Well, if someone is PA Dutch or from Western PA or from South Philadelphia,
you should be able to tell, youse guys!
KY and TN sound very different from TX.
Candace Perry
Bally, PA
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Trust an American not to know the difference between Yorkshire and Cockney
accents! I believe Bernard Cornwell originally created Sharpe as a Londoner,
but Sean Bean comes from Sheffield.
Can you tell the difference between a Michigan accent and a Pennsylvania
accent?
How about Kentucky and
Acrylic will make it stiff.
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I have a length of silk taffeta that has an embroidery pattern that is
invokative of an Elizabethan pattern, except that it is all off-white
on off-white. I would like to add color to the flowers without
embroidering them all.
So I was
I went and checked with my husband about the original books, I assume
that's what the writer was referring to. But it would be worrying if
people then listened to Sean Bean's accent and thought Ah, that's what
Cockney is!
Jean
Kate M Bunting wrote:
Trust an American not to know the
well, the Yunzers of Pittsburg probably would!
Kathleen
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From: Candace Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] [ h-cost]Making history hip
Well, if someone is PA Dutch or from
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Dianne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't imagine that watercolors or oils would work well at all.
I would either use acrylic, heavily thinned with a textile medium, or bite
the bullet and buy silk paints from Dharma.
Dianne
Thanks to all that have
Or from Pittsburgh, y'uns.
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Subject: Re: [h-cost] [ h-cost]Making history hip
Well, if someone is PA Dutch or from Western PA or
In a message dated 4/1/2008 9:42:06 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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Anyway, it would seem like the oil paint would
have been what was used to permanently mark fabric. I have only just
begun working with oil paints myself, so I don't know how they handle
in this case,
Sometimes it is difficult to pick up accents and how people will react.
My Dad was born and raised in New York State. The accent there is quite
different than the Bronx, for example. Twenty years in the Air Force and
thirty years in Nebraska erased his NYS accent--he and two of his
sisters sounded
Pierre Sandy Pettinger wrote:
Hello, all!
Has anyone been watching the HBO series, John Adams? What is your
general impression of:
Costumes - both the principal characters and the general
populace/servants/etc.?
I've seen the first two parts. I'm no expert on the period but it's
obvious
Regionalisms are just as much fun as accents - the Dictionary of
American Regional English (DARE project) is very compelling.
Patty
What is interesting is that language experts are making a lot of
discoveries of simularities between some area accents in Britain and
some American accents, usually
--
Dianne wrote:
Can you tell the difference between a Michigan accent and a Pennsylvania
accent?
How about Kentucky and Texas?
OK, point taken!
and Jean Waddie wrote:
I went and checked with my husband about the original books, I assume
that's what the writer
And Kentucky is different than Tennessee. :) For the most part, the
same is said about every state/region.
Sarah K
Wisconsin (but have been asked on a number of occasions if I were from
Canada!)
Well, if someone is PA Dutch or from Western PA or from South
Philadelphia,
you should be
In a message dated 4/1/2008 11:29:33 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
All the costumes are unnaturally drab and
dull, and very plain. There's no embroidery, no color, and no texture to
anything.
***
This may be a reaction to Gilbert Stuart and the
I haven't watched the series, so I have no business replying most likely,
but if you look at portraits of John he was pretty conservative. I think
there's a famous Copley portrait (please correct me if I'm wrong) of the
couple and they are quite plain as it were. They weren't like the
It could have been a way to show the differences between patriotic
Americans versus Tories, British and French to the audience,(serious
Americans vs frivolous everyone else) even though this probably didn't
exist. Could also have been a cost-cutting measure as well as an
artistic decision, because
Doesn't the oil in the paint spread, making an oil spot? I've never used
oils, as in theatre we can't have flammable paints. Before acrylics, we used
to make our own paint, using hoof-and-horn glue. We called it casein paint.
You mixed the ground up stuff (hooves and horns, apparently) up with
There's an island off the Carolina coast, which, until they got a bridge and
satellite TV, had an almost perfect version of a 16th century eastern
English accent, which has died out/changed in England.
My mom is frequently asked if she is from New York, but she is a native San
Franciscan. The
When they showed the first continental congress, there was a bit more
variety of costume. People from the south, like Jefferson, were
wearing silk and colors, I think Jefferson's coat was lavender. They
were definitely more dandified than the Boston delegation. Though
still rather plain.
Katy
In a message dated 4/1/2008 5:32:33 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There's an island off the Carolina coast, which, until they got a bridge and
satellite TV, had an almost perfect version of a 16th century eastern
English accent
**
Ocracoke Island
As probably the closest one to the Con (it's 2miles from my house) I
thought I'd start the discussion. Who's going? Should we meet for tea
photo ops? Shall we wear our Scarlet Letters?
--cin
Cynthia Barnes
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I'm not sure who put in that posting, but I can't get the website to open. Does
anyone know anything about the book?
Thanks
Carol
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You rock. That's why Blockbuster's
Most versions I have heard of this refer to Tangiers Island, which is off
of Virginia not the Carolinas, I have heard references to the Carolinas and
even the Ozarks! Tangiers is still accessible only by ferry. Of course
none of the various places in America I have heard touted as having a
Hi, Cin, I'm going. What's this about scarlet letters?
Sharon Collier
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
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Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 4:17 PM
To: h-cost
Subject: [h-cost] H-costumers at CostumeCon
As probably the closest one to the Con
Hi all, my friend Camilla Luise Dahl who is a costume historian in Denmark,
pointed me to their latest project. Sorry for the cross posts, but I wanted to
get to as many folks as I could.
Very cool headdresses!! As Camilla and I spoke last night, they will really
make you wonder why the
Hello, I bought material to make my first bustle dress, I am going to
try and emulate a gown I have in a La Mode Parisiennes fashion plate
from 1880 with consideration of Edna Pontellier's white cotton ensemble
at the beginning of Grand Isle.
What I am trying to get down is how to do knife
Me too and I'm just as curious.
Margaret Decker
Hi, Cin, I'm going. What's this about scarlet letters?
Sharon Collier
As probably the closest one to the Con (it's 2miles from my house) I
thought
I'd start the discussion. Who's going? Should we meet for tea photo ops?
Shall we wear
I've lived in Nebraska all my life, but I seem to have a talent for
language - I've managed to fool people (not native to the described
areas) that I'm from New York City/Brooklyn and also from the U.
K. If I talk to someone for more than a few minutes, I start to pick
up their accent.
Sandy
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