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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! |
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Costume Con Information
Costume Con is a fabulous convention for meeting with costumes in a great
mixed setting of learning and competitions.
Read more about Costume Con, it's history at
http://www.costume-con.com/
See pictures of past Costume Cons at:
| Future Fashion Folio Design Contest now open
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| Red Lion Denver SE, Denver CP |
| May 17-20, 2013
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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. |
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| 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). |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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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
http://community.livejournal.com/hp_costuming/
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.
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.
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.
| 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. |
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Costume Classes
on the web
Fixed start dates:
| Fall-Winter Classes
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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. |
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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:
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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.
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| 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
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| Information on all the Costume-Cons - status, pictures, winners, etc. |
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