Melody Watts wrote: >My mom's weddding dress was a Rettingcoat / Rettingote (sp) style dress >with >the under dress styled exactly like theirs.
I think the word you want is Redingote, an 18th century (?) French word for a man's coat, which was a corruption of the English "riding coat". Kate Bunting Librarian & 17th century reenactor The University of Derby has a published policy regarding email and reserves the right to monitor email traffic. If you believe this email was sent to you in error, please notify the sender and delete this email. Please direct any concerns to info...@derby.ac.uk The policy is available here: http://www.derby.ac.uk/LIS/Email-Policy _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume