Is that what the name of it was? Knew the picture, but not the name....thanks!
> Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 11:34:35 -0700> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL > PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [h-cost] Esperduccati?: WAS Danish Renaissance > dress.> > >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]> _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
