Look at Target. The camis with the shelf bras have adjustable straps.
pixel/jen
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The bank called. Your reality check bounced.
On Tue, 4 Feb 2014, Purple Kat wrote:
Jumping in here - just to make a comment:
I on the other hand are looking for camis with a 'shelf'.
My big problem is
On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, Patricia Dunham wrote:
Braun et Schneider is really Victorian, the plates you mention are available
on-line at http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/COSTUME4_INDEX.HTML
Personally, I see a short length of decorated, CENTERED opening at the top neck. I do not
get any impression
So I have this friend who said if you make it for me I will wear it and
I want to make this outer garment:
http://diglit.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg848/0141?sid=8d563ad12e918dcb1cd18fb352e23e86
I am having a disagreement with my other half about how to interpret it,
though. It's the
I made a 14th c. hood for a friend, with these nifty cast buttons (made by
someone else and painted by me) and there will be photos eventually, but I
didn't *get* any costume goodies. Then again, we didn't really exchange
gifts this year anyway. I did finally find fabric for the lining for my
locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making (or
re-making) something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing
today?
At the moment I am knitting what will hopefully soon be a finished moebius
scarf for my father's girlfriend, and then I an hoping to get Dad a hat
done
I wash my wool and silk delicates with either Orvus or shampoo, my plant
fiber delicates with regular laundry detergent or whatever soap product
is to hand, and the wools and silks get a glug of vinegar in the rinse
water as well.
Jen
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Lavolta Press wrote:
What's
The Schuette embroidery book is another high-demand one, a copy runs
around $200 as well.
Jen
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Sharon Zakhour wrote:
I don't have a full catalog, but I have some nice books that have been barely
used. I haven't researched/figured out prices yet. But here are some:
Yes, yes, and yes. I'm teaching. ;-)
jen/pixel/margaret
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Simone Bryan wrote:
Since I am not going to Costume College for the first time in like 12
years, because I was going to Pennsic, however? The prices on airfare has
made that almost impossible
So in November? In
This is what I do. Our city softens the water at the plant, so if I use
tap water in the iron it gets clogged with deposits, and I am far too
disorganized to remember to get distilled water all the time. Although I
did have to get another spritz bottle for cat discipline when my husband
Her mother was Elisabeth/Beatrice of Swabia, d. 1235. The museum's website
says she died a few days before her mother, which suggests complications
due to childbirth. I found a Wikipedia entry that says she died in
infancy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_of_Swabia so you're
probably
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011, Joan Jurancich wrote:
The article will be available on-line tomorrow (Thursday, Dec. 29). It's on
the front page of the Datebook section of today's San Francisco Chronicle. I
want one 8-). Exercise on a stationary bicycle plus getting my wool carded,
a double-plus!
A friend puts all her projects in large zip-closure plastic bags. Hefty
makes a 2.5 gal one, although there is no way to easily hang one without
making a hole in the bag. Ziploc makes what they call Big Bags in three
sizes, all of which have handles which could be used to hang the bag. The
A green wool 13th c. gown for this Saturday (the trim is red wool with
oval blue agates surrounded by pearls, there will eventually be garnets
also surrounded by pearls), and then I have to clean the sewing room so I
can see the floor. :-)
After that I have a new winter coat for me, which
Hello the list!
I recently finished a garment which can best be described as the bastard
offspring of a giermak and a kontusz (15th-16th c. Polish). I think it is
nifty and I want to make more. And I like the look of metallic braid, so
I would like to continue to use it for the decoration on
Does anyone ELSE (i.e., someone who is not me and thus might have a
spare minute at home sometime before Tuesday) have a copy of the Maureen
Fennell Mazzaoui book The Italian Cotton Industry in the Later Middle
Ages, 1100-1600. I would hazard a guess that it's mentioned in there.
My consort and I made our best interpretation of both scholar's robes and
master's robes for our elevation (SCA) back in January. Academic dress and
clerical dress start out as pretty much the same thing and then there is a
bit of a divergence--you start seeing physicians and other learned
[I am procrastinating, yes I am!]
I'm in the process of attempting to restore some modicum of order to the
office (where the cutting table lives) and the sewing room (where
everything else lives) and since it doesn't require a great deal of
brainpower my brain has been wandering about
Hello the list!
The theme of Convergence (July, Twin Cities) this year is steampunk. And
for some reason I have not yet figured out, I decided that my husband
needs to have this costume:
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20041220
I can find patterns. That's not the problem. My
I've been putting CF and CB gores in my gowns for years as well, and I
have never had problems with them catching between my legs. Indeed, if the
gown doesn't have a CF gore, that's when it causes problems. Remember
that medieval shoes were different from modern shoes, so medieval people
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, Chris Laning wrote:
I think the other major distinguishing characteristic of what we call denim
is that it has colored threads in one direction and white threads in the
other. Offhand I don't know which is warp and which is weft, though. Anyone?
And of course
, November 4, 2010 8:46 am, Pixel, Goddess and Queen wrote:
Apologies for people who aren't interested in fur--it's one of my hot
buttons. ;-)
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, monica spence wrote:
Hi Michelle,
Here's my best guess
much trimming
Zibellini!! There's an article about them in MCAT 2
[I teach a class in the SCA on the historical use of furs, so I have a
reasonable collection of what I call my fondling furs and that's what
I'm comparing to Michelle's photos.]
Ermines are very small, and their fur is fairly short and fine. They
don't really have guard hairs and underfur
H. Let me grab my basket of fondling furs...
The darker one looks like marten or sable (I have a marten that used to be
a collar and he looks just like that). The lighter one is harder to
tell--how long and wide are the pieces? It could be fitch, although it
could also be raccoon or a
Have you also found the 12th century garb list on Yahoo? It's here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/12thcenturygarb/
There's a bunch of stuff that members have posted online, and of course
there's the archives. Both are full of nifty info. There are also several
blogs out there that have good
The SCA is everywhere (mostly). This is the page for the AU and NZ groups:
http://lochac.sca.org/lochac/
Pennsic is an annual 2-week event held in Pennsylvania:
http://www.pennsicwar.org is the event page
and http://www.pennsic.net/ is a page maintained by an individual
This is the second
Yeah, it looks like their web server is broken. Hopefully their web store
people are on it.
Jen
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Rickard, Patty wrote:
I keep getting a processing error when I try to access their site.
patty
Ladies Gents,
Those of you who've bought from Gray Line Linen:
On Sat, 22 May 2010, Zuzana Kraemerova wrote:
Does anybody know any pictures from the 13th century/beginning 14th
century where a side lacing could be seen? Except for Spain and Italy:-)
thanks,
Zuzana
Zuzana--
I've been studying 13th century European (mostly English, 'tis
true) costume
I have a conundrum and I was hoping someone (or multiple someones) could
offer some advice on solving it.
I do 13th century costuming, which means rectangular body panels, and I've
started doing embroidered trim for them, so far just collar and cuff
embroidery. This gets done separately and
On Thu, 6 May 2010, Alexandria Doyle wrote:
I am looking for metal (or metal look) shank buttons, with the motif
of snowflakes, holly or stags. Does anyone have any sources to check
out? So far I've come up with white plastic snowflakes...
thanks
alex
I've used these from La Mode for
Hello the list!
Does anyone have any good resources on how to sew fur? I am trying to work
up a class on fur in historical costuming and although I have found a few
books that cover the topic but they get mixed reviews.
Many thanks!
Jen/pixel/Margaret
On the project pile is: my still unfinished apron dress that started life
as a 13th c. gown that Did Not Work, the embroidered collar for a
different 13th c. gown (the Consort's has been finished for, well, a
while), the embroidered and pearled cuffs for the spouse's dalmatic that
is still
Hmmm.
Kermes is a related insect to the cochineal bug--it gives that lovely deep
pure red. Fustic is the heartwood of one of the trees in the Mulberry
family, and it produces yellows and oranges. You could, in theory, use
kermes with fustic but I think unless you had a very large
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Dawn wrote:
Michelle Plumb wrote:
Hello, all.
I purchased a lightweight denim jacket dyed a dark blue. It's lovely, but
reeks of vinegar!
I've washed it three times, and the smell lingers on.
Are you sure it is vinegar and not cat or dog pee? Either can leave a
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Joan Mielke wrote:
I am in envy of Sarah/Bess' new veil pins. My supplier discontinued them in
the US. Does anyone have a reliable source for brass veil pins--the very
plain, but thin ones, about 2 1/2 inches long?
Joan
How thick are they? I have been making my own
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Patricia Dunham wrote:
As to the fur in the painting... I have no idea. Looks like a very pale tan
to me, not gray at all. Of course there's no telling what the original color
was, what with ... 4-500 yrs of varnish on top of it. If anyone can get
sufficient detail to
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Saragrace Knauf wrote:
I am about to embark on a Arnolfi Wedding dress.
http://tinyurl.com/creey
OR
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=NG186
I have 12 yards of the bright green woolit weighs a ton! It
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Dawn wrote:
Cin wrote:
It's Oscar weekend, theater season, it's almost spring. There must be
something!
A mantle of dust trimmed with a fringe of silky black cat hair. :(
Dawn
Isn't the pet hair an assumed? All my embroidery frames end up with a
silky fringe of
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
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
I'd actually say it was SCA Generic Early Period, myself, since it looks
like he's wearing front-lacing suede boots. :-)
I agree with the Normanish, c. 1100, with either small side gores or the
garment has been pulled into a fold at the side because it isn't hanging
straight in the front.
Unmarried maidens in the Maciejowski Bible wear fillets and their hair
down--I can't at the moment bring any other examples to mind without
the library being to hand, though. I *would*, however, like to see more
manuscripts from the same time and similar places to compare before I feel
I'll second (or third) the opinion on The Devil's Cloth. Entertaining, a
good jumping-off place for further research, and occasionally there's an
outright gem in his quoted sources that makes up for the eight or nine
pages you just spent thinking Is he high?
Jen
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, Suzanne
I sort-of dressed up. I am intermittently wearing white bunny ears
(intermittently because they're a little tight) and if anybody asks I am
Harvey.
Jen
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Shane Sheridan Chabot wrote:
So who dressed up for work today and what are you wearing?
I grabbed random stuff out
I have not tried this on cloth of silver, but I have used it to
clean other silver things--those magic silver cleaners are blocks of
aluminum that you put in water with a 1:1 solution of baking soda and
salt. It really does work, and then if you rinsed the cloth with a weak
vinegar solution
Hello to the list!
I know some of you teach or have taught textile classes, and it is you to
whom I come with a request for assistance:
I am in the process of writing up a pair of fiber classes (Fibers 101 and
102) and I am looking for a textiles textbook with useful discussions of
fiber
On the sewing table (currently playing the part of my dummy) are a 13th c.
gown in dark blue wool that needs hemming and readjusting the dratted neck
placket, a 13th c. gown in sage green lightweight linen that needs
armscye gussets, seam finishing, and hemming, and then there's a piece of
sleeve is this? I'd love to know. :)
Claudine
- Original Message
From: Pixel, Goddess and Queen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:49:57 PM
Subject: [h-cost] I saw it!
I saw the sleeve! *bounce* *bounce* *bounce
The account of the Martin Guerre trial mentions white hose lined with
white taffeta. The account was published in 1572 (translation here:
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/hgarrett/documents/coras.htm).
Jen/pixel/Margaret
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not aware of any
Well, depending on what it is and how big it is--
charcloth
trim
pieced hose
pouches
pin holders (I have lots of scraps of wool melton full of pins)
patches
hoods
more pouches
shoes
coifs
Otherwise it goes into the Bin Of Useful Fabric to donate to someone else,
or into the bin for my Fibers
I tried to go shopping for shorts today - EVERYTHING is low rise now. I was
in Macy's, Dilliards, Penny's etc - nada - nothing
GRR!
Have you tried Old Navy?
/Jen
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I have five, in total. I have two Viking basic machines, a Daisy and a 310
or 315. That one is over at the Consort's house for the sewing of his
armor. I also have a Kenmore quilter's machine that was a gift from my
mother*, her old avocado green metal Kenmore, with table, and an ancient
Do you by chance have a list of the ones you already own, so you don't end
up with duplicates?
Jen
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Robin Netherton wrote:
This seems like a good time to make my periodic request:
For those of you who want to dump your Bad Old Costume Books, no need to foist
them off
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Penny wrote: These are the only original prints. They only see the light
of day, when I show them to my college students. One day I will find a
scanner with a large enough bed to scan them.
You should check with the media department of the
Time to come clean...What was the most price of you have ever paid for a
book, collection of work, etc.
I think it's a toss-up between $177 for the St. Louis Psalter facsimile
(which I wrote to the publisher for), and the ABEGG book, which was
something like $160.
If I'd thought I might
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Penny Ladnier wrote:
This could be really fun to poll the list. Lurkers come out, wherever you
are!
About how many costume/fashion related books or magazines do you own?
Um. That depends on what you consider costume related. I have books on
gothic sculpture that are
Fettered Cock, which others have recommended.
Billy and Charlie's, which others have recommended.
I would add Gaukler's Medieval Wares to that list:
http://www.medievalwares.com/ for bronze belt hardware. He is extremely
knowledgeable, and often his pieces are direct casts of originals in his
What time period of medieval? What are you wearing it with? Generally,
length depends on whether or not you're tripping on it and what your
socio-economic class is. The more money (or rank) you have, the longer and
fancier your belt.
The best thing I've found to soften leather is use, or you
Having done a certain amount of fabric painting in my youth, dilute
acrylic paints a bit so they sink into the fabric and are more flexible.
There's medium you can buy to add that's specifically for fabric, but I
never noticed that it made much of a difference.
Jen
Another useful bit to help you identify the Magi: frankincense and myrrh
are aromatic resins*, so they're going to be in containers. Two of the
Magi are always holding containers of some sort--either covered cups or
boxes.
Incidentally, the actual Biblical text (in Luke, IIRC) does not
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Robin Netherton wrote:
Pixel, Goddess and Queen wrote:
We're going for just a general overview, designed to make people maybe
think first before they say I know they wore X, it's in all the pictures!
... we plan to touch on pretty much everything Robin mentions
I could go on, but I don't have the time for a long post. If I were speaking,
it would take me an hour just to give you a good overview, and more to
examine any one of these angles (as I know for a fact, as I've built multiple
lectures around this issue). Other people are supplying good
Help!!
My consort and I are preparing a class about visual sources and why they
should not be taken as 100% gospel when doing costuming research, and as
usual once I get past about 1300 I hit a snag. :-) If you want to
discourse on the changes in sleeve geometry from 1200 to 1300 in England
Since I haven't gotten around to finishing the duct-tape-and-spray-foam
double yet, I have a workbasket. ;-)
Currently in the workbasket is a veil that I will someday finish hemming,
and the yellow Moselund dress. I first built this dress back in...2004, I
think, for Northshield's first
As per Robin's request for headwords:
fillet
barbette
chainse
wicklebandr
leg wrappings
hose
chausses
cotte
kirtle
gown
gunna
brooch
laces
braies
breeches
fur, use of fur
pelice
pelicon
chemise
precious stones
pearls
Jen/Pixel
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Since I'm supposed to be writing a paper on globalization, naturally I
work on coming up with more headwords:
gardes-corps
chapes
ceinture
girdles
tapes
bezants
pins
saya
garters
shoes
slippers
boots
buskins
sandals
chopines
coif
hood
mantle
vair
ermine
miniver
scarlet
fustian
cendal
samite
For the 14th c. I would go with a gabardine or worsted twill, actually,
unless you can find a lightweight woolen. Layers, rather than one heavy
garment, are the way to go here (and accurate for the period!).
For Fashion Fabrics Club, keywords are 100% wool and then suiting,
gabardine,
Suit weight can be worsted or woolen. I've had modern tabby-woven
woolens full an awful lot--something like 30%--in the wash. Worsted is
much less likely to full.
Jen/pixel
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Audrey Bergeron-Morin wrote:
They won't full, or I'd be surprised if they moved more than very
How modern are sueded or hammered silk charmeuse?
I need to get some silk for sleeve linings, and those are my options in
the color I want.
many thanks,
Jen/Pixel
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On Thu, 10 May 2007, E House wrote:
My thought (on the February image) was always that it was due to lice or the
like...
-E House
Actually I think it's just artistic conventions--they just didn't draw the
pubic hair. You see this in the depictions of the human body in 12th and
13th
*snicker*
I always give them a month or two with the book and *then* request it. Here,
it isn't The Academic Year anymore, the loan period is One Calendar Year.
Tomorrow, I'm going to put in a request for Thor Ewing's Viking Clothing
book. Anybody got any comments on it?
susan
It's a
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Lauren Walker wrote:
Thanks, Kimiko. That was part of my worry -- that the shoulder straps would
be falling off me, or far too widely-spaced, or way too long (that is, that
they'd widen into the bodice way too low to be of use to me) and I'd have a
devil of a time
Specifically, something that closely resembles ermine. I can find thicker
stuff--if I wanted to line something with mink or fitch I'd be
set--but I haven't been able to find something that is as low pile as
ermine. Everything I've found is too thick and heavy.
Would a white minky fabric be
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