> I figure you're the one I should ask! A friend of mine in America is going > to a PEERS picnic in August (Not sure what that is, but I'm guessing it's a > historical recreation group) & she'll be about 5 months pregnant by then, so > she's looking for "ANY images of what a pregnant woman would have worn in > the Edwardian period (specifically 1910-1914)", any suggestions about where > she should start looking? > > So far I've suggested that the empire line fashion of that era should work > OK but has anyone got better resources.
In this period it wasn't proper to be showing, outside your own house, but women had to go out during pregnancy. So search for things like a "box coat", which hangs straight down in front, without a waist. Then, for the event, keep it on. Make it lightweight so you can do this. Outerwear shaped like this show up in the 1880s and are seen straight through the early 1900s. Original sources never, of course, mention pregnancy, which is probably why you can't find it by searching on that. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
