I mut look this one up! It might have all those dicey tid-bits that would amuse women at Tea.
Kathleen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin Netherton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 12:30 AM Subject: Re: Victorian ideas of Renaissance clothing, was Re:[h-cost]italianchilds renaissance dress > > On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Lloyd Mitchell wrote: > > > I'd like to see That one...(And who said that Victorians were lacking > > in a sense of humor... when it came to "Dress"? > > Some of the examples I use during my talk on the Victorian view of > historic costume come from a book called "Fancy Dresses Described," by > Ardern Holt, a very popular manual of ideas for costumes for fancy-dress > parties. In addition to a large number of historical figures, it gave > instructions (and a few illustrations) for how to dress as a deck of > cards, a tea set, various flowers, etc. (The historical designs, of > course, bore little resemblance to actual period costume of the historical > figures.) > > --Robin > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
