[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > She offered me a job once but I was not > interested at all, I am a conservationist to some degree, atleast in > preserving the clothing an appreciating what they represented from a > bygone era where morals still meant something, as evident by the > beautiful ways in which ladies chose modesty in fashion, atleast by > today's standards.
Viewing historic fashion through a modern filter certainly would give the misleading impression that it was modest, but its merely that--an impression. Contemporary accounts exist in any era for the "immodest fashions" of their time. Even garments designed for the sake of modesty, such as women's drawers, first met with shock when they were first introduced. People were no more moral or immoral than we are now, but if you view the clothing they wore with a modern perspective then its going to skew what you see and you'll come away with a false impression of our ancestors. ~Joseph _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
