In the late 1860s there were various methods of looping up a skirt with
ring/drawstring arrangements or buttons to make it look different over
an underskirt. My book _Reconstruction Era Fashions_ shows some of them.
In the 1880s it was common to "polonaise" tunics/long bodices, and
overskirts, with ties (or sometimes with buttons); but an important
reason was that the garment could be made much flatter to clean and
iron, than if it were permanently bunched up.
Fran
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Jean Waddie wrote:
As far as I know, it's not intended as a way of keeping your skirt out
of the mud. But on the other hand, it's not a permanent, sewn
arrangement, it's definitely something done with cords that you can
either loop up or let down. It would be nice if there was any evidence
of someone wearing the same dress different ways on different occasions
- like you sometimes get diaries or accounts showing that sleeves could
be interchangeable in Tudor times. I don't know that much detail of the
period.
Jean
Saragrace Knauf wrote:
Jean, these aren't "tied" up per se with the intention of letting them
down to train are they? Sg
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:34:47 +0000> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [h-cost] Anyone seen this in
history before?> CC: > > This is similar to one method of making the
Polonaise, in the 18th> century:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/orie/ho_1976.146a,b_1970.87.htm> >
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