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From: "Zuzana Kraemerova" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "h-costume" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 2:33 AM
Subject: [h-cost] gores in skirt in late Middle ages???
By the way, looking at the chimera costumes' web page, is there any
historical evidence of this kind of dress:
http://chimera-costumes.co.uk/slideshows/view.php?c=43 ? I mean the gores
in the skirt (or lower part of the dress) - does anybody know?
Zuzana
Other people have commented on the lack of evidence for contrasting gores,
I'm just going to deal with the usual argument for why it 'might' be period.
A lot of people who like this style argue that if people had been short on
fabric they would have had to use another fabric for the gores, while this
is plausible the concept of therefore making a feature of your lack of
fabric doesn't seem to fit the medieval mindset (it would be an admission
that I'm too poor to buy enough fabric for one dress, not hey look at me I'm
so cool and different) . If you ran out of fabric you may have to get a new
piece from a different dye lot which is a slightly different colour but it
would be the sort of contrast that isn't readily obvious until you look
closely. I can't provide a medieval example but I have seen a photo of a mid
19th century dress which has evidence of piecing done in a very similar
print but not matching.
Elizabeth
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Elizabeth Walpole
Canberra Australia
ewalpole[at]tpg.com.au
http://au.geocities.com/amiperiodornot/
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