On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Lloyd Mitchell wrote: > I'd like to see That one...(And who said that Victorians were lacking > in a sense of humor... when it came to "Dress"?
Some of the examples I use during my talk on the Victorian view of historic costume come from a book called "Fancy Dresses Described," by Ardern Holt, a very popular manual of ideas for costumes for fancy-dress parties. In addition to a large number of historical figures, it gave instructions (and a few illustrations) for how to dress as a deck of cards, a tea set, various flowers, etc. (The historical designs, of course, bore little resemblance to actual period costume of the historical figures.) --Robin _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
