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History is My Playground
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Ever wonder what people DO once they've finished making those pretty costumes? Well, I'll show you! Although if I'm out on a road trip, and there's a house museum or National Park historical site on the way, there will be some detours. And I'm happy to share my sewing secrets, if you're interested in coming out and playing dressup, too!
How to Make a Men's Renaissance Doublet
Making a Renaissance costume is so involved, I will do this in multiple parts, in order of appearance!
"Baron Maxwell" from the Carolina Renaissance Festival needs a coffee-colored outfit. I had found a red and brown trim on clearance after Christmas that we liked, but that had to get set aside when they found this gorgeous brown brocade!
The basic doublet is mostly a simple garment - it gets complicated when you add sleeves and decide to get fancy with the details - the peplum in several pieces instead of one continuous one, for example.
I had never tried making spiral sleeves before. OMG, are these fun! I'm a convert. I will have to make some for myself one of these days!
"Baron Maxwell" from the Carolina Renaissance Festival needs a coffee-colored outfit. I had found a red and brown trim on clearance after Christmas that we liked, but that had to get set aside when they found this gorgeous brown brocade!
The basic doublet is mostly a simple garment - it gets complicated when you add sleeves and decide to get fancy with the details - the peplum in several pieces instead of one continuous one, for example.
I had never tried making spiral sleeves before. OMG, are these fun! I'm a convert. I will have to make some for myself one of these days!
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My Costume Collection in Action!
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Thanks to my cousin Sam, who wanted me to do a slideshow of all the costumes I've made. This isn't all of them, but it's a lot, at least. Any of the group costumes, for my dance groups, I did NOT sew them all myself. There were a whole lot of parties in the living room, a whole lot of feeding people coffee and muffins and spaghetti and tacos... and an awful lot of alcohol. Because wine and sewi...
Ohio Village 4th of July
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My favorite place to be for the 4th of July is Ohio Village at the Ohio History Connection in Columbus, Ohio! This is a compilation of TWO years' worth of footage, because I never got around to putting this video together last year... The village is now getting away from First Person interpretation... instead of being in character, costumed interpreters can simply answer visitors' questions dir...
Chicago Motor Club, Downtown Chicago
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Hampton Inn has this fairly affordable hotel tucked around a corner just off the Chicago River! The rooms aren't anything particularly remarkable, but OMG, the lobby is a monument to well-preserved Art Deco architecture! Since it was built in 1929, it's kind of right smack-dab in the center of the style. I wish I would have brought along a flapper dress! But then, I'd really want my picture wit...
Welcome to the Heard Memorial Club House Sedalia, MO
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The ladies who gave me a private tour of their cherished historic home give us a new perspective on old architecture. An old house is more than just a collection of rooms and amazing craftsmanship (yeah, that's one of the things I *love* about architecture!) - it is a piece of history because it is a collection of STORIES. Notice how many stories she tells! And notice how sensitive they are to ...
Six Hours Running Around Philadelphia
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How much can a person see when I've got about 6 hours to detour to Philadelphia? The historic heart of the city is jam-packed with museums and historic sites, so you really need a week to see it all. But I did my best. Do not expect to show up without advance planning and get to see Independence Hall - tickets sell out in advance! But to me, it was far more moving to get to get to see Congress ...
A Visit to Howell Living History Farm
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Horses and sheep and chickens, oh my! Then annual conference for ALHFAM, The Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums was hosted by Howell Living History Farm in Titusville, New Jersey. Just in one day's visit to the farm, there was a vintage base ball game (complete with hot dogs!), wagon rides, spinning demonstrations, a tour of the farmhouse and kitchen garden, visits to...
How to Party Like a Pirate: Highlights from the Queen's Ball
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The Queen City Vintage Dancers have a different queen each year for the spring Queen's Ball (Charlotte is the Queen City, named for Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg: sorry Cincinnati). This year, the queen is Grace O'Malley, the Irish Pirate Queen! Many thanks to the scalawags, buccaneers, freebooters, captains, crews, corsairs, and mermaids who came to dance with us! More thanks to the amazing k...
How to Decode Victorian Women's Clothing
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Thanks to Faith Walker and The Great Bend Museum for having me come and do a detailed explanation of the mysteries of women's clothing! We might have covered a whole lot more territory than only the Victorian era... I think the farthest we went back was the Renaissance, and the farthest forward that came up were dresses made out of feed sacks. These are only the highlights, minus the tangents a...
Rocking it out 1820s style at the Beethoven Ball
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A whole lot of people with a whole lot of serious study behind them put together an evening's event that was seriously a lot of fun! (Did you know Beethoven wrote DANCE MUSIC?) The talent behind this event is kind of like one of those Hollywood movies with a star-studded cast: The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies under the direction of Dr. Erica Buurman hosted the event at the San ...
Get Ready With Me: A Colonial Lady Gets Dressed by Girl Scouts
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Girl Scout Troop 5075 hosted an event that earned attendees their Playing in The Past badge! We talked about how complicated it was for a lady to get dressed in the 1700s, and danced, and demonstrated proper table manners. Thanks to the Girl Scouts of Kentucky Wilderness Road Council for putting together such a fun afternoon! And I'm sorry my phone ran out of storage space before we got to tea....
Packards! The old cars. Not to be confused with PackERS, the Wisconsin football team.
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Warning: This video runs long, because my friend Sean is such a good storyteller! I apologize for all the stories he told me that I *didn't* get to include in here, because I stopped filming or I figured it was time we move on to a different vehicle. I also want to warn about the very poor sound quality. The museum is the old Packard showroom: a big concrete box with no sound padding. Not only ...
Planes, Trains, AND Automobiles! Transportation History at Carillon Historic Park
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When I lived in Dayton, Ohio, I worked at Carillon Historic Park, telling stories about the Wright Brothers (I used to play Katharine Wright! a descendant said they felt like they'd actually met her! Go, me!) and introducing park visitors to any number of things about bicycle history, or aviation research, or other random things. We're going to take a quick tour of a museum that is a collection...
Historic Swedish Colony in Bishop Hill, Illinois
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Historic Swedish Colony in Bishop Hill, Illinois
Caledonian Quadrilles Figure 2 - Easy Victorian Dances
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Caledonian Quadrilles Figure 2 - Easy Victorian Dances
Trap Ball - Easy Colonial Dances for 1776
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Trap Ball - Easy Colonial Dances for 1776
Highlights from the Renaissance Dance at Queen's Gambit
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Highlights from the Renaissance Dance at Queen's Gambit
How to Make an 1824 Ballgown From a Thrift Store Sari
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How to Make an 1824 Ballgown From a Thrift Store Sari
How to Make a 1920s Dress in an Afternoon
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How to Make a 1920s Dress in an Afternoon
Planes, Planes, and more PLANES!!!!! Aviation History at the Air Force Museum
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Planes, Planes, and more PLANES!!!!! Aviation History at the Air Force Museum
Cars, Cars and More Cars! at the Mercedes Benz Museum
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Cars, Cars and More Cars! at the Mercedes Benz Museum
Wurzburg Residenz - UNESCO World Heritage Site and Major Restoration Project!
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Wurzburg Residenz - UNESCO World Heritage Site and Major Restoration Project!
Nathaniel Russell House, Charleston, SC
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Nathaniel Russell House, Charleston, SC
Great work, Jeanette!
@@sweetpeabrown261 thank you!
Ooo that fabric!
Pointless waste of time. It's a great house, and it would have been great to learn something -- anything -- about it.
Girl, what amazing work!!
Aw, thanks!
So talented!! 💕
Thank you! <3
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What a fun evening of dance. The jaunty music was really cool, and with the pirates dancing about it felt like we were in an episode of Our Flag Means Death 😄
Lol! That IS what the evening felt like...
this looks like so much fun! thank you for sharing your knowledge!
It's my great pleasure! Thank you for sharing my love of dressing up with me!
This looks like great fun. I worked at dickens Faire in the 1980’s and fezziwigs Ball was a favorite place to dance between our shows. I’d love to go to a party like this
It was worth the plane trip to go. It was an absolutely magical evening!
A very nice video of a very nice event! Three cheers for Erica, Joan, and Gordon!
Erica is so beautiful in this video! I'm glad everything went great!!
Hip, hip, HOORAY! Hip, hip, HOORAY! Hip, hip, HOORAY!!
Yay! I am inspired to find a sari to work with now!
If you ever find yourself in Chicago, Devon Street has a lot of good shopping. Of course you never know when you won’t find a fabulous sari at a thrift store! Happy hunting!
The crawling under the chair thing it's not weird, it's called a crawling baby or toddler. 😂
Sean is correct. It's a rumble seat because of the greater level of vibration and noise as compared to the backseat of a sedan or 5 passenger coupe . The red *hexagon* in the center of the wheel hub on the earlier Packards and the hubcaps and wheel covers of the later Packards comes from the early days in Warren, Ohio. When a car was assembled and passed the final inspection, the inspector would paint the hexagons red. The station sedan (wagon) you showed was was a "Standard" level and was unchanged from 1948 through 1950 except that some _may_ have been equipped with Packard's Ultramatic transmission. The Ultramatic was close enough to the GM Hydramatic design that Packard was sued by GM for patent infringement. Actually, the nicest thing I have seen written about Ultramatic performance is that it was built "for leisurely acceleration". I bought a 1949 Packard Standard Touring Sedan (4 door) in St, Agatha, Ontario, Canada and drove it to Detroit, Michigan the first night I had it. With Ultramatic and a 288 CID inline 8, but no dash lights, I checked the gauges with a flashlight. Maybe the car was excited to be going home, but it kept sneaking up to 100 mph. People who have ridden in it say it's smoother and more comfortable than a new car. Packard: Ask The Man Who Owns One.
“Leisurely acceleration” lmao!! Thank you so much for confirming the rumble seat, the story about how the red hexagon got started on the hub caps, and your experience owning a Packard!
I really enjoyed the narration that made seeing the Packard much more meaningful than just a car.!
I just shared your comment with Sean, our expert, he just said, "It's not just a CAR - it's a PACKARD!" You can just hear the love in his voice with every sentence he utters about Packards.
@@historyismyplayground1827 Sean is correct again! In a movie set in the 1930s, the lady of the house tells the maid to have the chauffeur bring up the Packard. The other car that gets this treatment is "the Rolls."
Okay so i misspoke at 9:47, I said C pillar but i meant to say B pillar.
Thank you for putting the correction in here! Now I want to know just how many people noticed…or know enough to realize your error.
If the 56 you drove to the museum is yours, I hope the oil pump has been fitted with a steel plate to replace the original pot metal plate. Sometimes, the pot metal plates allowed air to be pulled into the pump. Custom Auto on French Street in Santa Ana, California used to stock replacement steel plates. And, certainly feel free to delete this comment if you feel it inappropriate to the channel. Edit: You may also be interested in the YT video _Packard Returns_ about an effort to start production of an recreation of an early 1930s Packard.
I love the ending! You're right, it was funnier that way.
I figured I might as well share all the messy parts with people…
Such wholesome tutorial❤
I get called wholesome before - which is funny for someone talking about underwear online...
@@historyismyplayground1827 this would be scandalous in the 1860s 🤣
@@manvendrasingh3705 I suppose it depends on the context...
that looks like so much fun and YOU look FABULOUS!
Thank you! It was a LOT of fun. You really should come to dance…. :-D
There are several Sears homes in the Midwest
where is this located?
It would be cheaper to build.
You got some good shots of the museum.
It was so neat to get the backstage tour!
Wow that was a narrow gauge train!
What did they use such narrow gauges for? It seems like the narrower the tracks, the more dangerous they would be....
The dress turned out very nice!
This one was the hardest to make of the 5 dresses I made for the museum, but it's my favorite. Is it because I really like the colors and the cute bow at the neck, or is it because it was the most trouble to make....
I love the green color and the different patterns of the material. Let Marilyn know when you are going to be in Dayton, she has two bags of Vintage Costume Jewelry for you.
Ooooo! Jewelry!
I loved the video, but had a ton of trouble with the narration, as it seems she doesn't have much idea about what she's talking about. I gave it a thumbs up just because of the memories it has stirred up in me of many trips to The United States Air Force Museum. The only thing better than trips to this museum is flying.
I will happily admit I don't know what I'm talking about. Social history, clothing history, dance history, sure. Technology is a hard nope. But that doesn't mean I'm not going to go play in the history museums and post video for those who want to fill in the details. Everyone else is posting stories filling in the gaps: you want to join in? What is your favorite piece of early aviation history?
Bockscar dropped the Fat Man bomb on Nagasaki. You can see Enola Gay at the NASM Udvar-Hazy annex at Dulles. Knowing, as of now, that America remains the only country to have ever employed nuclear weapons in a war still boggles my mind.
Yup. Knowing it is a ticklish subject, I didn't say much. People who know, know. People who want to look it up, now they know more.
The lozenge camo scheme was actually effective in making the D.VII harder to see from the ground. In fact, in WWI, some British planes were painted pink and it was actually better than painting it blue to blend in with the sky.
That's really wild! How does that work....? This is hurting my brain.... I really want to see this concept in action.
Regarding the rotory engines, yes, they used castor oil for lubrication. It was also a total loss system, so the oil was constantly flung out and into the pilot's face. The solution to preventing sudden-onset diarrhea was the scarf. The scarf looks cool, but it was a necesity if the pilot didn't want to make poopy in his pants.
I am never going to see a photo with those sexy aviator's scarves the same way....
AWESOME MUSEUM plan for a day and charger for your phone/camera
You can do the museum in one day!?!?
The correct pronunciation of Mississinewa is Miss-issin-Ewa. Glad you like our little tribute to history along the banks of my childhood home. My youngest son was in the Boy Scouts that goes around the festival and pick up the trash, and the parents watch the gates next to the battle field and directs participants and spectators in the right direction. I personally volunteered several times on Saturday morning at the gate on the south end of the battle ground, love them cannons.
Oops! I was trusting the pronunciation of other Indiana natives. Your "little tribute to history" is one MAJOR event! That takes a LOT of people a lot of work. Which shows.
@@historyismyplayground1827 it looked like perfect weather for you. I remember one year, it rained so hard people were getting stuck in the mud, trash trucks and the trucks that suck out the Porta pottys couldn't get up the hill on the north end of the festival area. But the show went on...lol.
I believe the Focker D7 was multicolored to represent von Richtophen's flying circus squadron.
Thank you for the extra details! Now I get to go look that up…
Nice
Thanks! It was such a treat to get to see this!
Love thank you
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Reminds me of Philadelphia! What a charming place!
You can certainly see a lot in common in architecture in all the 13 colonies.
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Hey you caught my little bow when I came back from the dead at 7:55!
Excellent! Very stylish recovery. Well done, sir!
@@historyismyplayground1827 Haha thank you. Ive been going to this event for the past 5 years and its always a blast. Playing soldier, the rain on Saturday just made the whole event more immersive. 2023 Mississenawa has been the best year for that event!
Make sure any fellow combatants on the field with you get to see their performances, too!
"PromoSM" 😅
You did a wonderful job of capturing the spirit of Mississinewa 1812...thank you, Jeanette!
My pleasure! I didn't know what to expect when I came... what a delightful event!!
Very cool medical stuff.
Medical history is kind of fascinating, and kind of scary. Always makes me glad I live in modern times, with modern medicine...
Very Nice!
Thanks!
This was awesome. Thank you for showing this!
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks! I kept reading about all these hoop skirt horror stories while researching on whether I should get a hoop skirt or just a petticoat.....Now I don't have to worry! You're awesome! ❤😊
Go for it! Hoopskirts are actually a ton of fun to wear.
Yep, 1890 - one of the six states to enter the union during Benjamin Harrison's presidency, lending him the record of most new states admitted! 😁😁😁
Was that mostly coincidence, or did he have something to do with pushing through SIX states?
@@historyismyplayground1827 This is a very good question and, as with anything, there are a number of motivations behind it. The simplest and most obvious response is: emigrants had been traveling west for several decades now, pushing out Native tribes and filling in the land with their own homesteads, then towns, then cities - expedited by the railroads and telegraph. They were ready for statehood. A deeper political explanation as to why six were entered in such a short time span could be explained as a result of the two-party power struggle in Congress. Adding more states which would support your party was a way to gain votes in Congress (this was not by any means a new notion, it was one of several interconnected factors that had led up to the Civil War when each new state threatened to upset the pro/anti-slavery balance) The Republican party had just lost two popular elections in a row, so one could speculate that they were desperate to maintain the control of the executive branch they had enjoyed since Lincoln. There's a decent article by The Atlantic that discuses this..... but the list Ben Harrison as being a senator from *OHIO* so I'm not sure how much I can trust the article for diligent research, and that's why I'm only going to postulate here based on what I already know of the political climate of the time 😅 So...
Nicely done. You do make it look easy, where is the part where the pin cushion gets thrown across the room?
Lol! I used to have a sewing machine that I used to have to threaten... when it was being frustrating, I leaned forward and whispered that we are on the third story, and all I have to do is open the window and gravity test it...funny thing, it always behaved better after we had that little talk.
Somehow you make it seem so easy!
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There is a guy on RUclips that explores abandoned fails apart house like this. To see the restored ones is much more cheerful.
It always breaks my heart to see old houses abandoned and neglected. So much workmanship goes into them, it's horrible to see such artistry ignored and abused.
Thanks for the interesting story!
Thanks for checking it out!
8:12 what an intuitive and brilliant young guide, I bet he knows all of his Presidents.
He actually does, in order, and that surprises himself
@@ianiguana472 He probably has a tendency to ghost his fellow writers in relation to libraries.
@MarkRussel-hh3rt "A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded." - Lemony Snicket
Awww there's no place to put a laughing emoji here...