Comments | hsifeng: RWA Workshop Research

hsifeng

RWA Workshop Research

Jul 02, 2008 08:41

My friend T has asked that I host a 45 minute workshop for her at the Romance Writers of America, Annual Guild meeting in SF on July 30th. Now T is a brilliant garb researcher with a far greater grasp of the periods in question (medieval and renaissance) than I have. She’d been hosting ‘corsets and underwear’ workshops for RWA events for years now ( Read more... )

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dravon July 2 2008, 19:15:23 UTC

I love it! Makes me want to ditch the Costume College to go to the RWA conference. hehe. I also love the idea of the static display. I'm a hands-on learner and people will definitely remember that much better than a purely verbal talk -- besides I would expect that folks will want to pick things up because that knowledge adds to the description, knowing how unwieldy or surprisingly light various pieces might have been. That sort of thing. Anything you're concerned might break... hrm. Depends entirely on whether or not you encourage a hands-on versus a look-but-don't-touch approach to the display. Looking forward to Fort Mac. :-)

hsifeng July 2 2008, 21:04:40 UTC

I am taking a page from A&B's book on setting up the museum at Fort Mac: Static display's rock!

Looking forward to seeing you shortly!

mmcnealy July 3 2008, 19:13:11 UTC

For wedding food and customs, check out the Ozment books, "Flesh & Spirit" and "When Father's ruled"

I won't be able to get to the Augsburg wedding ordinances until sometime in the Fall.

hsifeng July 3 2008, 20:25:48 UTC

Not a problem honey, we are looking into the available information via Ozment - I appreciate the title reference!