Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re: civil war uniforms
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In a message dated 2/17/2006 12:45:15 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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My source seems to be very out of date, then. I'd read that
many uniforms were made at home to army specs, which accounted for a
certain amount of variance in cut and appearance among the troops.
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This is true.....just not as true as they'd like for you to think. It's not
the rule.
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And think in terms of the early days of outsourcing, factories putting out
piecework to women in a cottage industry, making uniforms to the specs provided
by the gov. At least in the North. And there were factories too. But not
necessarily for their family members in most cases. To my mind more like lace
makers or Ayreshire white work. (again I'm at work, and if citations/examples
or spelling are wrong, forgive and correct. I'm not being specific, just
blathering.)
And the varience would be [------] as opposed to
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In the Rev war uniforms were all hand made, but they were very uniform.
18c Mia in Charlotte, hoping for one winter storm, maybe this weekend.
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