
short women should
always wear one color, or at best, different shades of the same color.
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Hm... whatever. Most fashion advice is very subjective.
I can't think of a much mor
In a message dated 7/27/2007 6:03:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think the minimal-bustle "natural form era" styles, which is what this
is, look better on shorter women than on very tall and slender ones.
Tall women can wind up looking like a pole in them, if th
In a message dated 7/27/2007 5:19:34 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is in keeping with the type of decoration you see
in the late 17th century.
oops...I meant the 18th century
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In a message dated 7/27/2007 4:21:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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unless your French is much better than mine
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That's a laugh!
When we did the miniseries "The Wedding", the designer brought all these
great 1950's clothes from LA for the extras. Well
In a message dated 7/27/2007 1:27:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Enough fabric in the skirts, and cutting the panels in
gores instead of squares, would make them drape
properly, which is probably what you're reacting to.
Looks more 1640smaybe
In a message dated 7/27/2007 9:45:16 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Seriously, what is the film's title? What year? Who's in it? A search for
Teatre du Solleils gets me no results.
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Is it this one? From 1978?
_http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077941/
In a message dated 7/27/2007 9:07:46 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You better buy the old DVD with Teatre du Solleils version of Mollieres
life. Even it is so old now, the costumes are stunning
beautifull...
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I'd love to! If it can b
So, has anyone seen this yet?
The trailer is not promising costume-wise. Indeed, the women's gowns look
like they are all the same dress in different fabrics.
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In a message dated 7/26/2007 4:46:30 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's just the taffeta, we tried it on and the bodice wasn't smooth at all.
Well, it wasn't pressed or anything yet, but it was clear to me it will need
some "smoothing" process.
You have lots of
In a message dated 7/23/2007 11:42:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Do they want to sell the patterns to reenactors as well, or just for
the Halloween crowd?
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A...there lies the rub. I think in this specific instance it the "I
wanna look like
In a message dated 7/22/2007 9:22:02 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I doubt Simplicity would have bothered with a good one for a photo shoot
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I dunno. I think the stylist for the shoot has a goal of making it look like
something one can get toget
In a message dated 7/21/2007 5:09:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Would butterick 4484 work better?
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It, too is from "Corsets & Crinolines". It's a late 1700s corset. It's not
my favorite pattern. The Simplicity looks to be more useful as it is mo
In a message dated 7/21/2007 12:21:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The corset is laced edge to edge
in the Simplicity pattern, which I prefer not to do, and I always
have the back edges level, so no, in my opinion, that inverted "V" is
not correct.
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In a message dated 7/20/2007 2:42:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The collour could be changed to
more historical accurate, but not bad at all.
That's what I was thinking. It's the fabric choice, and the way the
decoration is d
I'm going to this exhibit tomorrow.
_http://www.nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/identity_by_design/IdentityByDesign.html_
(http://www.nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/identity_by_design/IdentityByDesign.html)
This online version is really good! Check it out. Beautiful and amazing!
Click on one of the dif
In a message dated 7/13/2007 7:58:19 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
However, I think it´s a great
idea to dress a vampire like a reptile!
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I agree. But without foreknowledge of her idea... the costume has nothing to
do with conveying anything rep
In a message dated 7/13/2007 7:37:10 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
nothing to
do with Romania, Transylvania, and the 19th century, but hey, this is
fiction, right?
Then don't, at the beginning of the film, put up a date in 20 ft high
numb
In a message dated 7/12/2007 3:23:43 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
the funny thing is the Old Oldman Dracula butt-hair costume was one
>of the more historically-consistent designs in that film...
Really? What period?
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Mid to late Chinese Drag Quee
In a message dated 7/11/2007 3:46:24 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Oh, dear, an Ascot hat, an Edwardian collar, and see through
shoulders.
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I know!
And of course the dreaded but all too common unbuttoned doublet syndrome on
the men. [Some of my favor
In a message dated 7/8/2007 2:47:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
I dont know excactly when it was send, but it was shown on the danish
television news, so it must have ben recent.
It was the fall Haute Couture line 2007 no?
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In a message dated 7/8/2007 1:35:34 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Here is a sample of his ready wear, Fall2007
http://www.style.com/fashionshows/collections/F2007RTW/complete/thumb/CLACRO
IX
M..colorful!
Not.
But much more wearable.
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In a message dated 7/8/2007 8:44:45 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The models all looked drugged out,
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Really. I thought Heroine Chic went out in the 90's.
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and what was with the weird hats stuck to
the sides of their heads?
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When we did the miniseries "The Wedding" for Harpo productions here in
Wilmington, there was a flashback scene to a 1920's Deb ball, for wealthy
blacks.
Many of the girls were "well set up". We made a bunch of bust binding
thingies out of 8" wide elastic. It was rather study, eager to spring
In a message dated 7/5/2007 6:59:54 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
AlbertCat wasn't kinding about the lace and embroidery prices.
http://tinyurl.com/2l7w2a
http://tinyurl.com/26g2xg
http://www.finefabrics.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category
In a message dated 7/5/2007 4:49:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How about making the tunic out of lace and add a few pearls, pink, green and
clear beads to spots.
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And of course they make the most opulent already embroidered / beaded /
beribbone
Well, doesn't look like anything I've ever seen from 1914.
I designed a "Three Penny Opera" that was set in 1914to compliment the
fox trots and 2 steps in the music...and so I researched that very year.
The waist was at a high-natural line..kinda like the late 1820s or where men
wore
I remember evening gowns, and red carpet gowns, start to move from that
clinging 1930's type of shift towards a more structured look. It was still a
close fitting shift, but in crisper fabrics with more flair at the hem. You see
more trains and fish-tails. And decoration starts to move from
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Ha ha...what fun!
But I must say, a lot of hats were not rakishly tilted to the left, but worn
on the left side of their faces! The ashtray hat would've looked better on
her head instead of her ear! And Ivanna Trumps hat was much better looking than
that jacket she was wearing ...yuck!
In a message dated 6/28/2007 4:55:19 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes. The boning in the dress is to keep the shape of the dress, it
is not to act as a corset. Boning is often used to strengthen the
closing edges, whether for lacing or buttoning. It also is used
In a message dated 6/26/2007 2:31:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(Sorry no accents - don't know how!)
Suzi
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FYI
I don't know how to do it on a Mac, but if you have Windows:
Go to START
Then to "All Programs"
then to "Accessories"
In a message dated 6/19/2007 4:05:37 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Delcambre is a small town and several town citizens complained about this
"style" of dress
Now you know the rest of the story.
So if "several citizens" [I wonder how many] complained, say about
Oh... when I think of all the polyester shirts in Ice cream colors and
stripes with long collars and wide cuffs I wore in prep-schoolYikes!
['71-'75]
They all had little tiny round burn holes with melted edges in them from pot
seeds exploding in all those joints I and my long haired f
I'm sorryI meant to add that you might be able to get the tiny even
pleats by doing something like a smocking technique...like tiny cartridge
pleats... at both ends of the frill. Then letting it collapse flat in one
direction... the same at both ends.
I'm making this up, y'know. I've ne
This must mean tiny knife pleatsthink the underside of a mushroom cap.
At home you might get the effect by taking the finished strip and sewing in
tiny full return pleats at the hem and the end to be sewn to the chemisette,
then pinning it taught to the ironing board so the pleats run t
In a message dated 6/19/2007 1:23:37 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
One teacher I worked with absolutely forbade them in her classroom, as in
"You're in college now, dress like the big boys now!"
Do guys who wear their pants like this really think we ladies will be
i
In a message dated 6/18/2007 9:27:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
People caught wearing baggy trousers that show underwear in Delcambre,
Louisiana, USA, will soon face up to six months jail. The new law will make
wearing saggy trousers an act of indecent exposure.
In a message dated 6/13/2007 1:05:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Am I the only one that thinks this is quite horrible?
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Yes! I saw that a couple of days ago. Beautiful! And I love to hear the Bach
solo cello too!
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In a message dated 6/12/2007 11:39:34 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But having recently bought the past patterns edwardian straight front corset
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I HATE that pattern! It has little to do with the envelope illustration.
Find another pattern!
I have a friend who wants me to make him a costume for an American colonial
Town Crier. He says he's seen an illustration with the Crier in, judging from
what he describes, as an English Smock. Would this be so? Of course I want
him in a coat and waistcoat [even if the smock is correct, I st
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!
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Alas, I have no idea. But I picked it up at the local, ho-hum fabric store.
I'll look for it the next time I'm there, and write
In a message dated 5/30/2007 11:13:34 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Or appliques of wool or silk and gold cord stichet on by machine.
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There are some amazing things made now to help you with applique. I used
this stuff that was, not sticky a
In case you didn't knowthere an exhibit of fashions by Poiret at the Met
Museum in NYC.
You can see a slide show of 9 images [what a tease!] if you go to
NewYorker.com
look to the left of the site for "Slide Shows".
And while you're there, check out the slide show of Edward Hopper pa
In a message dated 5/15/2007 5:48:40 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've also got Butterick 4210
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Hat D looks very "Merry Widow" deep mourning bonnet to me. Imagine it all
black with a veil all the way round.
I'd go super Edward Gorey just fo
In a message dated 5/10/2007 4:47:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well its for the red dress i am making, i have promised her to make a wide
brimmed silk taffeta hat, but for indoors she could wear this lace frill?
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Indeed. She can wear t
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sat, 5 May 2007 4:07 AM
Subject: RE: [h-cost] Re: Theater vs. Historic
One of the neatest things I remember from 1968" "Romeo and Juliet" was
when
our teacher pointed out that there were colors for each
family---
China silk is very thin, though not sheer, silk that moves and flutters with
the slightest breeze. It's shiny and slick.
In Balenchine's ballet of "Orpheus" [Stravinsky] when the "Dark Angel" and
Orpheus are traveling between the world of the living and the Underworld, a
china silk curtain
In a message dated 4/30/2007 5:08:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Maybe switch trims? The bigger one on the pleated side and the smaller trim
on the rusched side?
This is what I was thinking.
But I like the small trim best. The bi
In a message dated 4/28/2007 8:40:56 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
can anybody else answer
definitively whether paisley as an all over design was used in a Regency
dress.
I saw a dress in the Metropolitan Museum several years ago that had a very
small warp-d
In a message dated 4/22/2007 9:07:37 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And of course, you can't forget the "magical growing skirt". In one scene
it's a mini, then it's suddenly knee length, then ankle length!
Who wants to bet they filmed that sequen
In a message dated 4/21/2007 9:02:42 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"Tarzan" and "Bolero", the Bo Derek
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Tarzan! HAHAHAHAHAHA! What a riotous mess! It's so bad it's hysterical. I
love Richard Harris' [an actor I love to hate] advice to his daughter B
In a message dated 4/20/2007 6:46:06 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Robin Hood has always been at least 90% fantasy anyway
***
Yeah, but it is HISTORICAL fantasy in that the events that are the catalyst
for the whole thing concern real people [Richard
In a message dated 4/20/2007 5:04:52 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Maybe the American screenwriters know more about our country's
history than we do, and Anne gets to keep her head!!"
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She just carries it around on a plate
It's like a s
In a message dated 4/15/2007 4:47:35 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So my question is: What date
would you suggest the drawing of the lady to be? My guess was mid eighteenth
century, but now i am not so sertain any more because of the pleats in the
back.
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In a message dated 4/11/2007 8:48:39 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
They do look like disks of some sort (buttons
would approximate). It also looks to me as though there is lacing cord
through the centers.
*
That's what I meant. Like fancy grommet
In a message dated 4/10/2007 9:45:37 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anyone know for sure if these are eyelets or buttons? Is there a cord
running through the center holes or is there a cord wrapped around the
"button"?
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Looks like fancy eyelet
In a message dated 4/10/2007 2:32:40 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There was a beautifull catalog to the exhibition wich i baught off cause,
and i think i have to buy some more to my friends.
Can we get one? Not from you...but the museum or something...
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In a message dated 4/10/2007 3:40:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Its the german lummieres members, they dont dare to wear makeup, and they
therefore hold to the fact that men didnt wear makeup in 18th century, but
they did PERIOD
Of course
In a message dated 4/10/2007 8:28:03 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Oh gosh its going to be so boring to make all that pleated trim, it has trim
all over
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Where ARE your assistants when you need them
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In a message dated 4/10/2007 7:28:45 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you are making box pleats, Hunnisett says that you should use 3
times the length, I.5 to 2 times is for gathers.
**
Yes, as you already know, I'm sure, 3 times the length for f
In a message dated 4/9/2007 6:31:58 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Complete accuracy aside, it is a fun discovery when you find
something that may pass for a period shoe.
*
Those long square toed boots and shoes that look very mid to late 1600's
In a message dated 4/7/2007 3:19:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And one might remember that at least in the 20th C that a Sears store
opening up did not cause all the other MomAnd Pops to go out of business!
*
They didn't? Are you su
In a message dated 4/7/2007 12:42:59 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't see anyone protesting Sears, of course.
**8
Well, Sears ain't what it used to be...partly because of Wal-mart.
But I don't hate Wal-mart and one can shop anywhere they please
Walmart carries garment quality fabric?
*
Depends on the garment
I found one of my fave fabrics at Wal-mart: large, colorful, realistic
tropical fish floating in a white void. Made a great Hawaiian shirt!
**
and now...OT
I saw on Showtime an inst
Well, there's no definition for the way we use the word "hand" when
referring to textiles, in the regular dictionary. So maybe you need to define
it in
the sentence, like "the feel and drape [or hand] of the fabric."
It's a bit wordy...but then you can just use "hand" thereafter.
***
In a message dated 3/15/2007 11:23:26 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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I'm odd. I just love the way all the lines of the gold lace meet.
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In a message dated 3/13/2007 11:36:21 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i cut the cuffs along the selvedge, it shines differently than the rest of
the suit.
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Oh... you mean you cut them across the grain instead of along the grain...as
we say.
W
In a message dated 3/6/2007 11:12:04 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> What is your source for the flammeum
> being "coral red"? I'm curious.
>
Not sure.
I remember it from costume history in school, but it has been also supported
by various people and sources after that.
In a message dated 3/6/2007 11:01:31 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> but there are clearly
> some people doing research and applying it. Which is better than
> average. I don't think the costuming, in general, is the strong suit of
> the research they've done, however.
In a message dated 3/6/2007 9:15:26 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Everyone usually massacres Dracula in the
> same
> Freudian way, but this looked like an equally stupid way to massacre
> it. I
> sure wish someone would just do the real story. Anyway, I didn't get a
> chan
In a message dated 3/5/2007 8:57:22 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I've not seen anything so glaringly bad as what we saw in
> Gladiator.
**
At least you can trace the "Gladiator" stuff to a source: the paintings of
Alma-Tadema.They're just making stuff up
In a message dated 3/5/2007 8:57:22 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> the bride in the correct
> colour.
NO they didn't! There was not anything near the bright coral red they should
have been wearing! What were you watching?..'cause it wasn't the same thing I
saw.
Now ho
In a message dated 3/5/2007 6:10:34 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> though I still wish BBC would
> discover more 19th-century authors instead of perennially refilming Jane
> Austen, Dickens, and a handful of others.
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I just caught "North & South". YUMM
In a message dated 3/6/2007 9:04:47 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> You know you are in trouble with a show when
> the peasants look more authentic than the leads.
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This happens all the time in film and TV.
I saw HBO's "Rome" for the 1st time last nig
Mmm... It's like a creamy desert! Can't you see it with a huge hat full
of green leaves, pink flowers and big blue ribbon?
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In a message dated 2/19/2007 6:48:32 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If it were me, I'd look at recent issues of Vogue.
***
Nahlook at what women in Congress are wearing. Or get a Forbes mag. and
see what's in the adverts and stuff. Know any high e
In a message dated 2/19/2007 10:56:53 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I guess its fitted for shirts and blouses, not dresses.
*
I'll bet you could make a drop-dead gorgeous 1930's bias cut dress out of
it! Not to mention an early 1800's frock.
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Leading strings is the term I've always heard for what you describe.
Lappets are long[ish] bands of lace or needlework that fall in pairs from
the back [or side] of a cap. You see them on ladies in the late 1600's through
a
good deal of the 1700's. And now that I think of it, are they not p
In a message dated 2/8/2007 4:00:17 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There are a number of books I'd look at
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But don't forget actual fashion mags from whatever year you want. Most
libraries have Vogue, McCalls, and the likeall bound up by year.
In a message dated 2/8/2007 12:32:48 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes, it appears you are to pleat up the extra width of the back piece. As to
where the returns golike towards the CB or away from the CB or box
pleatedthat is not knowable with the info y
In a message dated 2/7/2007 3:45:34 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think the "schaube" (gown) may be in Patterns of Fashion. You don't
have to scale up the little pieces, though. If you start with a yoked
shirt pattern to make the yoke, the rest of the gown just
After seeing Gillian Anderson in the very good [though overly sedate
costumed] "Bleak House", a friend told me to check her out in "House of Mirth".
So I did.
Yummy and delicious! Another great story about how awful society can be to
decent people by Edith Wharton.
The costumes are right on.
In a message dated 2/6/2007 9:14:41 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a double tracing wheel that I run along the edge of the pattern,
and it makes an indent 5/8" away.
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I do too...and you can adjust it to other measurements as well [like 1/2" o
In a message dated 2/6/2007 3:04:21 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Has anybody got a sense of how these patterns
run now?
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Isn't the standard 3" of ease?
Things fit a little tighter now than they did a decade ago.
When I was taught to pattern
In a message dated 2/3/2007 9:35:29 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Cut the skirt in one piece and the plaid matches itself. Then cut all
the other pieces that way up on the plaid, so they match too.
*
If it's an even plaid.
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In a message dated 2/2/2007 10:20:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's plaid.
It's all matched.
All the horizontals match (roughly).
Cutting it is going to be wasteful.
I can see that! It still wouldn't take me 12 yards. [and that was the
In a message dated 2/2/2007 1:33:12 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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Did you notice that when you zoom in at the headpiece, you can see that the
wire was attached with heavy buttonholestitches.
Beautiful!
I'm just now looking at this masterpiec
12 yards @45" for the dress? 12 yards
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In a message dated 1/29/2007 7:39:37 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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first and she said it was green because of plants
I believe the earliest form of chlorophyll was red.
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In a message dated 1/29/2007 5:15:31 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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No, no that is late 18th or early 19th century cravats.
Oops!
I was skimming and just saw the "18" and thought 1800's. And it never
occurred to me to call 18th century stocks a "cravat"...though
In a message dated 1/29/2007 2:19:19 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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I'm trying to figure out the dimensions for a late 17th or early 18th
century man's cravat.
It is my understanding that it is a square of silk, which is then folded in
various ways
In a message dated 1/28/2007 7:06:22 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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Usually, it's not even one of those wishy-washy turquoise or aqua colors,
but we both see them differently. Neither of us is color blind, either.
As for color vision itself, I've read that humans ar
In a message dated 1/28/2007 2:56:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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Actually wouldn't there be volcanoes before plants? ;-)
And a sky and an ocean before there was any life. Blue anyone?
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In a message dated 1/28/2007 9:33:44 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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Those color people are a funny lot!
Thank you! As if you can forecast color trends years in advance. It, I
suppose, never occurs to them that they themselves and their so cal
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