pattern for this dress?

It's not magic:

In your original message the headers showed: NNTP-Posting-Host:

65.208.190.146

I used

to run a whois on that IP address:================================================Location: United States [City: Los Angeles, California] NOTE: More information appears to be available at NET-65-208-190-144-1.

Using 2 day old cached answer (or, you can get fresh results). Hiding E-mail address (you can get results with the E-mail address).

UUNET Technologies, Inc. UUNET65 (NET-65-192-0-0-1) 65.192.0.0 - 65.223.255.255 Museum of Contemporary Art UU-65-208-190-144 (NET-65-208-190-144-1) 65.208.190.144 - 65.208.190.159 ================================================

Later you must have used a different computer (maybe you went home?), the message header showed: NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.36.216.157 and dnsstuff.com whois showed, for that IP address:

================================================= Location: United States [City: Panorama City, California]

NOTE: More information appears to be available at NET-70-36-192-0-1.

Adelphia Cable Communications ADELPHIA-CABLE-8 (NET-70-32-0-0-1) 70.32.0.0 - 70.40.255.255 Adelphia 70-36-192-0-Z7 (NET-70-36-192-0-1) 70.36.192.0 - 70.36.223.255

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2006-06-02 19:10 # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database. ==================================================

Even if I'm wrong about the Museum account, I still think it's a pretty sure bet you are in the U.S.A., probably in CA, so an eBay auction for a pattern in Australia would be a stretch. Am I correct?

HTH,

Beverly

In the 1960s I had a similar pattern, which I made in a sleeveless version using a coarse cotton weave, the name of which I can't remember, and it was a perfect dress for south Florida's summers. I made it in brightly colored prints, and because of the cut and the cloth, could get by with a minimum of underpinnings. It was delightfully cool to wear.

Naturally, I no longer have the pattern, nor can I even remember the company that made it, though the choices were slimmer than today. I do remember cutting two left armhole facings, though..... I haven't made that mistake again.

Oh, and by the way, your message at 11:47PM seems to have come from yet another IP address, possibly in La Puente, California, on a Verizon Internet Services Inc. account?

I am not expert at reading headers though, and sometimes the NNTP posting host is not shown. But, I think you use a Windows machine at work(?), and Mac elsewhere?

Look, I don't want to alarm you, but you need to know that you're not quite as anonymous on newsgroups as you may have thought you were, even posting through Google Groups.

Stick around, we don't bite. I hope you find a pattern for the dress you want to replicate. ;-)

Beverly

I am going to search tomorrow for a pattern I *know* I had/have that is almost identical to what OP wants. I remember it had those curved darts for shaping (French darts?), and was an A-line mini. It may not have had sleeves, though, because I'm pretty sure I made it up sleeveless. At that time, I was a pattern size 10, so it may not help OP much.

Yawn.... G'night,

Beverly

>> (or - the photo's not that clear, but the shape >> looks similar.>

True enough :-/ I just happened to be browsing vintage patterns on ebay when I saw the post, and didn't stop to look at the postage cost for overseas. Sad how postage often makes good bargains not worthwhile.

Liz

Suggest you start with a forgiving print (coin-sixed daisies, or a "toss") or a solid. It'll go together easier and you can figure out how the pattern works. Use that one as a paint smock or nightshirt if you want. (Your $$$ example would be cute in denim.)

Uh, what's a "toss"? It's where the design (usually an identifiable item) looks like it's been randomly scattered across the yardage. Check this link, my search string consisted of the referenced word. (You can find prints with just about anything: bicycles, cell phones, cats, musical instruments, dancers, stargazer lilies...)

once helped my less-sewing-experienced sister lay out a four-panelfull-length plaid taffeta holiday skirt (solid velvet bodice) and Imatched every seam. She couldn't cut it out herself until I picked upthe scissors and got it started. Admirers of the finished productdelightedly exclaimed, "the seams match!!" HTH

--Karen D.

Hey,

Can you *PLEASE NOT POST MY DNS IN THIS NEWSGROUP?* This is very frightening, and I feel a little threatened by you.

PLEASE STOP, OKAY!??!?!

HS

BEI Design wrote:

Remember, YOU posted all these details, and will again every time you post to ANY group! They are there for anyone who cares to look, in the headers for your post. If you are paranoid about it, stop posting! :) Most of us don't give a monkey's where you live or post from, but this

*is* an international group: it's no good you asking where I get some notion or bit of equipment from, or the price you can expect to pay, if you are in Tasmania and I bought it in Preston market in Lancashire! I need to know where you are so I can find you some relevant info, which is what Beverly was pointing out... :) And there are a lot of very net savvy folk on this group, who have been posting a loooooong time! They are very useful when things go belly up...

I've been posting here and elsewhere for years, and other than occasional rashes of spam (easily dealt with by Mailwasher) have had no problems. Someone tried to steal my email address once with a remailing program, but their true address got dug out of their headers by someone here and they were shopped to their ISP. It can be a very useful attribute.

Sure.

You asked " How do you track down ISPs?!", and I answered. Your IP address appears in the headers of *every* message you post, (and also in the headers of e-mail messages) regardless of whether I included them in my answer to your question or not. Sorry that you feel threatened, that was not my intention, I thought you were seeking information.

FYI,

IPA = Internet Protocol Address " When you use the internet, your computer has a unique number which identifies your computer to other computers on the internet. This unique number is known as the computer's IP (Internet Protocol) Address."

DNS = Domain Name System (or Service or Server) ), an Internet service that translates domain names into IP addresses. Because domain names are alphabetic, they're easier to remember.

Beverly

Thanks Kate. I didn't consider how the OP might react to that information. And the reason I looked at her IP address in the first place was precisely as you suggested, to see if an eBay auction in Australia might be useful to her. I do understand her reaction, I was shocked after my first few posts here (over five years ago) "in the open" to start receiving bucket loads of spam. I learned quickly to disguise (munge) my real e-mail address, and it took a while longer before I learned that the headers contained information about my ISP. Live and learn...

Beverly

Beverly, Actually I think you did her a great service. People don't realize how vulnerable they are when posting. Many people don't take into consideration that most of what they think is private, isn't. We use our credit cards, emails,E-Z passes and even little cents off tags at the supermarket. The would is watching. And if you want to think that you have privacy just remember the NSA really is watching whether you like it or not. Juno

You are the one who is posting it. It's in the headers of your messages. There is no way to conceal headers, and it's part of the Internet that when you go to any site or post on any forum, including Usenet, that the route your connection takes is logged.

Thanks.

I use those "member discount" cards ONLY if they will issue it without ANY personal identifying information. Some will, some won't.

Beverly

I appreciate your support, thanks. Funny, how no good deed goes unpunished....

Beverly

I am really enjoying that another "grandma" is so computer savvy, thus helping demolish that notion that "older people" don't use the Internet or can't learn anything beyond emailing the grandkids. What a crock that notion is! LOL. Look at all the savvy "grandmas" we have right here!!

Yeah, Grandmas who *sew* and are *technophiles*!!! What a concept. ;-) I also have re-roofed my house, installed two skylights, torn down and replaced the deck, gutted the kitchen and helped install all new sheetrock, wiring, plumbing, etc.... I did leave installation of the new cabinets to the pros, though. ;-)

Beverly (looking forward to meeting Joanne in "meat space" in the fall)

Whoops -- well, you did ask how she found it.

D> Hey,