That's my impression as well. Especially here: http://homepage.mac.com/muzette/Eng.File/Art/Gallery_pages/Gallery_bal.html The curve at the skirt is very sharp - as if there was a wheel farthingale. A bumroll would make a much more rounded look. Also the bend of the skirt is kind of too far from the waist, this would mean that the bumroll must have been quite large, but then it would make quite a round shape... "Sharon at Collierfam.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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" To: "Historical Costume" 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 h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume --------------------------------- Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. --------------------------------- Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
