There is the old saying that Bach had 20 children because his organ had no
stops
Laurie
From: zearti...@hotmail.com
To: h-cost...@indra.com
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 21:49:20 -0500
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Mary I -- FOUND
WOW what a family! Do you think they are all the main
Sorry Saragrace, I guess I trimmed too much...
Laurie
From: zearti...@hotmail.com
To: h-cost...@indra.com
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 21:49:20 -0500
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Mary I -- FOUND
WOW what a family! Do you think they are all the main couple's kids or some
of the married
If I tell you that to me, TCM is the abbreviation for Traditional Chinese
Medicine, you will understand my puzzlement at first. Thank you for spelling
it out in the body of the email...
Laurie
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To: h-cost...@indra.com
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:13:11
Peanut butter or peanut oil is the organic goo-gone of our house.
Laurie
What about eucalyptus oil ? It removes tape adhesive off most surfaces
with no residue left. SidneyTry freezing the sticky stuff with
ice cubes. Or take off with something oily--like salad oil, hit the oil
This just showed up on one of my lists. Thought it might be interesting to
some of you
http://www.vintagesewing.info/index.html
Laurie
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I also love this thread, but this is my favorite response so far. It strikes
so close to home.
Laurie
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008
11:53:33 -0500 Subject: Re: [h-cost] OT-Over-dyeing wool melton1) .
Is it practicable to pre-shrink the fabric enough to prevent this
happening again? And still have the fabric be usable (ie not wavy and
weird
Indeed, That is one of the things I will do, but I am a belt and suspenders
kind of person. Besides, this is my fourth child and I know that expecting one
to read the label is mostly wishful thinking on my part!
Laurie
Why don't you just put in a label that says DRY CLEAN ONLY? Kim
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] you, that is the very first step, indeed!
Laurie
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:13:49 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:
[h-cost] OT-Over-dyeing wool melton I suggest even before experimenting,
get a color wheel from an art shop so you can better
There's at least one yahoo group specifically for this: Custom Bras, started
by Don McGunn, who is also the author of a couple books on making clothing to
fit. He is a very savvy and funny fellow who I am convinced is really out to
help women get the best fit for their body type.
Good luck,
In Wisconsin, about 20 miles south of Milwaukee. I would have to guess she's
probably a dress size 10 or 12. (It's been awhile since I've made anything for
her).
Laurie
Where do you live? And what size is your daughter? Sharon
Hi all,
My 15 year old is in summer school for a production of Jekyll Hyde: The
Musical (which concept, btw, makes my skin crawl). The performance dates are
Aug. 2 3. Surprise, surprise, parents are responsible for providing the
costumes, but the only guidelines are very skimpy. For
Thank you, Dawn, I had hoped you would reply. Your knowledge base is so varied
and always practical!
Laurie Subject: Re: [h-cost] play costume 1888 zelda crusher wrote: For
example, low class street women are to wear button-up shirts, long full
skirts, long sweaters, hats, vests
Low class copycat. There's always one. You get a great idea and then all the
hoi polloi want to ape their betters
Laurie(who is, in fact, the hoi polloi and apes her betters almost constantly)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [h-cost] Farthingale thoughts
I know the application of this is Definately OT, but I am hoping some
historical re-enactors have faced this issue somewhere along the line...
I have been making fulled knitted slippers for awhile and got the idea to make
myself a pair of boots (knee high and no heel-been looking for these
Is this what you are looking for?
http://www.sempstress.org/tools/dialadress.shtml
Laurie
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 12:24:17 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL
PROTECTED] Subject: [h-cost] Elizabethan dress generator Somewhere on the
internet there is a sort of paper doll
I have to say, this post wasn't what I was expecting from the subject line.
Honestly not sure what I *was* expecting.
Thanks for the giggle, Bjarne!
Laurie From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 5 May 2008
20:29:20 +0200 Subject: [h-cost] crotched I know we have
LOL. That's my idea of invested in a costume also, earings and a bum roll!
Laurie
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A new Ren court dress for dancing. I have the
earrings I'm basing the dress on. Now all I have to do is find the fabrics,
trim, beads, make a corset and hoops, get shoes, figure out
Hi Robin
I am glad to hear this. I live about 25 miles away and wanted to attend, but
never got any reply to the e-mail I sent. I'll try again!
Laurie Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:46:44 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [h-cost] Upcoming lectures, Milwaukee (Feel
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:27:27 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*if you spill myrrh into your electric stove and fail to clean it out
sufficiently, the aroma when the stove is on will last about six months.LOL!
That little tidbit has all the earmarks of the voice of experience
Laurie
Is it just me, or has everyone received these last three posts several times?
Laurie
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:31:42 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [h-cost] Money weights in accounts CC:At
01:43 19/02/2008, you wrote:the foreparte of the
It is so unfair that at times like this, I have no way to explain why I have
just laughed myself off the chair.
God give me a hobby with a language I can share with my loved ones.
Laurie
When we were young, we made our irons out of adobe. Sure, you moisten the
fabric you're pressing
Connie,
My guess, gleaned form modern tailoring, is that the issue is posture. It
usually indicates that the shoulders are rolled forward. I am not sure how to
fix this if the gussets are at the ends of the neck slash in a single piece of
fabric like I am used to. The modern fixes that I
Subject: RE: [h-cost]Slightly OT wool follow up Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008
22:47:25 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: It
looks wonderful!! No wonder she's pleased. Patty
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zelda crusher Sent: Tue 1/8
Thank you! Subject: RE: [h-cost]Slightly OT wool follow up Date: Tue, 8 Jan
2008 22:47:25 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: It
looks wonderful!! No wonder she's pleased. Patty
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of zelda
crusher Sent
Several weeks ago, I got help removing the pocket depressions from the red
wool of this coat. If any one is interested in the final outcome I have posted
photos in my livejournal here:
http://laswa.livejournal.com/24074.html
Laurie
Not in my experience. However, I've been playing around with using the fulled
wool fabric for other things. Maybe you could get a vest out of it, or a
handbag? It's a creative opportunity!
Good luck!
Laurie
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I accidentally washed a wool sweater and it
shrank.
Well, I eventually had to resort to soaking the fabric (it is a testament to
how compressed the fibers were that they wouldn't even accept *water* until
they had soaked and I manipulated the seam marks under the water) and then
rolling the seam marks between thumb and forefinger.
In the end,
A while back there was a thread centered on re-fashioning old clothes, which I
remember the elders doing when I was young, and I have dabbled in a bit from
time to time.
This time I have inadvertently wandered into serious re-making territory. It
is a long story involving lack of finances
soutache braid and cover it with a design? Althea
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:14:33 -0800, zelda crusher wrote One thing I've
learned on this list is that there is a vast amount of experience of ALL
sorts among you. Can anyone suggest a cure for the pocket depression?
Thanks in advance
Oh dear, yes I should have said what I've tried already. I used the steam
setting on the iron (which issues *clouds* of steam) and then brushed it with
the cat brush, lol. I think I will try the steam, vacuum and toothbrush team,
followed by the wet it, whack it on the table and vacuum
LOL! That would explain why I got NUTHIN' when I googled Frobisuit!
Laurie From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:09:10 -0800 To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Subject: [h-cost] Frobisuit (WAS: Busy making holiday
gifts?) On Nov 23, 2007, at 10:24 AM, zelda crusher wrote:Date:
Fri
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:23:25 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:
[h-cost] Busy making holiday gifts? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Then Ansel
wants a new Frobisuit for Bristol next year
A what?
Laurie
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Well, they must have been fairly common in the Elizabethan period as there
are quite a few surviving examples in museums of highly embroidered
nightcaps. Try searching the VA, Cleveland Museum of Art, and the MFA
Boston. They all have online images. For construction -
So it looks as though I'd be safe using a basic coif pattern with ties (my hair
is very slippery).
It seems I may have been wrong about the time period I quoted originally,
though. I did a google and found 2 New York Times articles from 1883 and 1884
(related one to the other) about a doctor
I find it interesting that you mention karma because this type of conundrum has
come up on several of my (very diverse) lists recently. Perhaps it is coming
around as it was going around.
At any rate, while I agree with you that Fran takes unacceptable liberties
(ie. name calling and
I took Fran's advice earlier to delete the costume photos subject lines
rather than slog through it all, but this came thru as I was reading 'what's on
your dress dummy'.
For a minute I wondered what I was missing that could have led to the below
quote, but then I realized that the god of
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:33:44 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL
PROTECTED] CC: Subject: [h-cost] Increasing bra sizes the teeny tiny
titty committee
(picks self up after a good long ROFL) Thank you for that little linguistic
treat, Mary!
Laurie
Susan,
I joined a yahoo group called Custom-Bras (for some reason I can't get the
link to paste). It was an offshoot of a sewing group concerned with good fit
and the owner of the new group, Don McGunn, always had really on target
suggestions for fit, so...
I haven't actually tried to
I found it interesting that they made mention of the increase in cup size. Did
they investigate, I wonder, the phenomenon of breast enhancement and /or
increase in general bodyweight for the same period of time?
Laurie
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Is there a quick and easy way to know whether a wool fabric is a good
candidate for fulling? My experiments so far have had wildly different
results (the one which I bought marked 100% wool -a suiting- shrank
almost not at all), the other was a blanket from Value Village (which I
Is there a quick and easy way to know whether a wool fabric is a good candidate
for fulling? My experiments so far have had wildly different results (the one
which I bought marked 100% wool -a suiting- shrank almost not at all), the
other was a blanket from Value Village (which I did the burn
Funny thing is I've met a couple of gentlemen who swear up and down that
pantyhose are the most comfortable things they've ever worn!
Laurie
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Subject: [h-cost] comfort vs. fashion
Date:
I think I get it but it would so much funner if you had pictures...(wink,
wink)
Laurie
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Subject: [h-cost] Directions for Alphonse Mucha hairstyle
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:53:39 -0700
I
These are both on Drea's website, there's more there but I don't have time
to do it right now. I may have other sites, etc bookmarked and will look
later if no one else sugggests them first.
http://www.elizabethancostume.net/
http://www.extremecostuming.com/articles/secondhandclothes.html
That's just beautiful! Thanks for sharing. I may never decide to do that
kind of work, but it is a pleasure to see someone else do it!
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I've made the chemise and the gown, although I didn't finish the sleeve
I followed the previous advice to go to the website and search. They were
right, it wasn't really anything I haven't seen before. But thanks,
anyway!
Laurie
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Audrey,
When I was growing up in the Pleistocene, my brothers told me they were
called fairy hooks, and were there for the purpose of grabbing (and
ripping the guy's shirt, I suppose). No idea what they might be a remnant
of though. Here's some more on the phrase (scroll down to see fruit
How about Over, Under, Around ...Through the Ages
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Subject: [h-cost] help with fashion parade?
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:35:44 +1000
I'm trying to think of catchy
This is the link on my favorites, hope it's the same:
http://sewing.about.com/library/weekly/aa102100a.htm
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Subject: RE: [h-cost] Heat n Bond Hell
Date: Thu, 2 Aug
Only very low, fushia heels! I think her sense of height, which I didn't
notice that much, might come from camera angles, and the fact that she
stands
on a dias to teach while the students are seated, and such. I'm not sure
if
there was a conscious effort to make her look tall and
With thumbs poking thru a cut in the cuff.
Laurie
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Subject: Re: [h-cost] 2002-4 fashions
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 09:17:11 -0400
Was that when young women wore their
Well, okay, but you won't be able to build because all the contractors will
have to move out. The true meaning of showing your Union card. :o)
Laurie
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Subject: [h-cost] Baggy pants (OT but who
From what I can tell, being a relative newbie to Tudor/Elizabethan, The Six
Wives of Henry the VIII (Keith Mitchell) and it's corollary, Elizabeth R
with Glenda Jackson (both PBS, 1970's) are two outstandingly well done
series as well as my first loves of the period.
Laurie
From: Laurie
I was going to ask if it might already be on a webpage, but this would be
wonderful to have access to...
Laurie
if you are willing to share I
could put it up on a webpage.
Thanks,
Sg
I sent a file with illustrations to the original poster
privately, since this list doesn't take
Just cute.
http://www.askdreldritch.com/comic.html
Laurie
(who lives in the Biblio Belt)
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Those don't look like eyelets to me, at least sewn with just thread. If
they were there would be dimple-like tension indents in the fabric around
each one and there isn't. They do look like disks of some sort (buttons
would approximate). It also looks to me as though there is lacing cord
If you answer these questions, please let me know your location and the app.
year you remember these fashions were worn to public elementary through high
school:
1. Mini-skirts: Girl's skirt lengths were measured
2. Girls' pants: When were girls' allowed to wear pants to school.
Fran,
Here's the link,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tvfilmcostuming/
The history (all of about 2 weeks) is too complicated for me to go into
right now, but it has the potential to be very interesting, even after the
current The Tudors buzz dies down.
Laurie
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I like the original tabs. Face it, the whole look is fussy, so it fits.
Laurie
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Subject: [h-cost]
okay, now how about the excommunication.
Laurie
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Subject: [h-cost] Tardis in garage 2
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:52:45 +1100
I have one in my garage (don't ask),
Now you
a partially made 126th century fencing doublet
I'd like to see that... (couldn't help myself, sorry)
Laurie
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the name of a person. Good luck from there...
Laurie
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To:
I store mine in the form of tracings (on butcher paper) wrapped around bolt
ends from the fabric store, One sheet of paper wraps them up and gets
labelled and then I put a label on the end of the bolt so I can see what
style and size, and made to whose measure on what date.
Laurie
From: E
At the risk of being obvious, are you sure that Nurse Canant was a female?
Laurie, RN, BSN
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Subject: [h-cost] OT: civil war experts
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:52:56 -0500
For
I always thought this site said it all.
http://www.festiveattyre.com/research/lacing/lacing.html
Well, I make a larger distance between the holes, at least 1inch, so if
I started marking the holes from the top to the bottom, in the bottom there
might be an either too small or too large
Thank you Adele!, I will forever hear/read that Braif Fart instead of
Brave Heart, changing my feelings from distaste to glee. Champion!
Laurie
Susan Farmer wrote:
*isgh*
braif fart
Isn't that that ghastly movie with Mel Gibson?
--
Adele de Maisieres
I'd like to recommend the use of blogs for another reason, one that we
recommend to our faculty and students quite often: personal organization.
I don't have a blog or LJ as yet, despite 5 years nagging (erm, I mean
encouraging) from my children, But lately I have considered it so I could
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