--- Mary Mumley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you look at the show's website, you will see that
> the costume designer made the New Englanders drab on
> purpose. Remember that the Adamses lived
> before the vibrant dyes of the 19th century were
> invented. The color range
> for a New England housewife was very limited.
I beg to differ.
I have seen a full set of eighteenth century
crewel-work bedhangings in Wethersfield, Connecticut,
in the Webb-Deane-Stevens set of houses.
Silas Deane signed the Declaration of Independence.
The hangings were as bright and gorgeous as if they'd
just been embroidered--red and pink, shades of blue,
green, yellow, and brown.
Wethersfield was, at the time, a fairly small town,
but had trade, often cash income from onions, and they
are right on the Connecticut river.
Traditional way for a woman to get a cash dowry in the
eighteenth century was to raise herself a crop of
onions.
So I'm not talking NYC, but not an isolated backwater,
either.
If Wethersfield could have lots of color, so could
rural Massachusetts close to Boston.
Ann in CT
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