It seems to be that the women are wearing wheel farthingales, not bumrolls alone.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Walpole Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 12:31 AM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] looking for pictures of bum rolls ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin Netherton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 6:27 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] looking for pictures of bum rolls > > Following up my own post (below): Here's one of the images: > > http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/photo_ME0000057470.html > > The presence of rolls is very clear, particularly on the woman in the > right foreground, but on some others as well. > > It does seem to be at the Louvre, as I was remembering. I probably have > some photos of it and its mate, but I haven't gotten around to indexing > all of the 500 or so slides I took in Paris ... a few years ago ... yeesh, > I will never get them all straight. > > --Robin > Aha! I found another http://homepage.mac.com/muzette/Eng.File/Art/Gallery_pages/Gallery_bal.html it's not that big but this is the one I was thinking of. Elizabeth -------------------------------------------- Elizabeth Walpole Canberra Australia ewalpole[at]tpg.com.au http://au.geocities.com/amiperiodornot/ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
