CATS and COSTUMES and DOLLS

 

                                   QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

 

On this page I have wrote down some questions I have got from some of the people I have been in

contact with and I also try to answer those questions as good as I can.

There are also some questions on this page that I have thought about myself and want to answer them too.

 

 

Question: Can you come for fittings?

 

Answer: No. I live in Sweden and cannot travel just for that. I have taken my measurements with the help

of a seamstress so they are “real”. I have send them before to people who I have make orders with and

there has been no problem. I don´t think there should be any problem. If you just trust me we can make

many good business times together.

 

 

Question: Can´t you make the dresses for yourself?

 

Answer: I don´t have the time to do it. If I had the time I can´t take the risk of ruin a fabric. I know that I

can sew if there is someone with me so I can ask if I need any help.

I have make one dress earlier for a child on my “work”, and a new one is coming, but those dresses are not

as the ones I want to have in my collection.  

This is the first dress I have made. I needed a lot of help when I made this so I am not ready to make any

of my favourite dresses by my own yet. Maybe in the future…..

I will have photos of the other dress too, but it is not finished yet. 

 

 

Question: How about copyright? Isn´t there any copyright on movie dresses?

 

Answer: I have believed before that it was impossible to make copies of the dresses in movies. I have heard

about copyright before. Then I decided to search on the internet on “movie costumes” and was very surprised

that there was websites where people really did copies of movie dresses.

When I have found some sites I want to start my collection.

 

 

Question: How can I trust you? I don´t know you.

 

Answer: I know that it is difficult to trust people you don´t know. I think that we should learn to know each other

before we make any bigger orders. I want our contact to be both in business and in friendship. I wish that we can

trust each other without any doubt.

 

 

Question: How close to the original dress do you want the copy to be?

 

Answer: As close as it can be because I will show them to others and therefore it is important that the dress

looks like the one in the movie. A copy of a dress in a movie cannot be an exact copy. If there is a dress

from a movie which is made of a very expensive fabric I believe that some of them can be made in a

inexpensive fabric and still look like the original. It is not possible with all movie dresses, some of them looks

better with the more expensive fabric and if there is no alternative fabrics I will take the expensive one, but it

can be more difficult to pay the whole sum in one payment, then it would be good if we can make an agreement

in payments.

 

 

Question: I can´t make the dress because I can´t see every details in your photos. Why do you want it made?

 

Answer: Even if a movie dress doesn’t show as much as some seamstresses wish them to do. (Front, back and whole

dress so they can see every detail in it). It still can be made. I don´t care if the parts that are not shown in the

movie or in any photo on the dress are exactly made. That, I know, is impossible, but the parts that is shown

is possible to copy, then it is only possible to take the imagination to help with the other parts. You only has

to think about which time in history the movie is about. For an example: A dress from a movie in the Victorian

style is shown only from the waist and up, never in whole person. How can someone make a copy of that? Well,

first you take the things that is shown, in this case, from waist and up, and make a copy of that. Then you think

about witch style it is. The Victorian style was almost always bustle dresses, so it has to be one of those. Then

all you have to do is to come up with a style that is suitable to the other part of the dress, one question in this

case is “How big bustle should it be”? That’s all. Every movie dress can be remade in some way. 

 

 

Question: Is there anyone in your own country that can take your orders?

 

Answer: Yes, but it is only one place I have found yet and I want to have some sites to choose from. And some-

times the seamstress is to busy so she (or he) can´t take a new order at that time. Therefore I want to do orders from

other countries as well.  

 

 

Question: Why does some of your links lead to empty pages?

 

Answer: Because I cannot show all of my favourite dresses. My website have a space for some of them

and the rest must wait for their turn. When I work with my website the links are made and the photos are

placed on the site, but when I put out the site on the internet only the links come out all at once. I must

choose which dresses I want to show. Not all of my links lead to empty sites, and the pages are not “empty”,

I just haven´t been able to send up those photos. 

 

 

Question: Why do you have so many websites on your list?

 

Answer: Well, this question is something I have been wondering for myself.

I have a list where I write down the websites that want to take orders from me and the e-mail addresses to them.

I have a lot of sites on it. It is because I want to have as many websites as possible on it. Because of that I can

choose some of them to send an order to. If they didn´t have any time to make it or if there is any problem so

they can´t make it, I just choose some new on the list and send the order to them. After some time I find someone

who are willing to make it and then we start to talk about the costs of the dress and other things around the order.

 

This last question is from me to you.

I have tried to send my question to some websites and my e-mails always come back. I want to know if there

is anybody who can help me to contact them.

I also write down the e-mail addresses I got from the sites.

It is these websites:

 

http://homepage.mac.com/rhugget 

 

E-mail: jane.hugget@amserve.com

 

http://renaissanceromance.homestead.com  

 

E-mail: pamelapadgett@iglide.net

 

www.alyxxndon.com

 

E-mail: alyxx@alyxxndon.com 

 

www.wemakehistory.com

 

E-mail: wemakehistory@aol.com

 

I beg you to help me to get contact with these websites. It is good to have many websites to choose from, but

when the e-mails always comes back, what should I do then?     

 

Here is another little question from me to you.

 

Where has the site www.paulcreescollection.net gone? They had wonderful dolls on that website. If there is anyone

out there that know them or know if they will come back or where I can order those dolls now. Please, send me an

e-mail and let me know.