Re: [h-cost] victorian gown?

2010-03-09 Thread R Lloyd Mitchell
How about four centuries of costume quotations...not likely Victorian!! Kathleen -Original Message- From: Sent 3/9/2010 6:39:14 PM To: "Historical Costume" Subject: Re: [h-cost] victorian gown?> http://mccallpattern.mccall.com/m6097-products-10908.php?page_id=96 > > Is any part of this d

Re: [h-cost] victorian gown?

2010-03-09 Thread stilskin
> http://mccallpattern.mccall.com/m6097-products-10908.php?page_id=96 > > Is any part of this dress based on anything victorian? Or is this a copy > of a movie costume? > Yeah, sorta, well, kind'a maybe... Victorian was a pretty big slab of years, covering 2-3 generations which equals even more

Re: [h-cost] Dolly Varden, was Victorian gown?

2010-03-09 Thread otsisto
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Re: [h-cost] Dolly Varden, was Victorian gown?

2010-03-09 Thread Rickard, Patty
There's also a trout by that name: In his book, Inland Fishes of California, Peter Moyle recounts a letter sent to him on March 24, 1974 from Mrs Valerie Masson Gomez: My grandmother's family operated a summer resort at Upper Soda Springs on the Sacramento River just north of the present town o

[h-cost] Sale on faux fur

2010-03-09 Thread Joan Jurancich
I got a notice this morning from Fabric.com about the Spring Clearance Sales. Some of the furs look pretty good, especially the ocelot and the lynx. http://www.fabric.com/spring-cleaning-sale-faux-fur.aspx Joan Jurancich joa...@surewest.net ___ h-

[h-cost] Dolly Varden, was Victorian gown?

2010-03-09 Thread Kate Bunting
Message: 11 Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:36:32 -0800 From: K?the Barrows To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] victorian gown? Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > It looks to me like it could be a fancy-dress costume from the 1880s that > was supposed to b

Re: [h-cost] non paned trunkhose pre 1600

2010-03-09 Thread Bambi TBNL
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Re: [h-cost] non paned trunkhose pre 1600

2010-03-09 Thread Bambi TBNL
In the interest of this discussion...I would like to ask a companion question. Although one is only seeing pictures and remnants of the Paned hose with the "slits", all of these are from and depict folks who are in a position to be wearing the top of the line trend, nes pas?the aristocracy/nobil

Re: [h-cost] victorian gown?

2010-03-09 Thread Käthe Barrows
> It looks to me like it could be a fancy-dress costume from the 1880s that > was supposed to be "colonial". I have seen some very interesting 1880s' > era fancy dress costumes; no matter the time period that was supposed to be > represented, they all had the 1880s' wasp-waisted silhouette. D

Re: [h-cost] victorian gown?

2010-03-09 Thread Bambi TBNL
IMO it is a nice fantasy wedding gown somebody came up with withou and real research . it has elements of victorian, (sort of bustle and train) and revolutionary war ( front panel, sort of cascading sleeves and imitation underskirt) and a nice does of imaginationand it in'ts ugly, it just is

[h-cost] victorian gown?

2010-03-09 Thread Dawn
http://mccallpattern.mccall.com/m6097-products-10908.php?page_id=96 Is any part of this dress based on anything victorian? Or is this a copy of a movie costume? Dawn ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailma

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Re: [h-cost] victorian gown?

2010-03-09 Thread Joan Jurancich
At 06:52 AM 3/9/2010, you wrote: http://mccallpattern.mccall.com/m6097-products-10908.php?page_id=96 Is any part of this dress based on anything victorian? Or is this a copy of a movie costume? Dawn It looks to me like it could be a fancy-dress costume from the 1880s that was supposed to

Re: [h-cost] victorian gown?

2010-03-09 Thread Beteena Paradise
I saw that when it first came out and wondered if maybe the Victorian they based it on was dressed for a masquerade party. (if they based it on one, that is) From: Dawn To: Historical Costume Sent: Tue, March 9, 2010 2:52:27 PM Subject: [h-cost] victorian go

Re: [h-cost] non paned trunkhose pre 1600

2010-03-09 Thread Elizabeth Walpole
Thanks for that, it may be a better option than trunkhose with fitted canions. The image he chose is a modern costume http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/739/157308.JPG but given it's going to be worn to a camping event, it's most likely going to be made of cotton drill and I won't actually s