This, of course, sent me off looking through lots of portraits on the web, where I have seen plenty of *matching* waistcoats, but unfortunately no dark waistcoats with lighter coats. ( Do you know how many portraits were painted at just the right angle to not let you see what is on under their coats and jabots? Nearly every blasted one!!!! )
However, I did find this portrait - http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?search=ss&sText=bach&LinkID=mp05038&rNo=0&role=sit which seems to have a waiscoat of a contrasting colour. So, what you wish to do, Bjarne, while being uncommon ( as far as we can tell ), doesn't seem to be completely unlikely. My 2c worth. Joannah. --- "Bjarne og Leif Drews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: "Bjarne og Leif Drews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:30:11 +0200 To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [h-cost] habit francaise Hi, I have run trough all of my books, and i think that it is not used. So i have to stick to a naturally off white silk waistcoat. Most important thing is to find nice colours to embroider it with, and it should not be so difficult. Thanks for your oppinions................ Bjarne ----- Original Message ----- From: "otsisto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 2:59 AM Subject: RE: [h-cost] habit francaise >I remember seeing once upon a time a medium green jacket with a dark red > waistcoat. It had something to do with christmas but I can't say for sure > of > the date of the print. > > De > -----Original Message----- > At 19:41 14/10/2005, you wrote: > >>I have a question about colours for the habit francaise arround 1770ies. >>Must the waistcoat always be of lighter colour than the jacket? >>I was so fortunate to find a ribbed silk today in dusty rose colour. It is > a >>Armani silk. Naturally i baught the whole rest wich was 6,30 meters. I >>thoaght it would be nice with a darker grey coloured waistcoat. Make grey >>embroidery on the dusty rose jacket and dusty rose embroidery on the grey >>waistcoat? I dont think i have seen other pictures with darker waistcoat, >>except for a black one wich went with black breeches and black jacket. >>Any ideas? > > > I have not seen, that I remember, any fashion plates showing a darker > waistcoat. Nor any complete suits with darker waistcoats. But we > don't know for sure. Maybe someone did wear it like that because, > like you, he had a superb waistcoat to show off. > > Suzi > > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _____________________________________________________________ Sluggy.Net: The Sluggy Freelance Community! _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
