On Feb 16, 2006, at 9:29 PM, Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote:
On Friday 17 February 2006 12:11 am, Heather Rose Jones wrote:
[snip]
There isn't so much a "problem" with the neckline as that it's a
rather unusually shaped neckline. The particular angle of the
photograph is also not very good for seeing what's going on with the
neck. Asymmetric "side-opening" necklines are quite common among the
surviving garments of this era (what few there are).
I'm familiar with asymmetric necklines (the color photograph on
Cynthia
Virtue's page to which I referred the original poster has one, in
fact). But
the black and white photo in question appears to have an extra band
appearing
in the middle of what looks like a *symmetrical* neckline.
Yeah, the decorative band has a deep "V" on the (viewer's) left, but
then the right side of the "V" merges into a squared-off U on the
right. The "U" part is deeper and is the actual opening. One
problem in interpreting this garment is that -- if I'm remembering
correctly -- the decorative bands are the only original elements and
have been re-applied to different bodies over the years.
Heather
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LJ:hrj
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