The Museum of Costume in Bath FINALLY has some information up about their Jane Austen: Film and Fashion exhibit. With annoyingly small images, but still. It’s better than nothing!
Random Links
One of my favorite movies of all time, My Brilliant Career, is FINALLY out on DVD — (here’s a link to it at Amazon). See my Edwardian movies page (under Costume in Cinema) for a review. YAY!
Revamp Vintage has FINALLY come out with some new designs, and man am I loving them. This 1910s blouse and jumper is SO cute — look at the button detailing on the cuffs! I really may break down and order this 1920s blouse and skirt combo (except for the fear of showing up at Gatsby in *gasp* the same outfit as someone else!) — it’s WAY too cute, and I love the early 1920s silhouette with a natural waistline. HMMMMMMMM (thinking about my current bank balance — oh, it would be SO lovely to have something new to wear to Gatsby with no effort!). Would the wide waistband just swallow me up, tho?
In Case You Haven’t Seen This…
Cross-posted from Jenny La Fleur’s livejournal: some lucky person got to see the Fashion in Film exhibit that is touring on the East Coast, and she took pictures. I love this person, whoever they are.
Report: I Am Not Dead!
I have been, however, sick as the proverbial dog since Wednesday. I know you all know, but there’s nothing worse to a costumer than taking TWO sick days and not be physically able to sew. Okay, I did a tiny bit on my Wings of the Dove dress (post forthcoming), but really nothing in the scope of having TWO DAYS OFF. So in non-fever, nose blowing news…
I’ve added a review of A Very Long Engagement to my 20th c. costume movies page.
I’ve caved and decided I am going to Costume College, where I shall be teaching a class on bodice draping and another on hairstyles of the bustle era.
And Sunday I dragged myself off of the couch (outside? there’s an outside?) to go Costume Academy, which is the GBACG one-day multi-class costume workshop. Attended Margo Anderson’s class on courtly women’s costume in the Elizabethan Era, then had lunch and looked at pretties (we had a dealer’s room this year!) and bought some vintage buttons — bought four (I know, they were expensive!) white satin with a little embroidered black flower 3/4″ vintage 1870s buttons, and five 1″ sorta brass colored will-work-for-Renaissance vintage buttons (I’m thinking I’ll incorporate these into my jeweled-belt-for-which-I-don’t-know-the-name for my Venetian gown) — and THEN taught my class on bustle gowns/overskirt (apron/poufs) draping. The class seemed to go well, in that some people said so afterwards, but I was so sick and out of it that I feel like I was very scattered and uninformative. It’s also SO annoying to try to teach an overview class without being able to have a bazillion images. I brought 11×17 color photocopies, but because of cost could only have about 20 images, when I would have loved to have shown much more (esp. undies, more construction details, etc.). I skipped the last class to return to my proper place on the couch.
And now I have to go back to work today! Whine!
Oompa Doompa!
(That’s the noise I’ve been making lately when I’m excited). FIDM has finally posted photos of their Hollywood 2005 exhibit. ooooooooooooooooooo: The Aviator, Finding Neverland, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Being Julia, De-Lovely, Merchant of Venice, Phantom of the Opera, Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow, Stage Beauty, Vanity Fair, Return of the King. My toes are twinkling! Road trip!
Best of all, some of the costumes are being exhibited right here at FIDM’s San Francisco campus!