According to a talk by Stuart Peachey which I heard last August, a waistcoat was a close-fitting sleeved upper garment worn by working women. Kimiko, the modern meaning of what Americans call a vest, as a man's garment, dates from the eighteenth century onwards.
I think of a jacket in the seventeenth century context as the loose, often fur-trimmed women's garments often seen in Dutch genre paintings, but I don't know if that's a period term. The heavily embroidered ones from earlier in the century are also described as jackets in the modern context. My two penn'orth, 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 [email protected]. The policy is available here: http://www.derby.ac.uk/LIS/Email-Policy _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
