1.  sheliesshattered said: Fwiw, I’ve had good luck with using both iDye and iDyePoly together, in similar colors (Violet and Purple in my case, iirc) on a cotton-poly blend fabric. Just tossed both packets in the washing machine with the fabric, turned out great.

Yeah, I’ve done similar with other fabric mixes but it does depend on how the mix of fibres is made up and sometimes on the existing colour and dye interactions.

If it’s in the yarn and twisted together you can get patches of higher or lower poly: cotton ratios- like in sheeting. You can even feel that at times. It can lead to some blotchyness even if the dye is even.

If it is in the weave (two yarns twisted/shuttled or whole warp/weft blocks) then you can get some super funky shot effects. My silk/cotton mix brocade for my Spanish gown I suspect has a cotton core (weft) and silk faced warp, but the cotton still pills if I try and wash by hand.

Anyway, depending on how very specific you want a colour is how easy it is going to be to dye.

Actually with Teatime 🙂 Not so much an issue but the description in the book suggested less obvious creepy. Visually perfect, or a perfect! But Teatime to me always felt like he should have a very light facade so that when he agrees that perhaps his methods weren’t polite and he’d try harder that it comes across as very disconcerting. 

It’s been a while since I watched any Discworld adaptations because it’s been a while since my portable dvd player has worked.

Sure 🙂 iDye Poly works incredibly well on Polyester, however it doesn’t work on cotton. Idye (regular) works really well on cotton but not on polyester, so it’s going to be a bit of a risk to try. I just yesterday.. the day before… recently dug out some netting I dyed with iDye poly so I can show you what it can do 🙂 Photos and possibly video depending on how easy it is to focus on this netting 🙂
I’m a big fan of the stuff, though most of my dyeing has been with Dylon before they changed.

Sure 🙂 iDye Poly works incredibly well on Polyester, however it doesn’t work on cotton. Idye (regular) works really well on cotton but not on polyester, so it’s going to be a bit of a risk to try. I just yesterday.. the day before… recently dug out some netting I dyed with iDye poly so I can show you what it can do 🙂 Photos and possibly video depending on how easy it is to focus on this netting 🙂
I’m a big fan of the stuff, though most of my dyeing has been with Dylon before they changed.

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.

littlemissmetamorph:

waistedlives:

lucy-corsetry:

nursingschooljournal:

Le Corset by Ludovic O’Followell.

In 1908, a French doctor, Ludovic O’Followell, used x-ray radiography, a medical technology that at the time was still in its infancy, to demonstrate the potential health detriments of the corset.

A picture speaks a million words. His radiographs showed how the metal enforced corsets squashed ribs cages, restricted breathing, and displaced organs downwards.

His work, along with other physicians, helped usher a new focus on flexible and comfortable corsetry and clothing design.

Except not. Please learn French and read the actual article before making claims based solely on photographs.
http://lucycorsetry.com/2013/06/27/x-rays-from-le-corset-1908-explained/

Lucy prevails again!

Reblogging to show these few pictures do not give a full story on corseting and how it effects the body  (both positively and negatively if worn wrong or cheaply made). Read Lucy’s blog, she really knows her stuff <3

Another good author is Valerie Steele. She has managed to debunk a lot of myths by finding the original sources used in various publications. 

Actually also Alison Gernshein in her book on Victorian fashions (reprinted by Dover as Fashion and Reality or Victorian Fashion in Photos, sorry I don’t have it handy) also does a fair bit to shed light on reality.

Girls would indeed by 18” corsets but they were not just left open the 2-4” wide most corsets were (this is as much to make sure you do not have any steels pressing on your spine as it is to allow for adjustments) but would have to have them open say 6 inches. That’s no longer an 18” waist, though you could technically brag about wearing an 18” corset…

One of the two also discusses the use of bodies donated to science in the Smithsonium(?) to “prove” how corsets deformed bodies. In fact these may well have had congenital defects as they were not of a “class” liable to be trying to achieve a hyper-idealised wasp waist. 

Sadly with my RA and HMS related issues I can’t wear anything that puts any pressure around my lower ribs. I can pop that cartilage fairly easily by hand. And have a much lower tolerance for any pressure around there even with simply a wide elastic belt. I can wear my Satine and Effigy stays now because they are slightly too big- enough to reduce pressure but not to put weird pressure in weird spots.

operafantomet:

I haven’t tried out any wigs myself. I have long, semi dark hair and I do my best to try and curl and/or style it when I dress up. But one person looking for the frizzier 80s look of the wigs went for Amphigory’s “Diana” wig: 

http://operafantomet.tumblr.com/post/56951230740/to-the-anon-who-asked-about-a-wig-resembling-the

I think either that style or the looser London ones (think Sierra Boggess in the RAH concert) will be easiest to replicate. 

If you wanna curl your own hair, you can make the bottom layers larger and more wavy, and the top layers more curly. The hard part is the small ringlets around the forehead (I’ve never done those) and to twist/curve the front hair over the temples in a nice way. You can see some stage stylings here: 

http://operafantomet.tumblr.com/post/50590549606/as-requested-christine-wigs-or-a-small-selection

To get actual matte frizz rather than the shine of most wigs, because let’s face it no one wants a wig that looks like a bad perm job, I coloured a mid brown wig with acrylic ink to knock out the shine and add shades of colour then put it all up in perm rods and poured boiling water over it.

In a wig not designed for heat styling this will result in the fibres kinking in tiny tiny natural waves and also take on the curl of the perm rod. 

My wig is totally unsuitable for any other costume now, but it is the perfect early semi loose but frizztastic wigs. Photos soon but right now I need to get photos of all the projects I am passing on as well as my in progress Phantom costumes 🙂 Am a bit excited about it all 🙂

operafantomet:

I haven’t tried out any wigs myself. I have long, semi dark hair and I do my best to try and curl and/or style it when I dress up. But one person looking for the frizzier 80s look of the wigs went for Amphigory’s “Diana” wig: 

http://operafantomet.tumblr.com/post/56951230740/to-the-anon-who-asked-about-a-wig-resembling-the

I think either that style or the looser London ones (think Sierra Boggess in the RAH concert) will be easiest to replicate. 

If you wanna curl your own hair, you can make the bottom layers larger and more wavy, and the top layers more curly. The hard part is the small ringlets around the forehead (I’ve never done those) and to twist/curve the front hair over the temples in a nice way. You can see some stage stylings here: 

http://operafantomet.tumblr.com/post/50590549606/as-requested-christine-wigs-or-a-small-selection

To get actual matte frizz rather than the shine of most wigs, because let’s face it no one wants a wig that looks like a bad perm job, I coloured a mid brown wig with acrylic ink to knock out the shine and add shades of colour then put it all up in perm rods and poured boiling water over it.

In a wig not designed for heat styling this will result in the fibres kinking in tiny tiny natural waves and also take on the curl of the perm rod. 

My wig is totally unsuitable for any other costume now, but it is the perfect early semi loose but frizztastic wigs. Photos soon but right now I need to get photos of all the projects I am passing on as well as my in progress Phantom costumes 🙂 Am a bit excited about it all 🙂

operafantomet:

“Phantom of the Opera” got one really scratchy review on Broadway, from Frank Rich in New York Times. He based his review on one of the preview performances on Broadway, and not the actual premiere. Andrew Lloyd Webber felt this was really unfair, and THIS REVIEW ALONE has made ALW think POTO got bad reviews when it opened (as I said previously, selective memory).

But as mentioned previously, POTO got good reviews when it opened, some mildly positive, some raving reviews. Headlines such as “God’s gift to musical theatre”, “It’s fantastic, fabulous and phantasmagorical” and “Grand ‘Opera’” doesn’t exactly indicate butchering, does it? Original reviews can be read here: 

http://desertedphans.forumotion.net/t442-original-reviews-london-1986-broadway-1988

What the documentary refers to, I think, is the many articles and the general press coverage focusing on the relationship between Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sarah Brightman, on backstage “scandals” and on things going wrong. This press coverage was negative and catty, at least it felt that way for the people involved, and the BBC documentary comments on this. Ironically they’re doing the exact same thing themselves when mentioning ALW/Brightman and the road leading up to the premiere… 

Back in my uni days when I had access to old journals I did in fact photocopy every single review including reviews for the soundtrack. There were quite a few negative or neutral reviews. I have in the last three days unearthed them all (very lucky I have been on the throwing away spree and even things I love got binned!) so I should be able to track down the online versions or start a scannin’ and a tumblin’ because I really did have access to an incredible number of theatre and trade journals. In fact I have some great but really badly corroded images of the first photoshoot where Michael still had the white lens and you can clearly see the hooks up the front of Sarah’s wedding gown.

Crap, those storage containers are heavy and I am bruised but I do have a big resurgence of interest in the old Phantom days now that my Hannibal gown of ridiculous bling is nearing completion (it is my Christmas day craft project because it is like a disco ball crashed into a CHristmas tree). So I will get scanning. I think that stash may now be mixed in with my Uni notes (I found my immunology course marks and I did ace the final in course test so [galinda]yessss[/galinda] I was right about us going from fails to passes due to the course getting a bit of a tweak in the middle. Ask me about IgA and IgG now and I may get a bit confused though….

Anyway, point is I know where the stuff is it is a matter of aligning heavy boxes with my health and scanners and my netbook. Or maybe just get good photos. Hmmm…

It has been a while since I read all these articles and reviews but I have them from the West End and B’way openings. And I referenced them all in my 1997 NASDA project. I are nerd. But I got top marks even in a school that looked down on commercial theatre. [galinda]yesss[/galinda]