Re: [h-cost] Gen Con in Indy (was: Costume College)
Hve fun at College, ladies! Gen Con happens the week after. Is anyone going besides Dawn I? --cin I'm going -- running 5 games, plus probably some demos over at the Cryptic Studios/Hero Games booth. No idea if I'll have time to get together with anyone. With the convention center remodeling, my games are scattered around downtown Indy. And if I'm not on demo duty, I may head back to the hotel after my games. Due to things hitting the proverbial fan, I'm staying out by the airport and driving in each day; if I can't get downtown early enough for a cheap parking spot I'll want to get out of the expensive one ASAP. Leah Internet Security Software - Click here. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3mEWrj1Ut9oubqUuEizm21UxqRaiyrZIfL1UY5ZvhXdjsiIo/ ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Looking for a handweaver
Is there a handweaver on the list who works in linen or cotton? If so, would you mind contacting me off-list? I may want to commission a small piece from you, but have some questions first. Leah Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Re: Tudors Sweating Sickness (OT)
Interesting. My daughter mentioned malaria but I told her it couldn't be that because it's tropical. Cholera was mentioned as well. I was thinking along the lines of the horrible influenza in the U.S. in 19...teens that killed so many. Wasn't it called the Spanish Influenza? I've seen references to malaria in England in Victorian times, but don't have the books handy right now. And yes, the 1918 pandemic was known as the Spanish Flu (despite starting out in Kansas, USA). Sweating sickness doesn't quite match the 1918 symptoms ... but flu viruses are so mutable, you really can't go by that. Costume content, costume content, there's gotta be some around here ... America's Forgotten Pandemic has several references (and photos) of people wearing gauze masks to protect themselves from the flu. Anyone ever do a Costume Con historical masquerade entry from 1918 with flu masks? (It'll be Milwaukee before I can go again, but I'm trying to decide on an entry early.) Leah ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Re: Kinko's Ignorance
We don't go in there anymore--we go to a small but competent copy center owned by local people who DO understand fair use. So I can't tell you if my local Kinko's has people patrolling. But I'd suspect that, patrols or not, if they happened to notice someone copying out of a magazine or other bound object they'd step in. I imagine other people have more extensive experience with Kinko's and can comment more definitively. I've needed to photocopy character sheets for convention games out of the book(s) I'm demoing, have done this on several occasions, and have never been chased down by Kinko's employees. Of course, the closest one to my job is always busy, I might be sneaking under the radar simply by not chasing down the employees myself with questions. Leah ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmakers dummy wearing?
Almost missed this thread -- if the digest topic list is over 50% copyright argument, it's been deleted unread. I'm experimenting with the Tibetan Panel Coat pattern, getting it up to my size. After that, it'll be mainly research for something I want to take to Costume Con in 2010. I don't know yet if I can wear it myself or if I'll have to find a male volunteer, either way I want lots of lead time. (I never wear makeup if I can help it, so making myself up to look like a guy should take 6 months experimentation all by itself. And if I'm mailing fitting muslins to the model ) I'm also trying to get the stash better organized. It's been getting a boost recently from a fabric store going-out-of-business sale. Leah ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Re: Questions: Tibetan Panel Coat
Since I remember that you're rather shortwaisted, I'd adjust to shorten the pattern at the waist hip. Bring the indicated W H marks up to match yours. You may also need to make adjustment at the neck, bustline across the shoulder since IIRC you're bustier than the typical B or C cup Folkwear designs for. No waist/hip marks on my patterns -- either I got a misprinted copy or Folkwear is aiming this pattern at the more experienced sewers. I see mockups in my future. Fortunately I got two large boxes of mockup fabric for my birthday. I have an occasionally-updated LiveJournal. As I work out the alterations (I also have to upsize this pattern), would it be useful to anyone if I put the alteration notes up there? Have fun at GenCon, I'm missing this year. So am I -- I can only afford (in money and vacation time) one big trip per year, and Costume Con was in driving range. Leah ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Re: Hand Drycleaning
With regular dry cleaning they put the garment or textile into a machine and agitate it, which stresses it much more than hand dry cleaning, which seems similar to flat washing where you sponge the soap through the cloth. And given the government restrictions on dry cleaning solvent, I think you're going to have problems finding someone who can do this, ESPECIALLY in California. The only thing I can think of would be to contact some of the industry associations (such as the International Fabricare Institute, http://www.ifi.org/) and see if they have anyone they can recommend. Or see if there's someone using alternative solvents in your area -- I believe the liquid CO2 method requires a pressurized machine, so wouldn't work for you, but I don't know about Rynex or GreenEarth. Leah ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] book review wanted: Shaker Textile Arts
I'm looking for information on Shaker clothing, ideally around the time of the Great Awakening (1800-1830). I was searching Amazon and found the book Shaker Textile Arts, by Beverly Gordon. It looks like it will have the information I need, but it's also $30 -- does anyone have this book? Is it worth the money? Leah ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Re: 1960s-70s School Dress Codes
My students have been asking some really good questions. These questions I only know the answers from personal experience. I lived in Mississippi at the time and do not know if we were really far behind fashion or not. If you answer these questions, please let me know your location and the app. year you remember these fashions were worn to public elementary through high school: 1. Mini-skirts: Girl's skirt lengths were measured 2. Girls' pants: When were girls' allowed to wear pants to school. Pants-suits, hiphuggers? 3. Boys' Hair: Allowed to wear long hair 4. Boy's mustaches: When allowed (Sorry for the lag, just got home.) Omaha, NE. 1) I don't recall measurements, and one year in JROTC the skirt I was issued as part of my uniform was really short (I'd say mid-thigh, going just off memory). This would probably have been fall 1977-spring 1978. IIRC, there was a really large hem in the skirt, so apparently the last girl to wear it had hemmed it up. I never got in trouble for wearing it, and had the previous girl gotten in trouble I suspect she would have been made to let the hem back out. I've never been a fan of miniskirts even before the weight went on, so I can't be any more precise than that. 2) I remember my grandmother making what she always called Kabuki pants for me, and I know I could wear those to school by 6th grade or so. They were basically a wrap pant with _lots_ of overlap and an elastic waistband. Let's see ... that would have been around 1973-74. Before then, I seem to recall skirts or dresses being the rule unless you were in gym class. In 7th grade home ec (around 1974-75), we could choose to make shorts as part of the sewing section. I was on the precision drill team in high school JROTC, and we wore maroon polyester jumpsuits for some of the drill competitions (not issued, though I think we were told which pattern to buy). I can't answer 3 or 4 -- I have one brother, but he was in JROTC as well so had to stay clean-shaven and short-haired. My only interest in other boys when I was in school had to do with the odds they would beat me up or steal from me. Leah ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Re: minimum yardage for 14/15th century kirtle
OK I've gone all waffly in this post but the summary is I've got 3 3/4 yds of fabric and I need a 15th century kirtle either with short sleeves do you think it's plausible either with or without piecing, opinions and shared experiences are welcome. Not the century you're looking at, but I just squeezed an Elizabethan kirtle out of one pair of tab-top drapes that the previous owner of my mother and stepfather's townhome left behind. I didn't measure them before cutting, but I'd guess they were about 6 feet long (not counting the silly-looking fake-smocked band across the top) and maybe 50-60 inches wide. I'm a 22-24 in Margo's patterns for most measurements, though I had to shorten everything (only 5'2). Leah ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Re: Hair color ; FREE TUDORS ONLINE V.I.P.SCREENING
And, in order for a child to have red hair, she/he must get the recessive gene from both parents. It is interesting to note in the drawing of Anne by Holbein, there is a bit of color--her hair, which he colored a soft red. As red hair is a recessive, though, it won't necessarily show up in the parents' hair colors. My brother is a true redhead (or was, he's going silver/gray now), but both our parents are shades of brunette. To drag this back on topic -- I'm dial-up, so I haven't even tried these links. I've got to admit that what I've seen on this and other lists isn't encouraging me to talk some of my friends into sharing the high-speed and watching this show. Is there anything worthwhile besides the male eyecandy? Leah ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Blue on Judith
On another list I am on, a topic coming up regarding the relevance the colour blue is to Jewish women came up, relative to the Book of Judith and all the spin off paintings it has created particularly in Italian ren paintings. Wow! This stirred up a really vague memory of an article I read, probably 15 years ago about a special blue dye--if memory serves, it came from the Mediterranean, and was, similar to Tyrian purple, a shell-fish based vat dye. And it was used by the Hebrews and, again if I'm remembering right, had a ritual significance. I was channel-skimming at a friend's this past weekend, and caught part of a show called Naked Archaologist that was discussing a snail-based blue dye. In the section I saw, the show host was talking with someone who had been working on reconstructing the dye recipe based on some comments in the Talmud (or the commentaries on the Talmud, I'm not sure which). I think this show was either on History International or one of the Discovery Channel spin-offs. If it's History International, odds are it'll be rerun. I'll check next week while cat-sitting and see if I can find it again. Leah ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] OT: custom boots
(I'll be posting this to a couple lists, sorry if you get multiples.) A friend of mine has wanted a pair of custom boots for years, and things are finally coming together for her to order a pair. Does anyone have recommendations (or, possibly more important, warnings) on someone who could make a pair of high leather boots? Also, how hard is it to measure someone for something like this? If she has to fly to the bootmaker to get the measurements and/or fitting done, well, that's coming out of the boot budget. Feel free to reply off-list. Leah ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] A question about when (was Bad historical costumemovies)
Hollywood and History mention this phenomenon. Hair is almost always wrong, again most commonly upon the female lead. The reasons for this are also similiar to the reasons given for costumes, including the insistance of the Actors themselves. Not a historical show, but back when the original Star Trek was going into initial production the male cast members announced they were NOT going to have their hair restyled to something futuristic -- the final compromise was to reshape their sideburns. Leah ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Re: Going to GenCon
Dawn I were wondering if anyone else on h-costume is going to GenCon. We *cant* be the only gamer-costumers around. There's LARPs historical fantasy and a costume contest to see. --cin Going, but won't have time for much sightseeing -- I'm signed up to run 32 hours of games as part of the Hero Games demo team. (This is of course assuming the on staff at GenCon ever get my GM badge to me. Less than two weeks, people ) Leah ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Help identifying something
Is anyone familiar with this painting: http://www.joslyn.org/permcol/euro/pages/veronese.html or have access to a larger or more detailed image? I am trying to identify what that is dangling under her left arm. My initial guess is part of a chemise, since she appears to have shrugged off a loose gown and there is no other layer in site. Also, other portraits of Venus around this time tend to have a chemise lying around if she is nude :). Do you need this information in a hurry? I can run down to the Joslyn and look at the painting ... but between overtime at work and helping out a friend whose mother just died, it ain't gonna be this week. Leah ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] abuse of fabrics (aka care and washing)
One of the things I learned in my studies was that legally, clothing manufacturers have to put a care label on their garments, and they have to test the garment in what ever method they recommend. Not that all manufacturer's actually _test_ the garments ... I think Tommy Hilfiger still holds the record for biggest fine from the FTC for inaccurate care labels. There's a fashion boutique that opened recently in Omaha that is already notorious among the local dry cleaners; the company I work for has told everyone to refuse garments from them because they cannot be dry cleaned regardless of the care tag. For *most* garments, regardless of fiber content, the easiest and cheapest route is to label the garment Dry Clean Only. This way they are not responsible for the poor results if the garment is cleaned some other way, and they have to spend very little money researching other cleaning methods. I've always suspected Do Not Wash, Do Not Dry Clean, Spot Clean Only was a synonym for We Couldn't Be Bothered To Test This But Don't Want To Be Held Responsible. Leah ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Another period program on tv
OPINION ALERT! Well, I watched it tonight - I thought the women's costuming was 10x worse than the men's (as usual) with rather odd headdresses in particular. In my opinion it greatly resembled the 19th century view of the 16th century - it was to Henry and his wives what many in the 19th century thought of poor Mary Queen of Scots and the evil Queen Elizabeth - their ideas (not mine). I found it to be rather tabloid feeling in its approach to the entire thing, and while strictly correct in facts, attributed a lot of emotions that I think they would be hard pressed to document. Catherine of Aragon came across as the wronged noble, almost saintly queen, and they stated outright that Henry went mad as he got older! They aren't the only one, I've got a book that proves Henry was suffering from neurosyphilis* by the time he decided to, er, break up with Anne. It's pretty flimsy evidence (supposedly Elizabeth's line about being a barren stock after James was born meant she didn't menstruate, so obviously she was suffering from inherited syphilis), only remotely plausible because Henry wasn't exactly faithful to his spouses at a time when there wasn't any way to prevent STDs. Leah *Or tertiary syphilis, I've seen both terms -- what happens when the syphilis spirochete starts damaging your brain. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Cheap? wool and linen (off-list)
also, this is a bit of a boast, and I will not be able to give the name of the store (i am going to go back on sat, and i just know where it is) but I found a bunch of 60 inch wide linen in fairly light weights for 3.50 (plus 8 5/8th % sales tax). I think I am going to buy a variity about $400 snip I cant remember all the colors, but if anyone wants to pay me for shipping, i would be willing to look for thier color. jordana If they've got a navy blue linen, I'd be interested in up to 10 yards. Do you have a PayPal account, or would you want a check sent? (With my work schedule, no one would be at home for a COD delivery.) Leah [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
