Re: [h-cost] False Eyelashes

I forgot to mention the film was released in 1930. Penny Ladnier, owner The Costume Gallery Websites www.costumegallery.com 15 websites of fashion, costume, and textile history FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Costume-Gallery-Websites/107498415961579

Re: [h-cost] Wooden busk for Regency corset

I did a 20 page paper on busks, primarily 16th c-18th ones, some years back and then made my own Elizabethan busk covering. Woods cited in my sources include ash (extant examples), juniper (referred in a 16th c poem). Most museums dont identify the exact woods in their artifacts. As Regency

Re: [h-cost] Wooden busk for Regency corset

Since I was pressed for cash, I made my busk from two Sherwin William paint stirrers and wrapped them in muslin. Though Home Depot's stirrers were nicer and I could have used just one of them, the Sherwin William's stirrers were there requisite 14 inches long. And they were free... The busk came