Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing?

2009-02-22 Thread Catherine Olanich Raymond
On Sunday 22 February 2009 10:33:02 pm Pixel, Goddess and Queen wrote: > The dressmaker's project bag alternates between a linen gown (early 13th > c.) in this amazingly delicious sage green handkerchief linen that I am > still occasionally kicking myself for not buying the whole bolt of, and > the

Re: [h-cost] What period/country etc is this tunic?

2009-02-22 Thread Pixel, Goddess and Queen
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, Heather Rose Jones wrote: On Feb 21, 2009, at 7:17 PM, Pixel, Goddess and Queen wrote: I'd actually say it was SCA Generic Early Period, myself, since it looks like he's wearing front-lacing suede boots. :-) I was going to say something similar but hesitated lest it

Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing?

2009-02-22 Thread Pixel, Goddess and Queen
The dressmaker's project bag alternates between a linen gown (early 13th c.) in this amazingly delicious sage green handkerchief linen that I am still occasionally kicking myself for not buying the whole bolt of, and the neckline embroidery (white silk on dark blue linen) for an in-progress m

Re: [h-cost] Gore training: was: What period/country etc is this tunic?

2009-02-22 Thread Maggie
It means, Just leave out the gores. MaggiRos Maggie Secara ~A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603 ISBN 978-0-9818401-0-9 Available at http://elizabethan.org/compendium/paperback.html See our gallery at http://www.zazzle.com/popinjaypress On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Saragrace Knauf

Re: [h-cost] What period/country etc is this tunic?

2009-02-22 Thread Saragrace Knauf
No problem - I ended up going back to some of my own research which meshes very nicely with some of the stuff in the links you sent. Sg > Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:54:17 -0800 > From: reginalaws...@gmail.com > To: h-costume@mail.indra.com > Subject: Re: [h-cost] What period/country etc is this

Re: [h-cost] What period/country etc is this tunic?

2009-02-22 Thread Regina Voorhes
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be snarky. I hit send before I realized I didn't finish the thought. The combo of garments suggests a generic medieval feel. There is a great resource of extant garments at http://www.kostym.cz/. I have to work up a outfit for my guy soon, and I will be using this s

Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing?

2009-02-22 Thread Margo Anderson
Catherine Howard is wearing an Elizabethan loose gown with the sleeves ripped out, and the scalloped cuff from one of the sleeves pinned into place as a shoulder wing. Margo ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/