On Monday 28 September 2009 3:50:13 pm Käthe Barrows wrote: > Is the sarafan a relative of the apron dress?? > > I don't think so. It has sides, and, in its recent configurations, it > has straps sewn right on. They're wide apart in front and close > together in back. And the garment doesn't seem to go back farther > than the 1600s (I tried researching one for SCA wear, and they're not > quite early enough.)
More to the point, the sarafan doesn't show up until long after the Viking apron dress was... history. -- Cathy Raymond <[email protected]> "A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." --Walter Bagehot _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
