From: Gretchen Miller Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 18:50:11 -0400 (EDT) Subject: H-Costume Digest, Volume 91, 4/19/94 The Historic Costume List Digest, Volume 91, April 19, 1994 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! (Looking over the topics, I have to say "I wish I lived in San Francisco") --------------------------------------------------------------- Topics: Historic costume/sewing classes (SF Bay area) Waisting away Bio Historic Clothing (1840 - 1860) conference (SF Bay area) Museum storage tour (SF Bay area) Kilt Help Which Threads had the button article? Question: Russian Uniforms late 19th/early 20th C ---------------------------- From: close@lunch.asd.sgi.com (Diane Barlow Close) Subject: Bay Area Classes Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 15:35:05 -0700 (PDT) Douglas Fabrics in Palo Alto is getting into more upscale sewing and into designer sewing and they have two upcoming classes that might be of interest to Bay Area h-costume subscribers. On July 23rd, Sandra Ericson will give a lecture on 1920's and 30's draping techniques. The lecture goes from 1 pm to 2:30 pm that Saturday and costs $20. The following Saturday, July 30th, from 10 am to 3:30 pm, Joyce Falsken is giving a lecture on Renaissance Era clothing. "Learn everything you need to know to bring the past alive by creating authentic-looking Elizabethan clothing from corsets to capes and bodices to bumrolls." [Sounds ambitious to me :-)] Clase Fee $50; necessary supply kit $20. Douglas Fabrics also offers classes in embroidering with beads, creating tassels, and several ribbon and trim classes, including one for hats. -- Diane Close close@lunch.asd.sgi.com I'm at lunch today. :-) ---------------------------- From: WALTER@tandem.physics.upenn.edu Date: Tue, 19 Apr 94 11:57 EDT Subject: waist not I thought you would all get a kick out of this, after this weekend's discussion. I have on my desk the review of the "Waist Not" exhibit which appeared in the New York Times on the 1st of April. The reviewer seems not to have read the catalog, and writes: "What is impressive about the show is its directness....Neither the theme nor the presentation in unnecessarily complex." No "withness" (or witness) is mentioned. It's a very positive review. Karen ---------------------------- From: "Petersen, Judy Admissns" Subject: A lurkers bio Date: Tue, 19 Apr 94 10:55:00 cdt Greetings! I have been lurking for several months now and even though I have nothing to comment on at this time I thought it was time I come out of the sewing room and introduce myself. My name is Judith Petersen and since I do not belong to any groups that require otherwise, that is the name I go by. I was a non-traditional student in college and well into my 50's when I graduated in '92 with a degree in theatre. I cannot remember when I wasn't designing and/or making clothing for paperdolls, then real dolls (I had a "model doll" that was very much like a miniature store mannequin and I spent countless hours designing and making clothing for her) then my children and now do occasional things for friends for special occasions, or historic events. My travels into historic costuming has not been extensive. However, I enjoy reading about and looking at other people's work (see, someone has to be the audience). Of late most of my design has been for theatre and in theatre we create illusion, not necessarily historic accuracy. Here in my part of the midwest we have some SCA, Confederate Reenactors and Fur Trader groups. Some of the costumes are very accurate and some.....well, they lack a lot, but I suspect that is true in any group according to the interest and financial level of the individual. In my everyday life I am secretary for the Director of Admissions at South Dakota State University and am also the Campus Withdrawal Coordinator. I am interested in area history, particularly in the field of clothing. My hobbies are beadwork, knitting, crocheting, cross stitch, tatting and water- color and find that I can combine those loves and skills into some interesting works. Of course, I still design and sew! So, that's me folks. I love the list and I'll just keep reading all the interesting things that go past on the monitor and maybe someday there will be something I can contribute. Judith Petersen (grew up in Texas but LOVE the "frozen northland") ---------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 94 10:13:01 PST From: Laura Mcvay Subject: Announcement of historic clothing (1840-1865) conference Presenting: CLOTHING THE AMERICAN WOMAN (1840-1865) Come and explore with us the wonderful world of women's clothing of the mid-19th century. The weekend course of study on the design and construction of women's garments will include historical overviews, as well as construction techniques. Through slide presentations, lectures, and displays of antique garments the mysteries of everyday dress will be exposed, allowing the attendee to take away with them the knowledge required to accruately recreate period costume. WHEN OCTOBER 15, 16, 1994 WHERE SAN FRANCISCO/OAKLAND BAY BRIDGE HOLIDAY INN, EMERYVILLE, CA Just minutes from all those great fabric stores in San Francisco and Berkeley FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE SEND A SASE TO THE CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS: CLOTHING THE AMERICAN WOMAN C/O LIA ANDERSON AND LAURA MC VAY 5856 College Avenue, Box. 141 Oakland, CA 94618 Alternatively, you can send e-mail to Laura_mcvay@ccm.hf.intel.com (Please indicate whether you can accept Microsoft word files via e-mail.) We are currently looking for a very limited number of invited speakers for this conference. If you are interested, please send e-mail to the above address. Please note your areas of expertise, your publications, your speaking fees, and your approximate expenses to get to this conference. ---------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 94 10:26:49 PDT From: Cindy Subject: Re: The Waistline as Cosmic As for this waistline exhibit, it appears to me to be the plenepotentiary example of the inherent non-apparent clarification of the neo-Sartrean diatribe on the relative non-relevance of unindicated indicator of non-being and somethingness. Hence in a neo-navel culture of heterogeneous omphallic ante-reticularism, I find that the commentary on this show is rather a trite fascistic restatement of the that old capilaist-libertarian tautology: A waist is a terrible thing to mind... The defense rests. Siskel and Ebert give it two thumbs down. RGP ---------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 12:57:17 -0600 (MDT) From: Carol Newby Subject: Re: Kilt Help Re: the Threads Kilt article I have found that I can get copies of Threads articles through our library's interloan program. (As a costume design major I can just say I need it for research - not that they've ever asked) Even if you don't have access to a University library that participates in the library interloan program, check your local library to see if they can help you get it. Carol * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "Unless you are the lead dog, /\_/\ The view is always the same." > < > ^ ^ < source: bumper sticker >(_o_)< U ---------------------------- Date: Tue 19 Apr 1994 13:59 PT From: Catherine.Keegan@EMC2NCAL.IBMMAIL.COM I received the following in the mail yesterday. Folks in the SF Bay Area might be interested: Preservation, Documentation and Public Access of Museum Collections Saturday, May 14, 1994 The Oakland Museum 1000 Oak St., Oakland, CA "This is out chance to see the results of the Oakland Museum's National Endowment for the Humanities grant to document and preserve their North American ethnographic collections. Carey Caldwell, Senior Curator of History at the Oakland Museum will give us a tour of the museum's off-site storage facility to show us how the NEH grant was utelized. This area is not open to the public and will be available to be seen only during this special program. In the afternoon we will have a presentation at the museum by Cathy Mano of the History department, who will show us how the museum has stored the written documentation of its collections on the Argus Computer System and linked it to video disc, creating a public access system in which the museum visitor or researcher may gain easier access to information about the museum's collections. Both the morning and afternoon presentations are a must for teachers, reserarchers, and museum professionals as well as of interest to the museum going public. We will break for a no-host lunch at the museum's cafe between sessions. for more information, contact Susan Tselos at 510/524-4040 Costume Society of America member cost: 11.50 non member cost $17.50 Students $10 Make all checks payable to CSA Western Region V. Mail to Marjorie Dickinson, 2370 Midlothian Dr., Altadena, CA 91001 BEFORE 5/7/94 ---------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 16:32:06 -0500 (CDT) From: JENNIFER CARLSON Subject: Button-making article in "Threads" I picked up the latest copy of "Threads" the other day - my thanks to whomever it was that posted about the sloper article! - and in the letters page read about a recent article they had had on making buttons. One letter said something about historical techniques. So.... 1. Does anyone have the title of the article and the issue number it was in? and 2. Does anyone out there know anything about historical thread-wrapped button making techniques? My specific need is for Elizabethan doublets, but I'll take whatever you've got. Thanks in advance, Jennifer Carlson JLC@vax2.utulsa.edu ---------------------------- From: mikek77831@aol.com Date: Tue, 19 Apr 94 16:25:22 EDT Subject: Russian Uniforms Where can I get Russian uniforms from the era of Czar Nicholas ][? (1894-1917). I'm looking for the sailor's and cossack's uniforms. Thanks. MikeK77831@aol.com ---------------------------- End of Volume 91 -----------------------