On Apr 18, 2009, at 4:28 PM, Kate Pinner wrote:
Some British institutions use the Tudor round cap in velvet for
PhDs, so I
made mine in plain black wool with no tassel (since I'm a mere MFA).
Melanie Schuessler
Eastern Michigan University
I'm an MFA, too, but Yale figured that since it
Hi,
I am constantly solving one problem and as a woman I cannot really guess and I
am afraid to ask the customers...:-) Well, I am making 15th century hose and am
wondering as where to exactly place the codpiece. The style of the hose is like
here (the second man from the left):
I've only had to make them for 16th century clothing, but I found that it is
usually starts lower than we think they need to be. The first time I put a
simple codpiece on, it ended up way too high and ended up almost at the waist
level at the upper end. So I've found that to be most accurate
years ago I fitted one on my fiance, and he was more sensitive to where the
pins were going than to anything else. But yeah, an inch or two lower than
where the zipper on trousers go. Make it big enough to fit a tangerine and
it will be large enough. I like to sew them all the way down one
Susan Farmer wrote:
Has anybody ever run across a pattern for contemporary Academic Hoods
(snip)
This link takes you to an advertisement for a new little book on the
academic dress of Oxford University:-
http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2009/090403.html
There is a description of the
Which came first, the pink outfit or the idea that men in the arts are often
homosexual?
Please don't send me any angry messages about me being a homophone. I ask
flippantly and I have almost as many gay friends as straight friends.
LynnD in the San Francisco Bay Area
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at
Quoting Linda Walton linda.wal...@dsl.pipex.com:
Susan Farmer wrote:
Has anybody ever run across a pattern for contemporary Academic Hoods (snip)
This link takes you to an advertisement for a new little book on the
academic dress of Oxford University:-
Lynn Downward wrote:
Please don't send me any angry messages about me being a homophone
Hmm. Lynn, Linn, Lynne, Lin ... sounds like a homophone to me.
(g,d,r)
--Robin
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Not contemporary, 1890s, but more recent than some of the examples in this
great discussion. ;)
At the Costumer's Manifesto site, the Cutter's Practical Guide:
http://www.costumes.org/HISTORY/100pages/1893to1898cuttersguide.htm
Look under one of the Parts 9 for a section which includes hoods
