On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Melanie Schuessler <[email protected]>wrote:
> I agree with Karen. Though I think the general outlines of this outfit are > correct, it looks like an idealized genre painting. I've seen some really well-dressed 19th century rural Eastern Europeans in photos, and seen images of surviving examples. This included gold thread, maybe seed pearls, and certainly lots of ethnic embroidery. I was assuming these folks were wearing their Sunday Best clothes. Might this be what we're looking at? How would we tell the difference, so many centuries later, between idealistic representation and selective examples of reality? -- Carolyn Kayta Barrows -- “The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.” -William Gibson -- _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
