Re: [h-cost] Best styles for tall girls - OT

2007-04-03 Thread david webb
Maybe someone's mentioned this already, but the very best style for a tall girl particularly, and ALLl women in general - is GOOD POSTURE! Makes the boobs higher and perkier, narrows the waist and minimizes the gut - instant way to look like you're dropped ten pounds and a zillion degrees more

Re: [h-cost] Mona Lisa

2006-09-27 Thread david webb
As a proud Canadian, standing on guard for thee, trusty ally to Britain and the U.S. in peace and war, etc. etc. yadda, yadda, I winced a bit at the reference to the Canadian outfit (which makes it sound as if the local cowboys, hunting lodge or wedding videotapers had a go at it);-).

[h-cost] Favorite one-period-interprets-another - Victor's book of the opera

2006-08-17 Thread david webb
Has anyone else inherited the c. 1910's Victor book of the opera from their grandparents? I had the reputation of a bookworm as a child, so maybe someone else pawned it off on my parents for me. It includes heaps of photographs of Edwardian opera stars in costume, acting very hard for the camera.

Re: [h-cost] RE: h-costume Digest, Vol 5, Issue 523

2006-07-12 Thread david webb
Have you checked out any art books about Goya? Or try Googling Goya in Images. Or Spanish art galleries. Wasn't he active late 18th century and early 19th c.? Sheridan - Original Message - From: HAGIOS FENUM [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; h-costume@mail.indra.com Sent:

Re: [h-cost] History of measuring tools

2006-06-28 Thread david webb
Greetings all: Some related info on everything you ever wanted to know about household items made of wood: Treen and other wooden bygones : an encyclopaedia and social history Pinto, Edward H. Bell, 1969. x, 458 p., 239 plates : Old, but considered a classic. Also Shire Publications at:

Re: [h-cost] Great Coat

2006-03-17 Thread david webb
I'm wondering if great coat possibly could have been her nickname or personal slang between her and her friends for redingcote? I've deleted the original posting, but wasn't the dairy written in 1787? Weren't redingcotes very stylish then? They two terms sound so similar. I read a book

Re: [h-cost] Bodleian Corset Images, Trade Cards

2006-02-01 Thread david webb
I just realized that my bookmarks aren't working for this site either. It's not the most friendly, intuitive site, but not too hostile either. Bodacious Basic Bodliean url: http://www.rsl.ox.ac.uk/ Click on Online Catalogue and electronic resources link (on left) to get to:

Stocking frame images source Re: [h-cost] Re: knitting stockings

2006-01-12 Thread david webb
Hello everyone: Maybe people have seen these already, but as fate would have it, I just came across an illustration and a model of stocking frames at this site, the Science Society Picture Library London, which includes 30,000 images from the Science Museum, National Railway Museum, and