I am 17 and am looking foward to prom. I'm going to make my own dress and I am wondering of you guys have any tips about sewing with fur. When I searched on...
Nora, You might want to join the email list for the USITT designers.... theater designers. They have sewn with all kinds of materials. Go to yahoogroups and...
Once again I have gone camera crazy at the annual Dickens on the Strand festival in Galveston, TX. Many photos of both good and bad costumes are posted at: ...
Thanks for sharing this! I always look forward to browsing your photo galleries. Some of the costumes are amazing, and some of them make me wonder...............
Karen please please please remain snap happy with the camera! what the dickens where some of them thinking. :) :) :) so long as they were having fun for the...
Love the photos! We have a 'Dickens of a Christmas' festival every December where all vendors and participants must be in costume. But since we are in north...
Hi Nora, There is a Time-Life series of books, available at most public libraries. One of them is called "Novel Materials" or "Sewing with Novel Materials"....
Come and join us, to either vend your wares, or celebrate as the Barony of Bright Hills begins its second decade. We will have numerous A&S activities;...
... theater ... yahoogroups ... I can't find "costumeinfo" on a Yahoogroups search; what is the official name of the list? As for furs, I have been really...
Been up way to long working on a surprise for our online Library... been working about 14 hours straight. So I will pass along to the list our website...
DATE: Feb 12, 2005 As the Barony of Bright Hills, guardian of the Northern Border of Atlantia, ends our first decade and prepares for the next, we invite you...
Greetings, I thought you folks might want to know about a good resource for vintage/retro sewing patterns. http://www.oldpatterns.com I am also offering Free...
I still can't believe how this has changed my financial life! Several weeks ago I read a message that provided a link to: http://www.wrldofproduct.com I...
I have started a photo album in the sewinghistoric group site with pictures of some of the first costumes I have completed. I used lots of duponi and shantung...
In a message dated 1/27/2005 5:25:18 A.M. Central Standard Time, sewinghistoric@yahoogroups.com writes: What is everyone else working on? Perhaps one of you...
My apologies to those on multiple lists. The 11th Annual Ladies & Gentlemen of the 1860s Conference is just five weeks away. We’ve planned a full program of...
Loved your pictures! Actually, I'm not working on anything right now, so I'm not much "inspiration." However, I was intrigued by your comment about going back...
I am a Chief Mate in merchant marines. That means that I always have my own room so I tend to bring a lot with me. If I meet the ship in my home port, I take...
hello everyone, i hope you are all well, im pippa hess from wiltshire england and i am a dress designer and developer of dresses, i deal mainly in historic...
hi -- i've been working the past two years on some multi-cultural dolls for the head start program i work for -- we tie them in to a different cultural...
Hello all. My son's 12th grade english class is doing a skit of The cantabury Tales. He is in need of some modern day clothing, but something that would look...
hi all, at the moment ive stopped work to take a break, as im in the middle of constructing an inflatable crinoline dress of 1856, and its putting me up the...
hi im pip and i am in the middle of making an inflatable crinoline wedding dress for a customer, ive just done a wedding today, and it rained like heck,now im...
We have a new instructor, Danielle Nunn-Weinburg, at the Costume Classroom, www.costumeclassroom.com . Danielle is a doctoral candidate at the University of...
Hello Everyone, COSTUME CLASSROOM www.costumeclassroom.com We have some new classes starting in April and May. Two classes are taught by our new instructor,...
I have listed more vintage 20/30's patterns. Back by popular demand! If you just go to this link and then click on View All Sellers Items it will take you to...
Sorry for the cross post. I just finished posting my photographs from the San Jacinto (Texas revolution) reenactment. The weather was beautiful and there...
