> It looks to me like it could be a fancy-dress costume from the 1880s that > was supposed to be "colonial". I have seen some verrrrry interesting 1880s' > era fancy dress costumes; no matter the time period that was supposed to be > represented, they all had the 1880s' wasp-waisted silhouette.
Dolly Varden was an 1870s play popular enough to have generated pseudo-colonial-styled dresses named after it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_Varden_(costume)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_Varden_%28costume%29> I think actual 1870s Dolly Varden dresses are fun, because I'm a historical purist with a warped sense of humor. But this pattern isn't one of them. -- 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
