In a message dated 8/16/2006 11:34:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

I have a  "Centennial Dress" from the 1870's that's a really interesting take 
on  quasi-Colonial.  I'm still trying to figure out what they were doing with 
 the flat-fronted skirt that has some really odd seams to make 
quasi-panniers,  and the bias-wrapped elbow-triangles are a  hoot.




What really drives costume historians crazy is the Centennial dresses that  
were re-made from real 18th century dresses.  So you have that wonderful  
fabric remade, as one historian put it, as "Little Bo Peep."
 
Ann Wass
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