>What is Esperduccati? I can't even get a google hit on it! The drawing that so many use to "prove" that the wheel farthingale is just a circle of canes is called "Les Esperducattis". It's from 1615 or so and illustrates a balleto of 4 men wearing the wheels. They are assumed to be mocking womens' fashions. Find it in Norah Waugh's "Corsets & Crinolines", page 30 where she says it "suggests" that might have been the way wheels were made previously. I suppose is it amazing that no one's scanned the illustration & put it on their costume webpage yet. --cin Cynthia Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>...There are drums where the skirt > hangs vertically and drums where the lower edge kicks out as in this > one. In my vile experiments, a barrel-shaped hoop creates that slight > angled-out, whereas the "Esperduccati" style appliance, leaves the > skirt to hang vertically unlike this picture. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
