Thank you for the link. I love the hats from Downton Abbey. The series is
a treat to watch on Sunday nights. Season 2 is playing on PBS Sunday nights
in the U.S. Season 1 is on Netflixs.
My pet peeve, the author of the article refers to the hats as Edwardian.
The Edwardian era ends 6 May
So is this the next costume drama where everyone will be rushing to
reproduce the costumes?
Fran
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Books on making historic clothing
www.lavoltapress.com
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By everyone, do you mean major pattern companies? Is PBS even on the radar
of the Big Three?
Dede
--- On Mon, 1/17/11, Lavolta Press f...@lavoltapress.com wrote:
So is this the next costume drama where everyone will be rushing to reproduce
the costumes?
Fran
I'd be surprised if the Big Three even gave it a thought. Plus, with my
experience in all of their historical patterns they shoot out, I spend
much more time having to deal with them than they are actually worth (mostly
the Big Three all have to add wearing ease - which is completely wrong for
On 1/17/2011 1:14 PM, WorkroomButtons.com wrote:
By everyone, do you mean major pattern companies? Is PBS even on the radar
of the Big Three?
Dede
The Big Three can probably just haul out the patterns they published for
Titanic costumes, with a couple of minor alterations.
But what I
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 4:14 PM, WorkroomButtons.com
westvillagedrap...@yahoo.com wrote:
By everyone, do you mean major pattern companies? Is PBS even on the
radar of the Big Three?
It's a BBC show, rather than just a PBS show--and it's a popular one!
Wouldn't surprise me if there's a bit of
Ah... thank you, Elena. I forgot Downton Abbey was produced by the BBC, not
PBS.
My uneducated, uninformed, stab-in-the-dark guess is no, because however far
the reach of the BBC, it's still not Hollywood (which produced Out of Africa
and Titanic). However, my costume drama-crazed teenager
In a message dated 1/17/2011 4:33:03 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
exst...@gmail.com writes:
It's a BBC show,
According to their website, it is indeed British, but ITV1, not BBC.
Ann Wass
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Oop! I just realized that I had combined two different threads into one and
posted on here! (Was thinking more about the miniature sized costume
threads)
As for Downtown Abbey, I haven't seen it yet but it does look like a great
show and I definitely see where the idea of that influencing
