IIRC, it is the one that Janet Arnold talks about in the volume of Patterns of Fashion that covers the 18th century. She describes it as a travelling costume I believe. Someone's whose book is handy will have to confirm it for me however, since my books are still in boxes.

Cheers,
Danielle

At 02:41 AM 10/23/2007, you wrote:
Bjarne,
What season was this dress worn?
http://tidenstoej.natmus.dk/periode1/dragt.asp?ID=57
Is it for a special occasion?

De

-----Original Message-----

On Oct 22, 2007, at 12:50 PM, Leif og Bjarne Drews wrote:

> For those of you who are interrested clothes from 1700 and onwards are
> on wiev on the danish costume museum.
> http://tidenstoej.natmus.dk/index.html
> Only danish i am afraid, but look further down under the pictures of
> the costume, there are smaller pictures to click and they will appear
> besides the photo of the costume on top. Also pdf files of the pattern
> cuts and also zoom in
>
> Have fun!
>
> Bjarne

_______________________________________________
h-costume mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Reply via email to