Re: [h-cost] your dream costume trip
If I had three months, I have always wanted three months to research in Egypt. Within the next month or so, one dream trip is coming true. I am going to Philadelphia to see the King Tut exhibit. I would also like to visit the FIDM during Oscar week to view the film costumes nominated. Then watch the Red Carpet for the Oscars to see the fashions worn up close. I would also like to see Debbie Reynolds film costume collection I have also wanted to go to the Costume Institute at the MET, then see the Lion King play. I would love to go to Mexico for Day of the Dead. I saw a mini-version when I lived in New Mexico. I would also like to go back to the Folk Art Museum in Santa Fe, NM. This is one of my favorite museums. The displays are the best I have seen in a museum. Go to Carnival in Venice. Also, go to Rio for Carnivale. Another carnival related one, Gasparilla in Tampa, Florida. I would love to see the pirates taking over the city! I was so close to going to Gasparilla and couldn't because I was teaching at the time. These celebrations are actually high on my list with Egypt and the Oscars. I party hard when away from the kids! Those who have been at CSA symposiums know that I travel with a blender! Last weekend, another dream trip happened...not so costume related but fun! We went sailing on one of the tall ships. We took a short cruise on the York River from Yorktown, VA. We celebrated our 29th wedding anniversary on a sunset cruise. I would also love to go to the Vatican to see the art collection and the castles in Germany. My husband has been to Germany several times and has been most impressed with the castles. I am known for getting kicked out of museums... not for my partying or my blender ; ! I stay in museums and state libraries until I am the last one there. I always get a guarded escort out. I just don't want to leave until someone says that I HAVE to leave. Well, last week, I got kicked out of the National Archives! A new notch on my belt. LOL! I have been to the archives several times to research but had never seen the exhibits. So far I have been kicked out of: ***London's National Gallery, the Portrait Gallery, Tower of London, VA, St. Paul's Cathedral ***Liverpool's Cathedrals (I'm bad when I get kicked out of the Catholic and the Church of England's Cathedrals) ***Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh: Guards followed us around because I wanted to look up close to every brush stroke. I believe another he-costumer was with me for this one! ***Williamsburg Museum: I didn't get kicked out, but I was setting off alarms from getting to close to the needlework samplers. I just wanted to see the stitches up close! ***Virginia Historical Society: I was drawing floor plans for a class. ***Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: This one was not my fault... #2 son was a baby and wouldn't stop crying. Irony, he majored in art in college. And he is a big art critic! BTW, this was my first museum to be kicked out of. ***Library of Virginia: too many times to count! I was doing research. ***LDS local Library: many times! ***I even got kicked out of the Painted Desert. I will retract my VA Museum of Fine Art response about my first. The Painted Desert was my first! Believe it or not, the Painted Desert does close. I asked the ranger if they draw a big curtain around it. My husband and kids thought it was funny. But the ranger didn't and escorted us out. Penny Ladnier, Owner, The Costume Gallery Websites www.costumegallery.com www.costumelibrary.com www.costumeclassroom.com www.costumeencyclopedia.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] your dream costume trip
At 02:55 07/07/2007, you wrote: So if you had 3 months (just to set an arbitrary limit to what you can see but feel free to ignore any time it might take to travel between museums/countries) to travel the world and see every costume related museum you could what would you want to see. My list: In the UK I'd have to prioritise the VA, Museum of London, Museum of Costume in Bath (I missed that when I was in the UK a few years ago) National Portrait Gallery (another one I missed on that trip and although it's not directly costume related I've got to see all those Tudor portraits). In the USA, The Met in New York (I'm not sure on their costume collection but I've heard good things about their art collection), Museum of Fine Arts Boston (if their online collection is anything to go by their costume collection must be pretty impressive) but that's all I could come up with off the top of my head, I know there's some good European museums but I don't know any names. So let your imagination fly and come up with your own list Elizabeth In no particular order, and assuming I would be allowed into the archives/stores, I think I would need longer than three months. But, supposing I had time Kyoto The Hermitage in St. Petersburg - I've seen some of the clothes from there - more, more!! The Collections in Florence (Pitti Palace, Uffizzi etc.) Musee des Arts et du Textiles in Paris Musee Galliera also in Paris The museum in Holland that is twinned with the Paris set up Musee du Tissus in Lyon - all that silk Platt Hall in Manchester The DAR Museum in Washington - I only saw the stores, not what was on display, and left 30 minutes after the place closed, and 3 hours after the curator left!! The Met in New York Colonial Williamsburg - I was there for about 75 minutes and barely shifted the covers, let alone scrape the surface LACMA, where almost nothing is on display, but they have a huge collection And that is just clothing. Another three years for the Art Galleries is needed I think. Greedy, moi? Suzi ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] your dream costume trip
--- Cin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: travel the world and see every costume related museum you could what would you want to see. I'd prioritize several ways. Places I havent been: Museum of the Confederacy (Richmond VA) --cin Cynthia Bar,nes I was distinctly unimpressed by the Museum of the Confederacy. Costuming-specific, they has a little lacey knit mitt on display, which was labelled crochet. Unless crochet now means knit with holes in? The few far between other clothing items on display were largely nothing that impressed me. fwiw. Ann in CT p.s., the whole 'rmance of the glorious South' has pretty much passed me by; and this was before I read the letter about an uncle of mine getting his head blown off. ac Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/ ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
RE: [h-cost] your dream costume trip
Interesting how different people respond to different things. My all-time favorite costuming stop was the Museum of the Confederacy. Go figure. I found the curator VERY accommodating--our scheduled half-hour behind-the-scenes-down-in-the-archives trip to look at a maximum of three items turned into a four hour quick and dirty look at every single piece of fabric in the archives. It all depends on what you are looking for, I guess. My husband and I are both very interested in military uniforms, which is much of the focus of course. However, I'm also an avid researcher of the city of Winchester, Virginia vis a vis the Civil War. One of my favorite diaries from Winchester was by Cornelia Peake MacDonald. Mrs. MacDonald had a new bronze silk dinner dress made in anticipation of a scheduled dinner with her husband's commanding officer, General Stonewall Jackson. Instead, Jackson was wounded at Chancellorsville and subsequently died of his wounds before the planned dinner could take place, and Mrs. MacDonald carefully packed away the bronze silk dress unworn. Finding it on display at the Museum of the Confederacy, along with Mrs. MacDonald's daughter's beloved doll which she also mentioned in her diary, was worth the trip for me and brought me to tears because I knew the story behind the scenes as it were. My husband, by contrast, had been reading a specific soldier's diary on our trip, and was thrilled to find the man's uniform coat down in the climate controlled storage units.And if you're looking for pretty stuff, the Valentine Museum is just down the street from the Museum of the Confederacy. They have one of the largest collections of women's historical clothing in the United States. They are also amenable to scheduled trips into the archives to examine their pieces. And again, we found the museum curator VERY accommodating, and spent several hours examining any number of garments over and above the allowed number before we adjourned for an impromptu lunch to discuss historic clothing. One place I haven't heard anyone mention is a bit off the beaten path. About four years ago, my girlfriend took me to the University of Rhode Island to see their historic clothing collection. I found a fabulous variety of women's dresses, outerwear, bonnets, shoes, accessorites, etc. that was very comprehensive between 1800-1920. Again, we were assigned a graduate student who was very accommodating and basically turned us and our cameras loose to spend a wonderful afternoon playing in the store room. I couldn't tell you the exact number of items they have, but I know I burned through two 1 gig memory cards in the digital camera in short order, and had to go down and get my friend's digi out of the car.Bottom line: I guess you get out of something what you're willing to put into it. If you're well-versed and interested in what a specific museum has on display, you'll probably go home happy. If you don't have a specific knowledge or interest, you're far more likely to go home disappointed. A friend just returned from a trip to China. She now regrets that she didn't learn more about Chinese history and culture BEFORE her trip, because many of the things she saw had little significance for her without the background knowledge.One other place I just remembered--if you're interested in historic military uniforms, an absolute must-see is the Artillery Museum in Newport, RI. Absolutely wonderful, lots of great things on display, and once again, tremendously accommodating docents and curator.LuAnn Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 14:31:13 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [h-cost] your dream costume trip To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC:--- Cin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:travel the world and see every costume related museum you could what would you want to see.I'd prioritize several ways. Places I havent been: Museum of the Confederacy (Richmond VA)--cin Cynthia Bar,nes I was distinctly unimpressed by the Museum of the Confederacy. Costuming-specific, they has a little lacey knit mitt on display, which was labelled crochet. Unless crochet now means knit with holes in? The few far between other clothing items on display were largely nothing that impressed me. fwiw. Ann in CT p.s., the whole 'rmance of the glorious South' has pretty much passed me by; and this was before I read the letter about an uncle of mine getting his head blown off. ac Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/ ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
RE: [h-cost] your dream costume trip
Don't forget the Historic Costume Textile Museum at Kent State University in the USA. Patty From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Elizabeth Walpole Sent: Fri 7/6/2007 9:55 PM To: Historic Costume Subject: [h-cost] your dream costume trip So if you had 3 months (just to set an arbitrary limit to what you can see but feel free to ignore any time it might take to travel between museums/countries) to travel the world and see every costume related museum you could what would you want to see. My list: In the UK I'd have to prioritise the VA, Museum of London, Museum of Costume in Bath (I missed that when I was in the UK a few years ago) National Portrait Gallery (another one I missed on that trip and although it's not directly costume related I've got to see all those Tudor portraits). In the USA, The Met in New York (I'm not sure on their costume collection but I've heard good things about their art collection), Museum of Fine Arts Boston (if their online collection is anything to go by their costume collection must be pretty impressive) but that's all I could come up with off the top of my head, I know there's some good European museums but I don't know any names. So let your imagination fly and come up with your own list Elizabeth Elizabeth Walpole Canberra Australia ewalpole[at]tpg.com.au http://au.geocities.com/amiperiodornot/ ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
