OK, so I'm showing my ignorance, but why "side-opening" necklines? I'd think they'd be more difficult than symmetrical, center front openings. Sharon
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Catherine Olanich Raymond Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 9:30 PM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] 10th - 11th C. German 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. Definitely a bad camera angle, that. :-) -- Cathy Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Physics is like sex; sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."--Richard Feynman _______________________________________________ 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
