Anyone know this book?

[joysdaughter]

I have just been asked for permission to use a picture of the cage crinoline on my web site for a publication in the U.S. It is called "Survey of Historic Costume, Fourth Edition" and is aimed at 2 and 4 year Colleges and Universities. Anybody know this, or know where I can get more info? I'm really thrilled, I think.

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[maudelynn]

not off the top of me head but I will look around and see what I can come up with.

Oh and i would love the pics you mentioned in an email last week.
Thank you for thinking of me. Sometimes his mum doesn't get all the pics but I know she wants to keep them all.

By the Way Happy Mother's Day

[joysdaughter]

Need a "proper" address to pass it on to you. Can you mail me the pic of your dress too? I can't get a decent look from your post.

[maudelynn]

i put a bigger pic in a new lj post
i will take pics of it and the striped 1800s polanaise later in the weekend :)
I will email you the addy. I may end up emailing you his mums addy as i know she missed out on those pics

[joysdaughter]

O.K. that will be better - looking forward to seeing the pics.

Not a problem to send it to his mum. (It's like " I danced with a man who danced with a girl who danced with the Prince of Wales" only it's "I knew a girl who knew a mum whose son was a famous fillum star"!! (Wish it was Pierce Brosnan!!)

[maudelynn]

ps... i posted a pic of my blue ballgown on my journal and would love your ideas on it :)

[sarahbellem]

It sounds as though its this book, which is the one I was using last quarter in my Costume History class. Its not a bad book, and they've made serious improvements on it since I bought the first edition... I have issues with termonology used and the fact that there's some strange omissions in the 3rd edition, such as the mention of foreparts in 16th century clothing (which we know existed) and certain assumptions regarding corsetry in Elizabethan times.

But otherwise it is one of the better "survey" books I've read. You should be proud that they asked to use one of your images! Congratulations! Now I'll have to buy the 4th edition just to show everyone... ;)

[sarahbellem]

"such as the mention of foreparts in 16th century clothing (which we know existed)"

I mean, such as the LACK of mention of foreparts... blah blah blah.

[joysdaughter]

Thank you - that is what I needed to know. I didn't want my stuff in a "rubbish" book, and they will let me credit the person whose pattern I used too - Jean Hunnisett - which I think is important.

[jennylafleur]

Interesting...

I wonder if this is the same thing I was emailed about a few weeks ago. I was approached for use of a picture of my old embroidered pocket. They wanted the picture for inclusion in a PowerPoint® presentation to be published as a supplement to the Survey of Historic Costume, Fourth Edition.

I wasn’t comfortable giving my permission so I told them no. I mean, why want my pic and not a pic of a period pocket (from a museum), unless this is simply a cheap way to get pics. Also the thought of publication in an electronic collection made me a little uneasy. *shrugs* The pocket wasn’t a terribly accurate repro and not an example of my best work anyway.

[joysdaughter]

Yes, it is the same thing. I am happy for them to use it on the teaching aid, as long as it is made clear, and it will be, that it is a copy, and not an original. I don't think it is to actually go in the book as such. I agree, it is a cheap way of getting pix, but if I can get a bit extra publicity for Jean's patterns, well, I feel O.K. about that.

[leiac]

I've got a copy of the second edition. It's not bad, but definately a general survey of clothing. If you want details about specific dates when certain styles were worn in a period, you're probably not going to get the answers you want.

They do have some pretty good pictures of actual garments, but most of them are b&w.

[joysdaughter]

Thank you. Thanks to Jenny la Fleur, I now realise it is the teaching aid that they want my pictures for. As I am a great enthusiast for teaching, I think I am going to say yes - at least that way I know they have something right!!