At 20:22 07/10/2006, you wrote:
Hi,
That would have ben an interresting job. Do you
happen to have any ideas why the american
pockets was slightly bigger than the continental ones?
I mentioned it to Linda Baumgarten, while she was
showing me some of the pockets at Williamsburg,
but because we were rather rushed by that stage
there wasn't time to go into more detail. It will
be an interesting project though, for my
sabbatical next year, while making my family wedding clothes.
Could it be that the american ladies were more
independent and therefore had more to carry arround?
Would off cause be mostly impossible to find out.
Suzi do you know of any english dresses called
open gown, wich would be without the watteau
pleats in the back? It is mostly because i have
a guess that some dresses must have ben made
without the pleats, according to the paintings i
have seen here in Denmark. The problem is that
we only have very few dresses preserved from the
time. And isnt it a shame, the museum of
decorative arts in copenhagen have many 18th
century dresses, but they have never ben
published. I was thinking about asking, even i
know it is pricy, to get photocopies of the
dresses, they have in their files.........
Bjarne - are these the same as round gowns - I
get very confused with the terminology! I think
there may be some in Costume in Detail, and
probably in the Williamsburg books. There are
certainly gowns without pleats in all of those
books. It would be good if you could get pictures
of the Danish gowns - there are few enough
pictures in the book by Ellen Andersen that was
published by the Museum, although I suppose we are lucky enough to get any.
Suzi
A quote from today's Daily Mirror, normally a
bit of a scandal sheet, it is headlined "OUT OF POCKET" (their capitals.)
"Scientists have trousered £140,000 to study the history of women's pockets.
The handout, from taxpayers, paid for two
researchers to examine 18th century tie-on
pouches (!) in a bid to 'help understand more
clearly what they meant to those who wore them.' (!!)
<snip>
The grant was given to Southampton's Winchester
School of Art and Textiles three years ago. The
study results are on display at a Bath museum."
I'd have done that for board and lodging and
free photos! How dare they not ask me!! I took
loads of photos in the U.S. recently of
pockets. Did you know that on average, pockets
in England are smaller than in the U.S? I bet
they didn't put that in their research!!
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