Still looking for a person (or people) to fill these positions. Anyone in the GTA, please pass this opportunity onto those you know. Could lead to a more...
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Trim Fairy
trimfairy
Jan 3, 2008 5:55 pm
If I may ask, how did you find out about this place closing? I WISH I lived closer...I'm in Southwestern Florida. Paula McWhirter-Buck <keridwyn_98@...>...
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Sylvia Rognstad
sylrog80303
Jan 4, 2008 3:04 pm
I think I might actually get enough students this year to register for the costume history class I'm supposed to teach. Last year it got cancelled due to low...
9871
~lisa.s
llsturts
Jan 5, 2008 12:24 am
Boy, Syl, have I been there with the low enrollment hassle. So I can sympathize and be happy for you at the same time. These are the three books I teach from: ...
9872
Debbie Lough
debbie_lough
Jan 6, 2008 8:01 pm
I'd second all of these - also the visual history of costume single volume is good (no idea what it's selling for at the moment), depending what you're ...
9873
kjkkthunderstorm
kjkkthunders...
Jan 6, 2008 8:01 pm
Hello. I'd like to have people dressed up in mascot type costumes to ride on a float in our local parade this summer, and thought I'd see if this group could...
9874
lemony68
Jan 6, 2008 8:02 pm
Hi everyone! I'm new here and this is my first post. I have just brought some material after ages of debating for the Marie Antoinette Blue Tricorn dress from...
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haileen77
Jan 6, 2008 8:28 pm
What time period is the class? (Or is it everything?) If it's 20th Century, the "20th Century Fashion by Mendes/de la Haye" is fairly comprehensive (though a...
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Tara Maginnis
thecostumers...
Jan 6, 2008 8:29 pm
This is a general notice to my message boards to let everyone know that I have quit UAF in order to provide caregiver services to a member of my family in...
9877
marian brock-andersen
nightsscarling
Jan 6, 2008 8:51 pm
Does anyone have an idea for how to make a serpent tail that moves back and forth when you walk?? I was thinking of doing pulleys that attach to the legs...
9878
~lisa.s
llsturts
Jan 6, 2008 9:18 pm
I'd be interested in this kind of information too--I'll be costuming "James and the Giant Peach" this spring. ~lisa.s ... -- * llsturtsATgreatlakesDOTnet...
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Paula McWhirter-Buck
keridwyn_98
Jan 7, 2008 12:04 am
you might try this site... http://www.nicodemus.org/fursuit/chairo.php BUT...i'd offer the suggestion of going with a headpiece as shown on the pattern cover...
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Spidra Webster
tattercoat
Jan 7, 2008 12:41 am
... You might try doing what they do to make those wooden moving snakes. They have a leather (or other thick material) strip that functions as the core. Then...
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Amy Gembala
algembala
Jan 7, 2008 2:52 am
Hello all, I have been contracted to do a number of zoot suits for an event in April and am in need of a source for white fabric with red pinstripes and red...
9882
Pierre & Sandy Pettin...
lichaiya
Jan 7, 2008 4:28 am
PVC pipe - in graduated sizes. You need sections of different lengths, with extended tabs on one end. You then drill holes in those tabs, and in the flat...
9883
Pierre & Sandy Pettin...
lichaiya
Jan 7, 2008 4:28 am
If you go with the heads - from a mascot performer - To help with the heat, put one of the small battery-operated personal fans inside the head, near the top....
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Cheryl McCarron
nycfabricfinder
Jan 7, 2008 2:23 pm
Hi Amy, Beckenstein wools in New York on 39th Street carries mostly wool suit fabrics and should be able to send you swatches if you call them. Rosen &...
9885
Sarah P
Alexandreirazputin@...
Jan 7, 2008 2:43 pm
Hi, I've built costumes of this sort and of full body costumes like this for the theatre. Foam is exceedingly hot to wear, and I avoid it wherever I can. For...
9886
Sarah P
Alexandreirazputin@...
Jan 7, 2008 3:16 pm
To address the problem and to answer Lisa's "Peach" query: The leather core is a good idea. Incorporate a technique I used for my "Peach" worm head, and...
9887
marian brock-andersen
nightsscarling
Jan 7, 2008 6:08 pm
I think unfortunatly PVC would be to heavy, the tail would be fom knees to ground and then graduate from their to the tip of the tail, I was thinking of making...
9888
metholhill
Jan 8, 2008 1:14 pm
Hello, I took a look at the photos of the blue dress and it appears to be all one fabric. The tricorn hat can be easily made by purchasing a "base" and you...
9889
gsbse1
Jan 8, 2008 1:48 pm
I need to make 4 enubus heads for Joseph and the technicolar dream coat and am considering using that canned expanding foam and bike helmets. I want the "heads...
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Paula McWhirter-Buck
keridwyn_98
Jan 8, 2008 7:58 pm
i'd try lining the cardboard tube with something...aluminum foil, or whatever will take a shape without shifting while you work. blessings, paula ... "THE TIME...
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cleve hall
mechagothzilla
Jan 8, 2008 9:07 pm
See if you can locate a source for a dense microcel foam called L200 or Microcel (200 pores per square inch) Get it in 1/2 thick sheet. It is light weight ...
9892
cleve hall
mechagothzilla
Jan 8, 2008 9:07 pm
It would take so much of that canned stuff to build up a form and it doesnt foam very consistantly. I would suggest carving it out of a florist block of foam...
9893
marian brock-andersen
nightsscarling
Jan 9, 2008 2:26 pm
L200 thats like a craft foam right? I think I have a link to that someplace on the web. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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lemony68
Jan 9, 2008 11:18 pm
Thanks very much Patricia! I'll let you know how it came out! ... to ... purchasing a ... types ... Antoinette ... and ... material to ... for ... help!...
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gsbse1
Jan 9, 2008 11:18 pm
I had made a smaller one from floral foam to use as a model I hadn't thought to glue it together I used skewers but if elmers would work I could make it large...
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Sylvia Rognstad
sylrog80303
Jan 10, 2008 12:36 am
Has anyone found any local sources for styrofoam wig blocks? I need to make a hat and realize I need s head to pattern it on. I don't have time to order one...
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Paula McWhirter-Buck
keridwyn_98
Jan 10, 2008 3:12 am
we used to sell or give old styrofoam ones away at the costume shop where i used to work....or a wig shop, maybe. i got my canvas ones on ebay...cheap...but...
