Message: 11
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:36:32 -0800
From: K?the Barrows <[email protected]>
To: Historical Costume <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [h-cost] victorian gown?
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> 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
Actually, Dolly Varden is a character in Dickens' "Barnaby Rudge", a historical
novel set in London in 1780, so just a little after what you would call
"colonial"! The play must have been based on it.
Kate Bunting
Librarian & 17th century reenactor.
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