I have in my collection just such a gown of the '70s that got reshaped and trotted out as QE1! It is indeed a hoot. My very favorite of these can be seen at The Museum of the City of NY: A purple velvet number of the late '70/ early '80s and worn by Mrs. Astor. She went to the party as "a Light Bulb"!! Her Diamond headdress provided the twinkling lights.
Kathleen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joan Jurancich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 10:47 AM Subject: Victorian ideas of Renaissance clothing, was Re: [h-cost]italian childs renaissance dress > At 02:48 AM 2/15/2006, you wrote: > >Thats interresting. Its funny they want to keep the edwardian shape > >even for renaissance. > > > >Bjarne > > > >----- Original Message ----- From: "Kimiko Small" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 4:36 AM > >Subject: Re: [h-cost] italian childs renaissance dress > > > > > >>At 09:42 AM 2/14/2006, you wrote: > >>>Found this, and thoaght some of you might not have seen it yeat. > >>>http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?coll_keywords=dress&submit. x=3&submit.y=10&coll_start=81 > >>> > >>>Bjarne > >> > >> > >>Thank you Bjarne, > >> > >>I got to playing around with the search engine, and found this > >>interesting gown, from the House of Worth. > >>http://tinyurl.com/92mz4 > >> > >>I found it amusing that they would do a renaissance style gown for > >>the well to do. I could almost see this gown on a "friend of faire" > >>person, someone who likes to dress up with something that looks > >>kinda right, but isn't. > >> > >>And in purple velvet, it's rather fetching. > >> > >>Kimiko > > I have a fashion print showing "historical" outfits for a fancy dress > (costume) ball in the 1880s. It's hilarious from a costumer's > viewpoint. Imagine Mary Queen of Scots with an 1880s shape. :-D Very funny. > > > Joan Jurancich > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
