In a message dated 7/28/2005 4:29:16 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Since this event is in the context of the 1815 Battle of Plattsburgh, New York (http://www.battleofplattsburgh.com/main.html) I was wondering if I should be focusing on styles from a few years earlier. How up to date do you think a well-to-do lady from New York, Philadelphia, or Boston would be? I agree that big city American women were very up to date--and probably not so big city women tried to be, too. We have had some debates on the subject, but I think American women, at least here in the Mid-Atlantic, looked more to France than England, too. Friends could send fashion plates in letters. In the very early 19th c., a man in New York subscribed to one of the magazines and charged women a small fee to come in and see the fashion plates. Many extant garments in collections show evidence of being re-modeled, often likely to keep up with changing fashions. Ann Wass _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
