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Welcome to the main News Flash section of Alley Cat Scratch. Here you'll find a wide variety information on current events and projects. You'll get tips on people, projects and places. Enjoy the exploring!

Costuming!

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FIDM - Aesthetes, Bohemians & Craftsmen: Artistic Dress, 1880s - 1920s

The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising Museum & Galleries jointly present the exhibition with The Gamble House Centennial - The Exhibits are celebrating the avant-garde epoch which propelled fashion out of the Victorian Era and continues to influence designs of today.

"The world of Artistic dress was short-lived and inhabited only by a daring few, but the impression left on the fashion world has endured. Started in mid-19th century England, this form of dress was sparked by influential artists subverting societal norms. They abandoned the traditional clothing of the time for the loose, un-corseted styles of ancient Greece and medieval Europe, which they felt best accentuated the natural beauty of the female body. ..."

FIDM Info

http://www.fidm.edu/resources/museum+galleries for their website and past exhibits.

May 20 - July 2, 2008, 10:00a.m. - 4:00p.m

Tuesday - Sunday.

Free to all

Gamble House Tour Info

http://www.gamblehouse.org/centennial/index.html

April 13 - June 8, 2008, Thus - Sunday - See website for tour times and types as well as pricing

Check:

	Costume Events in LA!
	Halloween in LA

Check the archive for previous eclectic web picks.

Western Costume Spring Cleaning Sale

Western Costume is having a big spring closet cleaning ONE DAY ONLY,
Saturday, May 31. Come early it's going to be a fab yard (er parking
lot) sale. On the website, they've got a video of all kinds of the stuff that they're going to
sell, vintage dresses, uniforms, furry monkey hands, glitter stuff, top
hats... YUM!

Info: http://www.westerncostume.com/springsale08/index.html

	Saturday, May 31, 2008 - 9-5
	Western Costume Parking Lot
	11041 Vanowen St, North Hollywood

Costume Con 26

The party's over!!!!!

	Double Tree Hotel, San Jose, CA
	April 25-28, 2008

Find all masquerade awards: http://www.cc26.info/

Want to know what went on? Check out My Evil Plan Zine

CC26 Photos

Order official photos: http://imagecraft.smugmug.com/

See more photos on the flicker group

More photos:

Kevin Standlee

Please note... they are have problems with spam filters and e-mail's ending in ".info", if you are trying to contact anyone, check the website for the new ".org" addresses!

Future Fashion Folio Deadline

Costume Con 27

All the rules are listed <here> .

Deadline is October 1, 2008

Special categories:

VAMPIRES, VILLAINS, and VIXENS (sponsored by Ricky and Karen Dick): can be your interpretations of these archetypes here on Earth, or on some distant planet. Do your own interpretation of costumes from your favorite genre book or movie featuring these types of characters, or make up clothing from a culture of your own invention.

Do you need blank fashion figures to draw your designs?

Make you plans for Baltimore, MD in May, 2009

Costume Con 28

Milwaukee in 2010

Costume Con 29

Bid won by the New York/ New Jersey Costumer's Guild. Stay tuned for info.

Star Trek The Tour

Forty years of imagination, artistry and meticulous craftsmanship that together have made the Star Trek legacy history. This is the largest collection of artifacts, sets and information ever put on public display. A large array of exhibits, featuring sets, costumes, museum pieces and props from all five Star Trek television series and ten Star Trek feature films. Check out the virtual tour description,

Detailed tour description,

	Tour will also visit aprox 20 other North American cities over the next 5 years.
	Info: www.StarTrekTheTour.com

International Costumer's Guild Photo Archive

Check out the on-line archives of the International Costumers Guild. At its core is the Pat & Peggy Kennedy Memorial Library – a storehouse of photographs, video and paper ephemera spanning 70+ years of Science Fiction costuming. Also included are accumulated images from Wearable Arts and performance arts events, Living History and other showcases for creativity.

Interesting new-ish websites we're highlighting

Tudor costume & effigies database

The Tudor Effigies Database has had a whole set of new images added. Great for solid research on 16th century costume.

The Tutor Tailor

The Tudor Tailor: reconstructing 16th century dress, to be published in spring 2006. A sourcebook for accurately reconstructing clothing from the 16th century, concentrating on the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I (1509 to 1603).

Costume Plot Database

Sponsored by a grant from the USITT Commissioner's Fund, the website is a database of
information about plays searchable by several different parameters including title, playwright, period, genre, cast size, and number of costumes. ... the user can browse the database and sort the information by date added, frequency of reference, title, playwright, year published, period, and genre. Each play has a page dedicated to it which contains more detailed information such as a basic plot description, a specific character breakdown, quick change notes, and any special costuming considerations dictated by the script.

Movie Costume Study & King Kong Costume now online

Alley Cat Scratch is opening a new section - Movie Costume Study

This section will the new entry point to coordinate all of the movie and exhibit studies

We are also opening a new costume study - King Kong Costume

Current emphasis is on the 2005 Peter Jackson movie but we're expanding. Come play with us. These are easy but elegant costumes to play with.

F-Costume Discussion List at it's new address

F-Costume has moved to a yahoo group. Come join us for talk on Fantasy and Science Fiction costuming. We are there for research and to share our love of costuming. This is a how-to and discussion group, so you're safe from the sale adds.

Join our group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/F-Costume/ .

If your own website lists links to F-Costume... please update the link to the new address.

Harry Potter Costuming - Web research site

Robes for all Occasions is now open. Learn Harry Potter Costume details and construction tips.

We wish them luck on this new venture. Their research and information site now joins similar ones for Star Wars costumes and Lord of the Rings costumes.

Movie Costume Exhibits

We've started a new section, pictures and links for costumes exhibits. For now it's going to be a bit heavy towards movie costumes, but we're interested in all kinds.

Tolkien Forever's Web site

Want to keep up with LOTR Events in California??? A lot of the events that Tolkien Forever participates in are Costumed. Their web site provides links to their yahoo group and calendar.

	Group chat and organizing events: http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/Tolkien_Forever/
	3rd Tuesday dinner in Pasadena: http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/PasLOTRMeet_Up/

AlterYears has moved

The building that AlterYears has been renting will be torn down. They have switched addresses and methods of shopping. Check the notes on their website.

What ya want to do this weekend?

Check out <Events> for year round fun.

	All kinds of things from museums to shopping. This is a very busy time of the year
	Ren-faire season has started. There's something almost every weekend. Major Con's coming up.

Costume Classes on the web

Fixed start dates:

Fall-Winter Classes

Costume Classroom: http://www.costumeclassroom.com

see self paced classes below

Pattern Review - Classes:

They run about 4 different classes at a time, check their list for their latest technique classes

Self Paced Classes

The Costume Classroom has switched over to a semester system. You may take start classes and work at your own rate though the semester.

Info: http://www.costumeclassroom.com

	Check out their wonderful list of historical costume classes and sewing technique classes.
	Some classes are date specific, but may you can join and do as you have time.

Ongoing Classes

(A couple of good websites on sewing have vanished, if you find good classes on line, please write us.)

More classes, including distance learning and college credit courses:

http://www.costumes.org/subwebs/uafcostumeshop/pages/classes.htm

If you know of other costuming classes on the web, please write so we can include the information..

Lord of the Rings Costume Discussion

Lord of the Rings has magnificent costumes... and there's been lots of comments about them on many boards... so a new discussion group devoted to just the LOTR costumes has starting on Yahoo.

Just click, and follow the instructions:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LOTR_Costume/

Also check out LOTR Costume Website

We are having a grand time. Open to people of all skills levels. Everything from just talking about the costumes to recreation details like fabric and patterns.

Alley Cat Scratch is hosting a web of resources to go with the costume discussions. It is a research style web so always changing. We've compiled what we thing are a very good set of links for the costumes: http://www.alleycatscratch.com/lotr/.

Otherwise know as... where all my web development time is going right now

Quick Info

Science Fiction Masquerade have their own page

Both the Events and Los Angeles Garment District section are now open

Please feel free to let us know about other items.

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