I have the pattern for it here - its an out of date one I used to make
a wedding dress from some years ago - McCalls 3861..
Thanks! That does look very close. I'll have to troll the thrift stores
and see if one turns up.
Denise
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Here's one for sale...
http://www.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=3403721
Happy New Year Everyone,
Chris
--- On Thu, 1/1/09, Land of Oz lando...@netins.net wrote:
From: Land of Oz lando...@netins.net
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Is it out on video yet? I could capture images - I can rent it from netflix.
BTW - where are you in Iowa - I was born and raised (for awhile) in Iowa City.
Sg
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To: h-cost...@indra.com
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:27:54 -0600
Subject: [h-cost] Movie costumes
Any
It came out on DVD at the beginning of December. Lovely dress, too.
MaggiRos
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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008
Is it out on video yet? I could capture images - I can rent it from
netflix. BTW - where are you in Iowa - I was born and raised (for awhile)
in Iowa City.
Sg
Yes, we got it for Christmas. My computer doesn't play dvds so that option
is out for me. It's a pretty good movie and does
I have the pattern for it here - its an out of date one I used to make
a wedding dress from some years ago - McCalls 3861..
Bye for now,
Aylwen Gardiner-Garden
Earthly Delights Historic Dance Academy
music ~ dancing ~ sewing ~ patterns ~ books
1480s - 1890s : Renaissance to Victorian
Jane Austen
Land of Oz wrote:
the blue farewell dress worn by Susan
Any tips on a photo...
couple of rough screen shots--none of the back, but it is shaped as same
as the front...
- Hope
P.S. I don't remember if this list takes attachments. I can post them
somewhere if not.
Have not seen the movie so hope these help
http://costumes.narniaweb.com/
http://tinyurl.com/7acy4u
http://tinyurl.com/9l424o
My favorite site for Movie Costumes
http://www.costumersguide.com/costume_research.shtml
De
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I'm sure those of you who make costumes for
Speaking of ancient costume history, are any of you expert in the
field of Mesopotamian costume? I'm wondering what else might have been
dug up in that area since I studied costume history. Anyone know any
good books on the subject?
Sylrog
Not so much costume as cooking... but the
Yep, incredibly cool. I made a large soft sculture doll that wears infant
size clothing. When you start the doll you don't know the sex until it just
takes on its own as it is finished. Can't say going to make a girl or boy
because what you get is what you get just like real life.
On Thursday 04 January 2007 1:11 am, Penny Ladnier wrote:
Okay, I caught up on the topic... I'm sorry for my stupid question.
I am wondering if these Egyptian dresses that were found in the 1920s were
what made beaded dresses in the 1920s so fashionable. From my research,
they appear in
I know it's naalbinding/nalbinding but did not know what the Coptics called
it so I did not want to call it naalbinding. I guess I could have said a
form of needle knitting that the Scandinavians refer to as naalbinding :)
De
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The Coptic's had a form of needle
At 12:04 PM 1/2/2007, you wrote:
The Coptic's had a form of needle knitting and to my understanding a form of
macramé' was known in Egypt. They also knew how to dye their fabrics.
This is a start.
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/fabrics.htm
the same reaction to peasants in burlap as you do to an Egyptian queen
wearing clothing centuries, if not actual millenia, out of date.
--Sue
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Subject: Re: [h-cost] movie costumes
In a message dated 1/2/2007 3:09:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What makes you think that they were so primitive as to not know how to dye
fabrics?
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I don't think that is what the poster meant. I think it was a reference to
all the white
On Jan 2, 2007, at 5:00 AM, Sue Clemenger wrote:
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In the one about Joseph, Potiphar and his wife look fantastic! If I
remembershe
: otsisto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 1:04 PM
Subject: RE: [h-cost] movie costumes
The Coptic's had a form of needle knitting and to my understanding a form
of
macramé' was known in Egypt. They also knew how to dye their fabrics
Nalbinding, the sort that looks like crossed-loop
knitting, can be told from knitting by the way it
increases and decreases.
Dorothy Burnham wrote an excellent article where she
analyzed 'ancient Egyptian knitting' and traced the
thread path to prove all extant pieces she analyzed to
be
: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] movie costumes
Not if what she was wearing was obviously knitted. That's a humongous
boo-boo, right there.
The Coptic people did a thing that looked a lot like knitting. Is this
movie example something so far off
When did this evidence about Egyptian beaded net dresses surface? I
never heard of it before nor is it in my old costume history books.
It's been decades since I studied the history of costume, but since I'm
going to be teaching it this January I'd really like to keep up on
recent
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On Jan 2, 2007, at 5:00 AM, Sue Clemenger wrote:
Not if what she was wearing was obviously knitted. That's a humongous
boo-boo, right there. Also, the color
There is one at the MFA in Boston, it was conserved several years ago,
when I worked there or just before. I might have a picture somewhere
in an old bulletin. It was beautiful beads in blues mostly as I
recall.
Katy
On 1/3/07, Sylvia Rognstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When did this evidence
In a message dated 1/3/2007 10:16:21 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A beaded/netted overgown? How cool is that? ;o)
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I thought so. I mean it's better than Liz Taylor or Claudette Colbert
[though their costumes for their Cleopatras have their own
Mine was a simple question. How I read your question, it seemed to imply
that you did not think that they were capable of dyeing fabric during that
era, thus it seemed to me to imply primitive. Perhaps I should have used the
word ignorant or something better to ask why you thought the Egyptians
Nice!
short version of url
http://tinyurl.com/ydjm4p
De
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This might help...
http://www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk/detail/details/index_no_login.php?objectid=UC177
43accesscheck=%2Fdetail%2Fdetails%2Findex.php
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. It's about 2/3 of the way down the
page. (The doll is about 10 tall.)
Heather
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On Jan 2, 2007
On Jan 3, 2007, at 7:16 AM, Sylvia Rognstad wrote:
When did this evidence about Egyptian beaded net dresses surface?
I never heard of it before nor is it in my old costume history
books. It's been decades since I studied the history of costume,
but since I'm going to be teaching it this
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 10:16 am, Sylvia Rognstad wrote:
When did this evidence about Egyptian beaded net dresses surface? I
never heard of it before nor is it in my old costume history books.
It's been decades since I studied the history of costume, but since I'm
going to be teaching it
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 9:34 pm, Heather Rose Jones wrote:
On Jan 3, 2007, at 7:24 AM, Sue Clemenger wrote:
A beaded/netted overgown? How cool is that? ;o) I hadn't heard of that
intriguing garment, so thanks to you and the other poster who
mentioned it.
I can see now why the
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 10:19 pm, Sylvia Rognstad wrote:
Funny you should mention that book. I just so happen to have made a
photocopy on it in its entirety when I ran across it for the first time
a few years ago in a small town library. Since it was written in 1920,
I've wondered ever
and Palestine were also a part of Mesopotamia. Textiles, if they survived, I
would bet are at Cambridge. :)
Chiara
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From: Catherine Olanich Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost
Katy,
I am coming in late on the topic. Is this a 1920s Egyptian style beaded
gown? Those were fashionable then. I haven't seen an ancient Egyptian
beaded dress.
I couldn't get this webpage link to work:
http://www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/sexuality.html
Penny Ladnier,
Okay, I caught up on the topic... I'm sorry for my stupid question.
I am wondering if these Egyptian dresses that were found in the 1920s were
what made beaded dresses in the 1920s so fashionable. From my research,
they appear in fashion around the same time as the dates of the beaded
: Monday, January 01, 2007 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] movie costumes
In the one about Joseph, Potiphar and his wife look fantastic! If I
remembershe was in a sheer coral red crinkled gauze shift to her feet
that had a
turquoise knitted over dress, very open in its working, that made
In a message dated 1/2/2007 7:52:42 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Not if what she was wearing was obviously knitted. That's a humongous
boo-boo, right there.
Well it may have been crocheted...or just knotted in some waybut you get
Isn't Potiphar's wife traditionally believed to have been named Zuleika?
Lauren M. Walker
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On Jan 2, 2007, at 12:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 1/2/2007 7:52:42 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Not if what she was wearing was
Not if what she was wearing was obviously knitted. That's a humongous
boo-boo, right there.
The Coptic people did a thing that looked a lot like knitting. Is this
movie example something so far off?
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The Coptic's had a form of needle knitting and to my understanding a form of
macramé' was known in Egypt. They also knew how to dye their fabrics.
This is a start.
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/fabrics.htm
http://africanhistory.about.com/od/hieroglyphs/a/ColorTech.htm
What makes you
The Coptic's had a form of needle knitting and to my understanding a form of
macramé' was known in Egypt.
It's called naalbinding, and is almost identical to knitting except that
it's done with a threaded needle. The thread follows almost the same
path as it does in knitting, except that the
In a message dated 1/1/2007 5:43:47 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From
the stills, it looked like more costume horror, though of the usual earnest
thick weave, lots of knotted rags, and seams on the outside of the garment
sort.
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