I have seen unbleached fabric lining. I do recall a British navy regulation of the 1790s calling for white silk lining for officer ranks. In reality, as time went on and silk went up in price, any suitable white fabric was acceptable.
This really screws things up as my only navy bicorn dated to the early 1800s has bare remnants of a dark silk lining and a tiny bit of white cloth that may have been a name tag. Remember if you do use white our modern whites are not the same, there were no fluro dyes and rinses back in ye good old days before the invention of the flush dunny, -C. ------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
