At 16:13 30/03/2006, you wrote:
As if anyone was not interrested? You must be joking!
What lovely costumes, thanks for sharing.
I absolutely wont come with any critisism at all, but why does the
gentlemen not button the bottom of their waistcoats?
I think i recognise one of the ladies, i have seen at the ball in
Bath, could this be right?
Thanks and you should be proud ................
The reason they are not buttoned is a purely practical one - they no
longer fit. I made some of these costumes anything up to 15 years
ago, and the gentlemen have allowed their appetites to overcome their
desire to look good!! I have one of them on the "to do when he gets
around to it" list for a replacement.
You may well have met any of these people at the Bath Ball - the Bath
group is an off shoot of the Covent Garden Minuet Company.
Suzi
If anyone is interested, this website, a newly revised one, has a
large number of my 18th century costumes in its gallery. www.minuetcompany.org
I did not make clothes for the two portly gentlemen, nor the
lady top right picture, and bottom left figure, but did make
virtually all the rest, from the skin out. (Except for any
garments worn on the lower part of the body and otherwise
known as knickers, briefs, panties stockings, hose or shoes etc!)
Suzi
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