[LargeFormat] DIY Focusing Cloth and Blankies

[Stuart Phillips]

Don't worry, Richard, I've heard of the Chief and (as the government would
say) I'm an alien.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@ix.netcom.com>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 1:12 AM
Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] DIY Focusing Cloth and Blankies


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Verna Knapp" <vernak@wvi.com>
> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 8:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] DIY Focusing Cloth and Blankies
>
>
> > I wish my hair were not so slick. That sort of thing just
> slides off. I
> > have better luck with a baseball cap that has a tie for
> under the chin,
> > though that does not work well with the camera. Hmmm. Time
> for some
> > experimental sewing, I think. An old fashioned sunbonnet,
> but with a
> > very short or non-existent "poke" (front brim) just might
> work, and they
> > are not hard to make. And if I sewed the neck shade long
> enough, it
> > would be a fine dark cloth. Just flip it forward when
> needed. For those
> > not familiar with a sunbonnet, they sometimes had a cloth
> sewed to the
> > back to drape down over the neck and upper back to prevent
> sunburn back
> > there. And there was a long "poke" brim in front to shade
> the face. They
> > were used while working in the garden when I was a girl,
> back when a
> > suntan was a negative and not a positive. Women valued a
> pale complexion
> > back then. It said you did not have to work in the fields.
> >
> > Thanks for the idea!
> >
> > Verna
> >
>
>   This reminds me of the advise given to writers and others
> from New York  invited to work in Hollywood: Don't buy
> anything you can't get on the train and stay away from
> anyone with a suntan.
>   (Actually the original was don't buy anything you can't
> get on the Chief, but hardly anyone will know what that was
> now.)
> ---
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles, CA, USA
> dickburk@ix.netcom.com
>
>
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