On Monday 11 July 2005 8:45 pm, Pam Dotson wrote: > Please let us know when you put the purses up on ebay. I'm getting giddy > just at the thought of owning something made by you! > > Pam Dotson > > Bjarne og Leif Drews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I got two books from Sweden some time ago. One is a book about Sophia > Magdalenas weddingdress, wich is a french court dress with a huge pannier. > It is in Swedish, dont know if they have translated it. Livrustkammaren is > the museum in the world that has 4 complete french court dresses, and i > knew the 3 of them, but this book shows also the 4th. wich is a > weddingdress used for Gustav III's younger brother's bride. > Then i wondered if any of you 17th century folks know how rich and > wonderfull the book Fashion Lions is? It is packed with costumes from the > northern part of Europe, included some of the danish costumes. Never have i > seen a finer scandinavian book, it is to be compared to the large book i > also have from Colonial Williamsburg, dont remember the name pressent, > sorry.
Bjarne, could the "large book...from Colonia Williamsburg" be "What Clothes Reveal" by Linda Baumgarten? -- Cathy Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "So what if the universe is a pointless mass of hydrogen refuse powered by entropy. I'm spreading ketchup on a rubber duck, and after that I'm going to brush its teeth. So there."-- Rob Landley _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
