Robin Netherton wrote:
Schaeffer, Astrida wrote:
And please, please, if you
have Peacock's history of costume (that one's a modern abomination),
take it out and burn it. It has nothing but impossible line drawings and
no facts to back anything up. If only I could make all copies disappear
from library shelves....
Even better than burning it, send it to the Robin Netherton Home for
Wayward Bad Costume Books. I have a shelf full of unreliable sources
that I consult frequently when I'm trying to track down the origins of
a misconception and to sort out the sequence of a chain of erroneous
interpretations.
I love discredited sources. On numerous occasions I've threatened to do
historical masquerade entries based on known discredited sources
(including the idea of doing ancient Egyptian based on Rosicrucian
Society dogma for CC23 in Ogden, Utah at the Peery Egyptian Theater).
andy
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