Old dresses and clothes

What a beautiful girl! And the dress is gorgeous, I don't blame her for
enjoying wearing it.
Just sorry I can not be of more help.
Emily

Look at www.costumepage.org

Your daughter looks young to be thinking about college, but I guess
it's not too early to know about it. If I'd known you can get degrees
in costume history, I may have been much more focused in high school!
I'm preparing to get a masters in it from NYU in New York, which is a
more academic-based degree, and FIT in New york offers a more hands-on,
museum oriented degree. There is a degree in Bath, England as well,
though I don't know anything about it.

I heartily reccomend that she joins a good reenacting group that is
focused on authenticity. I found it the most enjoyable way to study
costume. She should also learn to sew, even if by hand (and joining a
reenacting group will bring her into contact with people who can teach
her).

Bring her to museums and teach her that after clothing reaches a
certain age, it becomes more valuable as an historical artifact than as
dress-up clothes.

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Your daughter looks young to be thinking about college, but I guess
it's not too early to know about it. If I'd known you can get degrees
in costume history, I may have been much more focused in high school!
I'm preparing to get a masters in it from NYU in New York, which is a
more academic-based degree, and FIT in New york offers a more hands-on,
museum oriented degree. There is a degree in Bath, England as well,
though I don't know anything about it.

Don't know if her mother would allow her to move to the US or England,
and I don't know whether her father would be that keen on it
either. :-) Anyway, she is fourteen, and in Norway that means another
year in what we call "ground school". At 15/16 one enters next level,
High School? which is three years. Then she is free as the bird. She
is fascinated by history in all variants, and in costume and culture
in particular. Thanks for your tips in any case.


I heartily reccomend that she joins a good reenacting group that is
focused on authenticity. I found it the most enjoyable way to study
costume. She should also learn to sew, even if by hand (and joining a
reenacting group will bring her into contact with people who can teach
her).

Good idea. Must check out further. Got some tips from here already.


Bring her to museums and teach her that after clothing reaches a
certain age, it becomes more valuable as an historical artifact than as
dress-up clothes.

Actually, she brings me, not the other way around.

--
Jon Haugsand
Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway,
http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 85 24 92

The link I previously sent, for the SCA (The Society for Creative
Anachronism) is one of the formost reenacting groups that I know of. It's a
world-wide organization.

Linda


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I heartily reccomend that she joins a good reenacting group that is
focused on authenticity. I found it the most enjoyable way to study
costume. She should also learn to sew, even if by hand (and joining a
reenacting group will bring her into contact with people who can teach
her).

* Linda Sweigart
The link I previously sent, for the SCA (The Society for Creative
Anachronism) is one of the formost reenacting groups that I know of. It's a
world-wide organization.

Bookmarked days ago. Thanks.

--
Jon Haugsand
Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway,
http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 85 24 92

Jon Haugsand wrote:
Is anybody here into the making of old dresses and other clothes?
Maybe another forum than r.c.t.sewing would be appropriate? My
daughter is impressively interested in clothes all way from the middle
age up to the WWII. She is, unfortenately, not very found of sewing
machines, and would more like to buy, ... correction, would like /me/
to buy her remade dresses over the Internet. However, I try to put
her into her own makings, and will certainly support her with some
kroner¹ if she does some efforts by herself.

So: Where is the best meeting place for old fashioned and real old
fashioned dresses and crinolines and hoops and so on?

Thanks,

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¹The Norwegian currency (NOK), around NOK 6.41 in one USD.

I've been off line for a couple of days, so am getting to this late. If
your daughter is at all interested in how the stuff is made, let her pop
over to my web site (URL below, and I sell nothing through it), and she
can have a look at how I put together an 18th C style coat for a town
crier, a pair of 1808 era coats for 17th Highland Light Infantrymen, and
how I'm getting on with my Elizabethan court gown project, Phase 1: the
Simplicity Shakespeare in Love gown. After it is complete, I'll be
tackling Margo Anderson's historically correct version... There's
also a diary of how I put together a renfair outfit, now resident
somewhere in the USA...

--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

* Kate Dicey
I've been off line for a couple of days, so am getting to this late.
If your daughter is at all interested in how the stuff is made, let
her pop over to my web site (URL below, and I sell nothing through
it), and she can have a look at how I put together an 18th C style
coat for a town crier, a pair of 1808 era coats for 17th Highland
Light Infantrymen, and how I'm getting on with my Elizabethan court
gown project, Phase 1: the Simplicity Shakespeare in Love gown. After
it is complete, I'll be tackling Margo Anderson's historically correct
version... There's also a diary of how I put together a renfair
outfit, now resident somewhere in the USA...

Thanks, this is nice. Looking into it.

--
Jon Haugsand
Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway,
http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 85 24 92

Jon Haugsand wrote:

* Kate Dicey

I've been off line for a couple of days, so am getting to this late.
If your daughter is at all interested in how the stuff is made, let
her pop over to my web site (URL below, and I sell nothing through
it), and she can have a look at how I put together an 18th C style
coat for a town crier, a pair of 1808 era coats for 17th Highland
Light Infantrymen, and how I'm getting on with my Elizabethan court
gown project, Phase 1: the Simplicity Shakespeare in Love gown. After
it is complete, I'll be tackling Margo Anderson's historically correct
version... There's also a diary of how I put together a renfair
outfit, now resident somewhere in the USA...


Thanks, this is nice. Looking into it.


Here's an excellent site for renaisance fair garb:
http://homepage.mac.com/festive_atty...5/feature.html

--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

Hi,
A lot of the major patterncompanies (simplicity,
http://www.simplicity.com/index.cfm?cat=4 Buttericks
http://www.butterick.com/indexflash.html )have historical style garments in
their costume section, while not all are totally accurate, they are a good
starting point if your daughter wants to make them herself.
This may well be a cheaper option then buying something and it will be made
to fit her. She can choose colours, material and trims that suit
her......Amelia (in Australia)

"Jon Haugsand" wrote in message
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* Linda Sweigart
The link I previously sent, for the SCA (The Society for Creative
Anachronism) is one of the formost reenacting groups that I know of.
It's a
world-wide organization.

Bookmarked days ago. Thanks.

--
Jon Haugsand
Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway,
http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 85 24 92