[h-cost] book sale
Hi List, I'm clearing out various costume/textile books, most in like new condition. If you're interested, email me and I'll send you the titles. Melissa Roberts ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] post-mortem photos
This question made me curious because I've seen so many photos labeled PM when I thought they weren't. And of course I stare with same morbid curiosity as the next person (Thanatos?)! But standing poses - I don't know. It's practically impossible to hold an unconscious person upright - I know this - so imagine a corpse. To make the costume connection, it's also difficult to dress one! Anyway, these links were the first to come up. Interesting. http://mourningportraits.blogspot.com/p/hoaxes-scams-ebay-optimism.html http://www.pinterest.com/angelusmortis2/post-mortem-photography-no-you-dont-see-dead-peopl/ Melissa Roberts ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Elizabethan superheroes
Brilliant! Melissa Roberts *http://tinyurl.com/n9b7r2n http://tinyurl.com/n9b7r2n* ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] More music than costume
but still http://www.examiner.com/article/cellists-playing-ac-dc-s-thunderstruck-is-the-best-thing-you-ll-watch-2014 http://tinyurl.com/qebresk Melissa Roberts ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Cheapside hoard
And speaking of books, here's another: London's Lost Jewels: The Cheapside Hoard, http://www.amazon.com/Londons-Lost-Jewels-Cheapside-Hoard/dp/1781300208 Melissa Roberts ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Theriault's
They have a new series of videos showing some fabulous mid to late 19thC dolls and costumes from the Hanne Büktas collection. I think episode 5 or 6 focuses on costume, but they all have plenty to see. http://www.youtube.com/user/theriaultdollauction Melissa Roberts ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Clothing of the Future, 2000
This was fun - anything look familiar? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9eAiy0IGBI Melissa Roberts ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] The Tudor Child
Quite Specific Media has this on sale right now, free US shipping, good price! Melissa Roberts ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] h-costume Digest, Vol 12, Issue 75
Glad you enjoyed it - sometimes I get too serious and need to remember I do this because it's fun! Melissa Roberts ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Pattern drafting history, Kidwell, Seligman
Does anyone know of researchers who are currently studying the history of pattern making? The only scholarly books I have on the subject are Kidwell's (1979) and Seligman's (1996), nothing more recent, and I don't know if anyone is doing similar research any more. thanks! Melissa Roberts ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] h-costume Digest, Vol 10, Issue 289
Thanks for all the leads, I'm going velveteen shopping! ~Melissa ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] cotton velvet/velveteen?
Can anyone direct me to a source for velveteen? The washable, apparel weight kind. Way back in time I could find a variety of colors, including the soft muted shades I'm looking for, at chain fabric stores. Then maybe on ebay. Then sometimes online fabric stores. Now I can't seem to find it anywhere - maybe I'm looking in the wrong places. Please, any suggestions? thanks! Melissa Roberts PS I don't want to dye it myself! ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] costume auction catalog
I don't know if anyone's posted this before, I may have missed it. If you did, too, have a look, it's gorgeous! Debbie Reynolds costume auction catalog, free pdf download: http://www.profilesinhistory.com/debbie-reynolds-auction/debbie-reynolds-the-auction Melissa Roberts ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] sacques, belated
I'm sorry to come so late to the discussion - this may now be irrelevant. I believe Nancy Rexford was right, these are sacques, used as she (or others on the list?) stated. Mid-19th century magazine are full of patterns for them and as a plain-sewing collector I have a few. Back when I first came across them I was just as confused, thinking them so much like men's shirts due to the fabric, square cut, binders, etc. Here are some excerpts from period sources, in no particular order, that I had found. - The two went back to the large room. The air was scorching. Miriam undressed, slipped her thin, girlish arms into a muslin sacque, and lay down. Christianna drew the blinds together, took a palm-leaf fan and sat beside her. I'll fan you, jest as easy, she said, in her sweet, drawling voice. An' I can't truly sing, but I can croon. Don't you want me to croon you 'Shining River'? Miriam lay with closed eyes. A fly buzzed in the darkened room. The fan went monotonously to and fro. Christianna crooned Shining River and then Shady Grove. Outside,on the brick pavement, the sound of feet went by in a slender stream. The Long Roll, 1911 and Mr. Herriott confronted Juno. You are Mr. Herriott, as I supposed. Walk in, and excuse the confusion of the rooms. I was up all night, and have not put things in order. She wore a dark skirt and white muslin sacque, ... A Speckled Bird, 1902 Not a word till you 're in bed again! Ruth will come up; won't you, Ruth ? And Miss Susie found herself deposited up stairs before she had a chance to make even a feint of resistance. Ruth sat down in the sewing chair, while Margaret made the little invalid's toilet, the child being all excitement at this partial escape. Shoes and stockings, and a dress. Oh, please Margaret, a real dress I not a clean nightgown, and that hateful sacque! Though it's a very nice sacque, and I don't know what I should have done without it; only I'm so tired of it now. That's real good I—and Susie stood on tiptoe to see herself in the glass over Margaret's dressing-table, but turned away with a rueful look. Oh, dear! I'm just like a boy! Oh, I didn't think I looked so queer! What made you cut my hair so close ? What am I going to do? Godey's, 1858 Q. Then the next paragraph is quoting from your report: “‘ No nightgowns are provided, the women wear instead short cotton sacques, and the same chemises they have worn all day.” Then he comments on this: “Those who wear the chemises do so from preference. The nightgowns are such as are provided at the Boston Lying-in hospital. and are perfectly well adapted for our class of patients?” A. Well. I don’t doubt that some of the women wear the chemises in preference. I have no doubt that lots of those people prefer to be dirty, but I don’t think the superintendent should prefer to have them so; and as for the nightgowns being proper, I don’t say that that is not the case, but I know it is not proper for them to wear the chemises that they wear in the daytime. I know one thing, that it is a very common institution practice for people to sleep in clothes that they wear during the day, and often if you will go through at night you will find nine out of ten or ninety-nine out of a hundred doing that in all institutions. I know that we found that to be the case in the institutions under our supervision, and we said that it wasn’t clean, and that it shouldn't be done. The result is that we have had that carried out. They should not sleep in the clothes they wear in the daytime, and it is no excuse and no answer for the superintendent to say that they like to be dirty. Of course they do, lots of them. Q. (By the CHAIRMAN.) I would like to ask what the character of these nightgowns is? A. Little sacques that come down about to there, or there—a little sort of unbleached-cotton jacket, coming a little below the waist. I don’t question that they are worn in other hospitals, and I don’t question that they are the proper gown to wear, but it seems to me it is better not to have the inmates wear at night anything they have been wearing during the day. I think the wards would smell sweeter if that was not done. We mentioned the fact that it was a short jacket or sacque to explain why they wore chemises at night, because otherwise it might seem strange that they should wear them in the night-time. The reason is because if they didn’t wear anything else they would be very much uncovered. Documents/Boston, 1895 Before entering upon the treatment proper it may be well to review briefly the necessary adjuncts, as proper preparation will aid materially the course to be adopted. Preparations Necessary with Regard to the Patient.—Many of the preparations necessary in the lying-in chamber are desirable in cases of abortion as well. Attention should be paid to the bowels, as a costive condition will interfere to some extent with the manipulations as well as a rapid and favorable course of expulsion and involution; at
[h-cost] Book, Unravelling Textiles?
Unravelling Textiles: A Handbook for the Preservation of Textile Collections, Foekje Boersma Can anyone comment on this book? I'm looking for one on this subject, but I'd like one that is focused on practical application of techniques. I'm not looking for too-basic (avoid light, humidity, temperature extremes) or ones that sound like grad school papers (contextualize, social construct, stakeholder, empower, dialectic). I need one that will inform me how/if to clean and repair or stabilize against further damage. thanks! Melissa Roberts ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
