08-21-2003, 03:46 PM
Salve tibi!<br>
Good to hear from you.<br>
One of the things Norma, Judith and I discussed at length in Buffalo was the expense and difficulty in obtaining suitable fabric, even the right fiber in modern fabric stores can be dead wrong. Anyway, they both admired my intention to reconstruct garments using only wool, cotton, linen, and silk, even if the results weren't perfect. Believe me, they inspected our stuff with trained fingers, and I breathed a great sigh of relief when they approved. I lucked out years ago with the Italian wool I ordered from Italy (redundancy intentional) for my Imperial toga, but my newer stuff (Republic, Ara Pacis etc) came from a chain fabric store and the difference is both visible and tactile. Judith especially admired our attempts at dyeing with natual dyes. I try to keep it authentic as possible. I think Norma, Larissa, andJudith are going to use some of my pictures (of myself-togate at the Colosseum- and my female model in her stunning peplum). I still feel a little like bragging because mine is the first wool toga they have seen. They are revising some of their text (so they said) because of my thesis that the weight of garment borne on the left arm trained the citizen soldier for future duty and reinforced the behavior of citizenship. That's the crux of my presentation anyway. Anyway (ahem) I'm searching for a good cobbler/bootmaker because mine has graduated and absconded with the leather. My senatorial calcei need to be replaced. Do you know of anyone on your side of the world?<br>
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Togaman <p></p><i></i>
Good to hear from you.<br>
One of the things Norma, Judith and I discussed at length in Buffalo was the expense and difficulty in obtaining suitable fabric, even the right fiber in modern fabric stores can be dead wrong. Anyway, they both admired my intention to reconstruct garments using only wool, cotton, linen, and silk, even if the results weren't perfect. Believe me, they inspected our stuff with trained fingers, and I breathed a great sigh of relief when they approved. I lucked out years ago with the Italian wool I ordered from Italy (redundancy intentional) for my Imperial toga, but my newer stuff (Republic, Ara Pacis etc) came from a chain fabric store and the difference is both visible and tactile. Judith especially admired our attempts at dyeing with natual dyes. I try to keep it authentic as possible. I think Norma, Larissa, andJudith are going to use some of my pictures (of myself-togate at the Colosseum- and my female model in her stunning peplum). I still feel a little like bragging because mine is the first wool toga they have seen. They are revising some of their text (so they said) because of my thesis that the weight of garment borne on the left arm trained the citizen soldier for future duty and reinforced the behavior of citizenship. That's the crux of my presentation anyway. Anyway (ahem) I'm searching for a good cobbler/bootmaker because mine has graduated and absconded with the leather. My senatorial calcei need to be replaced. Do you know of anyone on your side of the world?<br>
<br>
Togaman <p></p><i></i>
