I've been contemplating this project for 2 months now and have changed everything including fabric and color selection. I think I've finally settled on my...
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Deborah Clinton
ygraineuxdraco
Oct 31, 2003 2:27 am
I wholeheartedly agree. Even if it is something obviously not period (like sunglasses), the person wearing the sunglasses may have to wear them. I'd rather...
71912
Alison Choyce
greenfaere1
Oct 31, 2003 3:50 am
I've read, but I'm afraid I can't think where, that the ancient Greek women would bleach their hair, that it was very fashionable. Alison ... From:...
71913
elara_drake
Oct 31, 2003 4:04 am
... I've ... heavy ... over ... treatments ... **I wouldn't use the velveteen as the interior layer, go w/ 2 layers of denim, like you had thought, that will...
71914
Phoibe Korinthia
phoebe_apo_k...
Oct 31, 2003 4:06 am
In my research, I have not seen plaid chitons. But the other colors would work for them. Lady Phoibe Korinthia AoA, Golden Calon Swan, Leather Mallet ... From:...
71915
Valerie Frank
anna_von_a
Oct 31, 2003 5:00 am
... From: n2kye To: SCA-Garb@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 8:17 AM Subject: [SCA-Garb] NJ - Union/Somerset (WAS: Re: This garb!) ... I guess...
71916
Katie Daniel/Maimuna
maimoouna
Oct 31, 2003 11:07 am
Greetings! I want to echo the sentiment of sunglasses... Living in the desert, I use sunglasses almost all year, partly because I don't want to have cataracts...
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Lila Richards
sinechnz
Oct 31, 2003 11:53 am
... I do almost exclusively early mediaeval, so tunics are my thing. I have a lovely dark green wool outer tunic, and also a dark brown one, and a variety of...
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Tina Paxton
frecs7
Oct 31, 2003 3:10 pm
... Well, now that's going a bit far even for Authenticity Nazis! But, I was reading the other day....can't remember where now....that blonde hair was the...
71919
Christine Krebs-Bonder
mischiefmicah
Oct 31, 2003 3:14 pm
I can't say anything specific about whether the women (and men) in the earlier part of the time the SCA plays in, but during hte 1400s and 1500s there is...
71920
Deborah Clinton
ygraineuxdraco
Oct 31, 2003 3:17 pm
So much for chemically treated hair not being period! Check out the Elizabethan costuming page, under "The Painted Face". About halfway down are two...
71921
Tina Paxton
frecs7
Oct 31, 2003 3:18 pm
... Exactly! I wear glasses, can't see without them, can't wear contacts. So, folks will just have to overlook the odd pieces of glass suspended in front of...
71922
sismith42
Oct 31, 2003 3:29 pm
... Greek women would bleach their hair, that it was very fashionable. ... On a similar note: I read somewhere that in the middle ages, they would dye their...
71923
Jeanne
atasteofcreole
Oct 31, 2003 3:52 pm
Ya'll do know that lye was also used to dye hair. Jean Harlow used to use lye, bleach and peroxide to get her signature platinum blonde color. It's amazing...
71924
Jeanne
atasteofcreole
Oct 31, 2003 3:53 pm
And considering the scarcity of ed hair in the gene-pool, I suspect that a lot of those wigs that ladies were wearing (including Elizabeth I towards the latter...
71925
coldwater armourery
coldwaterarm...
Oct 31, 2003 4:44 pm
what is ed hair? lou cwa Jeanne <jeanne@...> wrote: And considering the scarcity of ed hair in the gene-pool, I suspect that a lot of those wigs...
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Oogie McGuire
oogiemcguire
Oct 31, 2003 5:00 pm
... But in the overall human population world wide, red hair, being a recessive allele, is rather rare. Some areas will have a very high percentage but it's a...
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Amanda
dakea
Oct 31, 2003 5:07 pm
So much for chemically treated hair not being period! Check out the Elizabethan costuming page, under "The Painted Face". About halfway down are two...
71928
Amanda
dakea
Oct 31, 2003 5:25 pm
... But in the overall human population world wide, red hair, being a recessive allele, is rather rare. Some areas will have a very high percentage but it's a...
71929
B. Kildow
lightningbug...
Oct 31, 2003 6:05 pm
... Sorry to jump in here. I'm a former SCA member seriously thinking about re-upping and I saw this from "A Survey of Historic Costume" by Phyllis Tortora...
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Shannon Coulter
threeteapots
Oct 31, 2003 6:05 pm
Valerie, did you get my email? Shannon ... From: Valerie Frank [mailto:argenthal@...] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 8:41 PM Brenda, I live in...
71931
admiranda_de_foxerde
admiranda_de...
Oct 31, 2003 10:15 pm
Greetings It does get a bit chilly here in northern Artemesia. I usually wear late 15th century Italian so I layer it on and add heavier sleeves. Currently I...
71932
J.May
jspiritstone
Oct 31, 2003 11:07 pm
Does anyone have docs or pics of Islamic or Mediterranean winter clothing? Samia...
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Fujiwara no Kitsume
starscrossing
Oct 31, 2003 11:33 pm
I really dislike it when people use the old "that's not period" saw as an excuse to be just plain rude. Not period for when? Not period for where? Hair dyes...
71934
Amanda
dakea
Nov 1, 2003 12:42 am
Two weeks ago I learned how to net a tubular snood... From then I developed a pattern for a round snood that looks really nice... and I asked the lady who...
71935
neimhaille
Nov 1, 2003 1:09 am
... though it's coming up to summer for those of us in Lochac, for the feast of St John's in June.. erm... July actually Iwore a dress based on a woman in...
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Susan Farmer
jerusha_kilgore
Nov 1, 2003 1:38 am
I'm starting to take up flat pattern drafting and I have a question. I'm rather chesty -- in fact it's all chest (I look like a boy from the back). Do I still...
71937
Lila Richards
sinechnz
Nov 1, 2003 3:22 am
... blonde ... is ... with ... Well, that's really only an argument for its predominance in your mother's family. If you take Europe as a whole, it's certainly...
71938
kennyeca
Nov 1, 2003 3:26 am
I usually divide the under-bust measure into four to get the side seam placement for the back and use the full bust measure to get from center front to center...
71939
Lila Richards
sinechnz
Nov 1, 2003 3:32 am
... Surely that would only work if you had light coloured hair to start with. (?) Sinech. ________________________ An Fhirinne in aghaidh an tSaoil (The Truth...
