I looked her up (her name is on the transcript). She appears to be very knowledgeable, but of course that's no guarantee of accuracy. Also, she was faced literally with dozens of bulging plastic garbage bags and may have missed clues dues to the sheer enormity of her task.
We (two elderly ladies and me) have found things she missed, like factory marks and laundry stencils, that in my untrained opinion render her approximate date of those garments invalid. But, again... considering the conditions under which she was working... it's not surprising that she may have missed the mark occasionally. Am I allowed to use her name here? Here's a book she wrote (on Amazon): www.amazon.com/Womens-Shoes-America-1795-1930-Rexford/dp/0873386566 ...and here is a brief professional synopsis: www.partnersforabetterworld.org/directors.html (scroll to bottom) --- On Thu, 9/15/11, Sheridan Alder <sheridanal...@yahoo.ca> wrote: Excuse me if someone else has already thrown out this suggestion, but my impression is simple - the 1995 cataloguer just plain wasn't knowledgeable about historical clothing! _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
