On Aug 19, 2009, at 23:07, [email protected] wrote:
I am trying to figure out what kinds of lace would be extant and
available
to American and Canadian women (urban and fairly rich, I guess) to
decorate their clothes (especially coiffes).
I remember reading somewhere that one of the American First Ladies
(but, which???) had her entire inauguration dress made of the
new-fangled, *machine-made* lace (imported from Nottingham, IIRC). I
expect that would have had an influence on the "urban rich" fashions,
at least in the US. It would, also, have made a definite difference
between the 1810s and the 1860s fashions, the said dress (again, *as
far as I remember*) having "happened" somewhere in the early 1820s. For
us, "AM" can have a totally different meanting than it does for the
rest of the world -- After Machine :)
[...] the difference between country
clothes that seems to stay fairly 18th centurish and urban clothes
which
follows European fashion fairly quickly. Have others noticed this too?)
The differences between the (slow) country rhythms and the
(fast-moving) city ones extend beyond US/Canada and beyond the clothing
scope, though clothing is one of the most manifest. You can tell, by
their clothing, the "country bumpkins" from the "city slicks" in
paintings done all over Europe -- England, France, Netherlands... even
Poland <g> -- at different times. But language, also, changed faster
in the cities than it did in the boondocks, even in countries where the
population was native and (mostly) monolithic, not immigrant and mixed,
as in US and Canada.
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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