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Community News
Next meeting of City Club to feature talk by Betty Johnson, Sandy Zinn
The City Club of Florence will
meet at noon on Thursday, Aug.
1, at Ocean Dunes Golf Course
Clubhouse, 3345 Munsel Lake
Rd.
The program will feature Bet-
ty Johnson, a player from the
Siuslaw Pioneer Museum’s Her-
itage Players, and Sandy Zinn,
who volunteers in the museum
library. Their topic will be “The
Underpinnings of Old Florence”
and will present a typical lady’s
dress of the 1890s from the out-
er most layer right down to that
which lies closest to the skin.
Zinn, a longtime volunteer at
the museum, has extensive pio-
neer family files at hand to help
any of the John Quay Heritage
Players expand their knowledge
of the life and times of the actu-
al citizens of Old Florence whom
they portray.
Her seamstress skills are put
to good use helping the players
keep their authentic costumes in
order.
For Johnson, authenticity is
the watch word. After moving to
Florence in the 1990s from Eu-
gene, she became interested in
authentic costuming when she
and her husband joined the Sin-
gle Action Shooters Society in
2008.
This organization was founded
in 1987 by a group of people in
California who sought to reen-
act the Old West from Civil War
Days to 1911.
Joining the Heritage Players
has given Johnson a new outlet
for her expertise. She has helped
other participants improve their
own costumes, some of which are
copied from period clothing that
has been donated to the museum
by descendants of pioneer fami-
lies of the region.
“The hardest part of making a
garment from scratch is finding
vintage material, which can be
extremely expensive,” says John-
son. “Patterns aren’t much of a
problem because there are good
collections of ‘Harper’s Bazaar’
and ‘LaMode Illustre’ magazines
available. But making an outfit
is extremely time consuming be-
cause you’re dealing with lots of
fabric.
“Fitting the pattern to a body
is probably the most difficult,
while sewing pleats, ruching and
all types of embellishments takes
the most time.”
The Heritage Players consider
themselves lucky that they have
both Johnson and Zinn to work
with.
These two women will provide
a City Club program with infor-
mation and visual effects that not
many people have access to on a
first hand, up close and personal
basis.
The public is always welcome
at City Club meetings and lunch
is available to order from the reg-
ular menu.
For more information, contact
Annie Schmidt 541-997-1023.
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