I have been following online trends for years. As for the slow time on
email lists web, July/August and November/December are slow months. This
is due to holidays/vacations months. The busiest months are Sept., Oct.,
Jan.-March. Sept-Oct is due to Halloween and schools/colleges going back
When you guys are talking about LiveJournal and Facebook being only
replying to something the page owner posted.. you are completely
forgetting about the 'community page' option! I know Lj has community
pages, I've been moderator on a couple (though pretty inactive). and I'm
on a few FB
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:37:22 -0700
From: Lavolta Press f...@lavoltapress.com
To: Historical Costume h-cost...@indra.com
Subject: [h-cost] Where is everyone hanging out these days?
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There is actually a large and thriving historic costuming community. I just
don't think they are represented on this list. With no insult intended for
anyone, I think what is dying is this list rather than historic
costuming/reenactment community. Of all of the people I know in my own
No sooner do I post that I have nothing to say, than I do:
I'm conducting some research into the construction of Mariano
Fortuny's pleated gowns. The Costume Institute at the Met in NYC has
several with sleeves, which could hopefully answer some questions I
have that the easier-to-find sleeveless
On Aug 7, 2011, at 8:43 AM, Beteena Paradise wrote:
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Though I have not been vocal for long stretches of time, I have been on this
list for about 7 or 8 years. I know many of you have been around for much
longer. And I am sure that this was once the best place for everyone to
Though I have not been vocal for long stretches of time, I have been
on this list for about 7 or 8 years. I know many of you have been around
for much longer. And I am sure that this was once the best place for
everyone to congregate and share and explore the topic together. But as
technology
On 8/7/2011 4:01 AM, penn...@costumegallery.com wrote:
A lot of people
are still out of work. People were sending a lot of posts from work.
People may have backed off of doing so, probably scared they might lose
their jobs if caught. Many businesses are also monitoring employees emails
too.
Actually, I wasn't trying to start a discussion about whether h-costume
is dying, but asking whether there are any interesting costuming groups
I don't know about. But, there is less traffic here than formerly. As
I've said, I think there is a lot of benefit to a multiera list, and one
whose
On Aug 7, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Lavolta Press wrote:
Yet, some noncostuming email lists I am on are so active, every
single day, that there is no way I can follow all the messages.
including a couple of majordomo lists.
Is it because costume is visual? For your other e-mail lists, are
Is it because costume is visual? For your other e-mail lists, are they
about visual arts, or can everything be expressed with writing?
When pictures are necessary people post links to them. But I don't think
a picture is worth 1,000 words in costume. Usually accompanying words
are
I don't post very often but I read h-costume daily. I also like the fact
that it comes to my in box and I dont' have to search for it.
I'm not on facebook or twitter or anything but email. I have only so much
time to play on the computer and I find that the few email lists I'm on are
sufficient
I started my own costume blog and mostly blog there, or on the costume
blogs of other interested friends. It can be found at:
http://cathyscostumeblog.blogspot.com/
On 08/06/2011 05:42 PM, Lavolta Press wrote:
I don't do Twitter, but on Facebook, there has been a lot of in depth
Heather,
Numbers 1-6 sound like the Fashion Life Cycle!
Penny Ladnier, owner
The Costume Gallery Websites
www.costumegallery.com
15 websites of fashion, costume, and textile history
FaceBook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Costume-Gallery-Websites/107498415961579
So here are the questions...how did you find the h-costume email list? And
what year did you join? It will be really interesting how the newbies have
found it.
I found it as one of two costume email lists in 1996 on AOL.
Penny Ladnier, owner
The Costume Gallery Websites
www.costumegallery.com
So here are the questions...how did you find the h-costume email list? And
what year did you join?
Word of mouth from friends in the local chapter of the costumer's
guild. I dont think the list was much more than a few weeks old at
the time. 1994?
Obligatory costume content: not working on
Same here, this one in its first incarnation back in 93 or 94, then a couple
on Aol and a bbs. :)
Franchesca
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Yeah, h-costume an dh-needlework at about the same time, I think.
LynnD
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Franchesca franchesca.ha...@gmail.comwrote:
Same here, this one in its first incarnation back in 93 or 94, then a
couple
on Aol and a bbs. :)
Franchesca
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