[h-cost] article about Toronto's historical costume technician
A lovely article about costuming for some of Toronto's historical sites. https://www.thestar.com/life/2017/02/25/torontos-official-costume-technician-works-with-the-threads-of-history.html Christine ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Queen Elizabeth's 90th birthday clothing exhibits
(Also originally sent May 30) While I'm on the list and thinking about it, there are also supposed to be some excellent exhibits displaying fashions from (the current) Queen Elizabeth's clothing over the years. Apparently there's a brief period of time when they all overlap, if you plan your trip carefully! For those of us unlucky enough to not be there in person, there are some small but clear photos online. https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/exhibitions/fashioning-a-reign-90-years-of-style-from-the-queens-wardrobe To my eyes, many of the dresses are fairly timeless, but the millinery seems to be much more date-specific. It may just be a matter of eveningwear versus daywear, but I thought the difference was notable. Christine ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Lucille Duff Gordon exhibit in Guelph, ON, Canada
(Retrying - originally sent May 30 but it failed to be delivered) Best website with a couple of pictures: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/guelph-museum-lady-duff-gordon-lucile-1.3566150 Heard about this exhibit on the radio today. There's a longer call-in radio show here: http://www.cbc.ca/ontariotoday/episodes/ "For the love of Lucille" with people calling in to share stories about clothing that was personal to them in some way, and with some additional content about the exhibition, but the 5 minute clip on the first link is probably more informative about the exhibit. Runs May 7 - November 13, 2016 http://guelphmuseums.ca/event/lucile-fashion-titanic-scandal/ Christine ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Patterns available at LACMA
Description from their website: Thomas John Bernard (pictured with assistant curator Clarissa Esguerra), a theatrical costume designer, worked with the curators and conservators of the Costume and Textiles Department at LACMA to draw these patterns approximating the design of garments in our collection. http://www.lacma.org/patterns So far they're showing 4: Man's At-home Robe (Banyan), China, 1700–50, Robe: the Netherlands, 1750–60 Man's Waistcoat, China for the Western market, c. 1740 Man's Waistcoat, France, c. 1750 Man's Coat, France, 1790–95 Anyone know if this is a new thing or has been up for a while, and whether more patterns are going to become available? Christine ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Victorian lace curtains (Re: What costume-related gifts did everyone get?)
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 11:40:40AM -0800, Lavolta Press wrote: > When we bought our San Francisco house over 30 years ago, we papered my > sewing room in J. R. Burrows William Morris wallpaper, still in wonderful > condition and unfaded. I'm really hoping to sell to someone who sees the > wallpaper as an asset rather than something weird to just paint over. It > doesn't conform to the decoration I see in most houses for sale, which tends > to be beige, off-white, and modern. As for our antique light fixtures, > we're moving them all to the new house and putting up cheap replacements for > sale. We've uncovered some paintings on our walls that were buried under wallpaper, and cleaned some others that had always been exposed but become a bit grimy over the years. So we hope for exactly the same thing whenever we sell this house! And we'll be taking almost all our lights with us too. Too bad we can't take the walls... Great to hear that the wallpaper has stood up to the test of time. I'd love to use some, someday. > The tablecloths actually look very good, although they are often heavier > than commercial lace curtains. At $30 or so per tablecloth instead of $250 > or so per curtain, they're a deal. Being next to sunny windows, they'll rot > out and need to be replaced every few years. I've been dealing with that > forever in our San Francisco house. We put window film in our south-facing windows to help with that. Pros and cons, need to think it through thoroughly when considering applying something permanent to original glass, and get a very good quality film. Even so, things fade, so yeah, not worth putting expensive curtains on sunny windows. > When we bought our San Francisco house, we got our hardware from a > Rejuvenation print catalog, but I find their website hard to navigate. We've > bought a lot of light switch plates and other hardware for our Sacramento > house from http://www.houseofantiquehardware.com/, our cabinet hardware > (kitchen, bathroom, and pantry doors) from http://www.rockler.com/ (if you > search on terms like "stickley" and "arts and crafts" there's a lovely > selection), and lots of antique door hardware and more antique light > fixtures from eBay. We buy antiques where we can find them, but it can be > hard to get certain things as antiques when you want them. And we got some > of our switch plates from this site: > http://jamesmattson.com/collections/switchplates-bungalow-rose Thank you. I only had the first link (and apparently filed in my bookmarks before I had the separate "hardware" section so have fixed that); glad to have the others. (btw, Rejuvenation still has print catalogues if you ask.) Good luck with the move and renovations. Christine ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Victorian lace curtains (Re: What costume-related gifts did everyone get?)
On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 10:12:19AM -0800, Lavolta Press wrote: > In terms of what I'm doing, right now it's making drapes. Or more like, buy > curtain rods, return half of them because they're theoretically Arts & > Crafts style but they're ugly, buy more rods. Buy brass electrical plates, > return half of them because they are a lovely Art Nouveau style but > oversized so would overlap the baseboards, buy smaller ones. Order swatches > for curtain material, half haven't arrived because the fabric store owners > are busy this season. Meanwhile, kitchen contractor goes on vacation for two > weeks. We won't actually be moving to Sacramento till March at this rate. > > On the bright side, I found out that if you want more or less Victorian lace > drapes (I'm not claiming 100% accuracy), try those Quaker Lace brand > tablecloths that are all over eBay and Etsy every day, often at low prices. > You can easily get them in 100% cotton. Just sew on curtain rings. Many of > the expensive repro Victorian curtains actually look like tablecloths, with > a large central motif and borders all around. Matching the shade of > off-white for several windows in a room is a trick but can be done. I haven't ordered anything from him, but he's well known in social dance circles so some of you may know him too: http://www.burrows.com/ He's done work at the MFA in Boston, tv shows, the list goes on. Beautiful photos on the website and facebook... I don't know my Victorian lace curtains, but would be willing to bet these aren't the tablecloth variety. Fran, I expect you know about them already, but in case not, Rejuvenation and Lee Valley both sell hardware that might be of interest. Christine ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
