At 17:31 11/08/2005, you wrote:
I think it was just a slip of the finger...earlier in your post you
said "chemise," but then you said: "No-one professing to be a lady,
or even of the class of
>>Clarissa, would have gone without a corset."
I think you probably meant to write "would have gone w/o a chemise"
-- hence the confusion.
KP
Thank you - you are absolutely right and I apologise.
Suzi
I said that Clarissa does not wear a chemise under her corset - I did
not say that she did not wear a corset. As costumer, trying to
persuade customers to wear the proper underclothes, this sort of
thing undermines what I say and irritates me to heck!
<huge snip>
>>I saw this when first out and was disappointed in the costumes. No
>>chemises!!! Corsets on bare skin.
Even Hogarth's prostitutes wore
>>chemises. No-one professing to be a lady, or even of the class of
>>Clarissa, would have gone without a corset.
Mistake - should have read "chemise". Sorry - Suzi
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