Katherine Shaw

Hello there!

I'm interested in many different things; however, one of my stronger interests is in clothing and the history of Western costume, and I hope to contribute articles to the Wikipedia in these areas.

Useful links

Not very exciting for you, but useful for me:

• Technical section of the Village pump
• Getting pictures into articles: Wikipedia:Extended image syntax and Wikipedia:Picture tutorial (because i can never remember exactly how).

The 'To Do' list

Costume articles

• Expand on Stays article
• Expand on Farthingale
• Have a think about a 'History' section for the Corset article, and about separate corset history articles (currently there's Corset (before 1500) and Corset (1500-1970), which redirects to Corset in fashion.)
• Edit List of corset periods (note that some articles in this list exist, some do not; some that do are not necessary or helpful). Could be very useful to have this list incorporated into a 'history' section in the corset article.
• Contribute to Victorian corset.
• Contribute to Straight fronted corset.
• Beef up Wasp waist article.
• Contribute to the Bustle article.
• Add costume meaning of 'panniers' to Pannier and create that page.
• Start a Hoop (costume) article, and possibly create a disambiguation page for that and Hula Hoop?
• Edit the Basque (clothing) article.
• Start a Corset cover article.
• Sort out the knickers/knickerbocker article.
• Contribute to the Petticoat article.
• Think about sorting out stockings, suspenders and garters. (They all could probably be a bit clearer and reference each other better.)
• Think about articles for Camisole, Drawers and Combinations (currently redirects to Combination, would have to put in a disclaimer/disambig thingy at the top).
• Start a corsetiere article; also put up corsetier as a redirect to that.

Costume-related articles

• Start an article on Cathie Jung (picture at media:Cathie Jung.jpg).
• Start an article on Ethel Granger.

Book-related articles

• Get some detail on individual books into Rutshire Chronicles, and do brief summary of Pandora for the Jilly Cooper article.
• Start a Harlequin Enterprises Ltd article.
• Have proper think about the Mills & Boon article.

Pages about corsets

I have moved several of the articles about corsets to List of corset periods. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/List of corset periods.

Stay(S)

1. REDIRECTstay

Is that correctly?