A few costuming links

Oh, dear! Where has the time gone? Sorry to be running so late!

Scientists Find 5,500-Year-Old Preserved Shoe In Cave via NPR

An Overview of Regency Stays/Corsets at the Oregon Regency Society

Costume-Con 29 will be hosted by the Sick Pups, the NJ/NY Chapter of the International Costumers' Guild (ICG).

Thistle Hill Weavers has hard-to-find reproduction fabrics

There's a new issue of Yipe

YIPE! Volume 2, Issue 6, "We'll Take It In A Little," is now available for download at http://www.yipezine.com/

Our June issue has a special focus on the recent Baycon here in Santa Clara:

Our first BayCon tale comes from our good friend Leo Schwab, who writes of his out of costume life as a man everyone accuses of being in costume. The awkwardness is reinforced by Joanne Pelaschier's take on her first ever outing to the San Francisco Bay Area's. um. BayConiest. convention?

Then, right on schedule, España gives the Masquerade system an atomic wedgie and steals its lunch money. Longtime reader and first-time contributor Deborah Bretschneider follows with the tale of "Eat theGuests", BayCon's first attempt at a zombiewalk. or zombie sit, as the case may be.

And, because we're all a bunch of selfish bastards who can't stop talking about ourselves for one instant, Mette puts us back on track with 10 questions for Cosplay goddess and BayCon regular Karisu.

As usual, we're always on the lookout for submissions for the next issue. Drop a line to editors@yipezine.com if you have an article,photos, art, poetry, etc. you'd like to contribute to issue 2.7 for July!

Kevin
http://www.yipezine.com/

More costuming links

The Mourners: Tomb Scultpures from the Court of Burgundy - Sculptures from the 14th and 15th centuries. The views of each statue rotate.

Great slide shows from the Costume Preservation Workshop of the Vasser College Collection:

Black and Gold Beaded Dress – Treatment Report

Brown silk teagown – Treatment Report

Pink/Grey Bustle Ensemble Treatment

Links to Photos from Costume Con 28

Richard Man took many wonderful photos of the costumes at CC28. Enjoy!

http://www.rfman.com/SF-and-Fantasy-Conventions/Costume-Con-28/Friday-Social/

http://www.rfman.com/SF-and-Fantasy-Conventions/Costume-Con-28/Sat-SF/

http://www.rfman.com/SF-and-Fantasy-Conventions/Costume-Con-28/Hall-Costumes

http://www.rfman.com/SF-and-Fantasy-Conventions/Costume-Con-28/Sun-Future-Fashion

http://www.rfman.com/SF-and-Fantasy-Conventions/Costume-Con-28/Sun-Historical

The top level links to all the CC28 photos are
http://www.rfman.com/SF-and-Fantasy-Conventions/Costume-Con-28/

From Richard:
You can buy prints from the site directly. I have set the price to be fairly low: only $2.49 for a 4x6 print.

I will make CD of all the competition photos (web size resolution only, suitable for computer viewing) for $28 including shipping. Just send me a check or use paypal.

from the Vassar College Costume Collection

Someone on one of my costume lists mentioned this very interesting site. *

Students from the Historic Costume Preservation Workshop at Vassar College examine ...

It gives short videos of students examining historic costumes from the Vassar College Costume Collection. Lots of construction details are shown!


* Sorry, I was brainless and deleted the email, or I'd give you credit.

Tartans and costumes

Scotland for the Senses has info about the tartan, and a cool giveaway!

Tartan: The lore, the love (and this month's giveaway)


Kevin Roche announced a new issue of

YIPE!
The Costume Fanzine of Record

December issue of YIPE!

The December issue of YIPE! is now available for download at

http://www.yipezine.com/

32 pages of costuming photos and fun just in time for the holidays.

Interesting links

Five Rivers Books on Smashwords - changes are coming to Five Rivers Publishing

The online costume 'zine
Yipe!
has a new issue with many wonderful photos.

Volume 1, Issue 1 is now available for download (in two resolutions)

Introducing - Yipe!: the Costume Fanzine of Record

I just received an email from the magnificent costumer Kevin Roche:

Yesterday my friend Jason Shachat and I released the first issue of our new online 'zine, YIPE!, dedicated to the art and craft of costume. Our goal was to produce the look and feel of a glossy pictorial magazine in every way but the "printed on paper" part.

You can download the inaugural isue as an Acrobat (PDF) file at http://www.yipezine.com .

Hope you enjoy it; this is definitely a labor of love.
Kevin

P.S. If you have the bandwidth and storage, I recommend you opt for the high-resolution (25M) version. It's really spectacular.

P.P.S. If you are interested in contributing to future issues of YIPE!, contact us at editors@yipezine.com

I just finished reading it, and I'm very impressed. I highly recommend it!