Re: Walking Stick workshop
(in Dickens Fair Folk)
Damn...
Wish this was LAST fair, when I was actually commuting up from LA for most of it...
And had access to research info on 19th century "Shillelagh Law," which could be viewed as the common man's answer to all this high-toned "Defensive...
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discussion post on Sat, November 21, 2009 - 9:13 PM
Re: There is not enough stuff on this bonnet!
(in What to wear to the Dickens fair!)
What *kind* of bird?
I'm thinking either a bluebird or a robin...
discussion post on Fri, November 13, 2009 - 12:05 AM
Re: Photos of Lower Classes - Vests
(in What to wear to the Dickens fair!)
If I was going with a striped shirt, I'd make sure that the stripe was a woven rather than printed stripe. Oh, and checked shirts in a smallish woven check (3/4 inch squares or less, no Italian tablecloths) are also dandy. While some cotton cal...
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discussion post on Tue, November 3, 2009 - 1:19 PM
Re: Photos of Lower Classes - Vests
(in What to wear to the Dickens fair!)
Tough to come by pictures of the lower orders from the Dickens era, as photography was in its infancy, mostly a middle- and upper-class fashion, and rarely unposed (which means you don't get to see the backs of garments) but the unsmiling faces of...
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discussion post on Mon, November 2, 2009 - 4:10 PM
Re: Feedback
(in Dickens Fair Cockneys)
Coo luv,
1) A select few
2) Chance to practice and dialog with others... Perhaps valuable would be some "character questions" on the old St. George rehearsal model: form a circle (or around the table) throw a Cockney question to class memb...
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discussion post on Tue, October 20, 2009 - 10:23 AM