From: Gretchen Miller Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1993 13:53:44 -0500 (EST) Subject: H-Costume Digest, Volume 16, 12/10/93 The Historic Costume List Digest, Volume 16, December 10, 1993 Send items for the list to h-costume@andrew.cmu.edu (or reply to this message). Send subscription/deletion requests and inquiries to h-costume-request@andrew.cmu.edu For archives of this digest, send mail to close@lunch.asd.sgi.com Thanks and Enjoy! --------------------------------------------------------------- Topics: Ordering "After A Fashion" Questions and answers about LaVolta Press Biography ----------------------------------- Date: Wed, 8 Dec 93 17:52:30 PST From: aterry@Teknowledge.COM (Allan Terry) Subject: New book on making historic costumes My book After a Fashion: How to Reproduce, Restore, and Wear Vintage Styles has just been published. About half focuses on reproducing historic styles from medieval through Art Deco. The other half focuses on buying, restoring, and altering vintage clothes from Victorian through Art Deco. Both men's and women's clothes are discussed. The step-by-step instructions are suitable for beginning to advanced sewers. The book was written specifically for performers and others who make their own costumes. The book's vital statistics are: After a Fashion: How to Reproduce, Restore, and Wear Vintage Styles by Frances Grimble 8 1/2" X 11" quality paperback 352 pages 147 line drawings by Folkwear cover artist Deborah Kuhn Bibliography, resource list, metric conversion table, index Copies available: Now ISBN: 0-9636517-0-6 Publisher: Lavolta Press, 20 Meadowbrook Drive, San Francisco, CA 94132 Price: $35 + sales tax for CA residents + $3 shipping After a Fashion is now available by mail from Lavolta Press. Fran Grimble ----------------------------------- From: J.A.Bray@bnr.co.uk Date: Thu, 9 Dec 93 17:45:06 GMT Subject: ordering Lavolta press books The book "After a fashion" sounded interesting so I rang international enquiries so I could find a number to talk to Lavolta Press about mail order from England. San Francisco directory enquiries had no listing for Lavolta Press. Is this a small outfit with no business line or did I get the name wrong? Anyone know how I'd set about ordering from the U.K.? (If I go through a U.K. bookshop tyhe book travels surface as part of a bulk order and could take up to SIX MONTHS to get here!) Jennifer ------------------------------------------ From: kimk@ichips.intel.com Subject: Lavolta Press Date: Thu, 09 Dec 93 11:02:48 -0800 I also tried calling the assistance in San Francisco and found no listing for Lavolta Press. I tried from Oregon thinking it may be different from in the U.S.... :-) it wasn't. Any news would also be greatly appreciated. Kim --------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1993 11:55:24 -0800 From: cep@taligent.com (Christophe Pettus) Subject: Book orders ... I can probably be persuaded to handle some UK orders, since I have a checking account maintained in Pounds, and thus can deposit UK checks without a conversion fee. Since I live in SF, I'll see if I can find a way to contact the publisher directly. -- C ----------------------------------------- From: Gregory Stapleton Date: Thu, 9 Dec 93 15:29:03 TZ Subject: RE: Lavolta Press Phone Number Lavolta Press (415) 566-6259 -------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 9 Dec 93 18:43:21 PST From: aterry@Teknowledge.COM (Allan Terry) Subject: Lavolta Press phone Lavolta Press accepts only mail orders, not phone. The address is: Lavolta Press 20 Meadowbrook Drive San Francisco, CA 94132 Orders are to be prepaid by personal check, cashier's check, or money order in U.S. dollars. Normal shipping is book post and costs $3 for the first book, $1.50 for each subsequent book. Foreign shipping is 50% more. ------------------------------------------- From: Martha Stanley Subject: Unlurking-bio Date: Fri, 10 Dec 93 7:43:48 EST Hello, all and a big thanks to Diane and Gretchen for the amazing time spent on maintaining this list! I got into this by hanging around the alt.sew board . On and off for years, I have sewn, mostly when I was feeling cheap. Just lately however, I've been enjoying the creative aspects of sewing. I think this has been fostered because of my job. I teach music and performing arts to gifted kids in Tallahassee, Florida (you know , home of the NOLES!) I decided to offer a semester of instruction to my middle schoolers of "how to be a costume designer" and boy, did I have to hit the books. About the time I was deep into it, this list started and I'm officially hooked now. My hats off to all you folks who do the costume designing for theaters and reenactment groups. It is so fascinating! My students have discovered that too. They had to pick a play or story, discover or invent a time period, do a character analysis, select a color palette, research for historically accurate styles, and design costumes for at least three of the characters. Then they had to build the costuems in miniature. Some chose cloth, some used paper. Then they had to do a written report outlining the processes used, a bibliography, and what they learned. THEN. each gave an oral presentation to the class explaining what they learned, telling about the costumes (material, names of parts ...doublet, rufff, etc.)and any little interesting things they learned along the way. I have enjoyed listening to kids -over and over- say they had no idea how hard and involved thosed pretty clothes in the movies were! Many said they'll never be able to see another pla/yperformance without noting the palette used, the time period and how involved the costumes are. A couple of students have decided to pursue this activity more extensively. And I really got tickled with one young lady who did a superb job on the whole task, who admitted that she really enjoyed doing the project and one thing she learned was that there was NO WAY she was going to be a costume designer! Now, a question: one of my young-uns asked me if I knew what happens to the costumes in TV and films after they're used. Perhaps some of you fine folks can help me out here. Claire is seriously pursuing costume design as a career and I want to support her efforts. Love this (almost) newsgroup! ------------------------End of Volume 16-----------------------------