[h-cost] test, sorry

2011-11-13 Thread Elizabeth Lear 
Checking throughput on the list.

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[h-cost] Not tying your bonnet strings ?

2011-11-13 Thread Linda Walton 
As the list is so quiet, I'll take this opportunity to raise a point 
that has always puzzled me, and hope that it will not be off topic.


My great-grandmother lived in the North of England, (north Lancashire), 
at the end of the Victorian era, and I know very little about her, 
except that she was considered a very proud woman because she wouldn't 
tie her bonnet strings.


It's bothered me all my life, and of course I should have asked my older 
relatives, but I've left it too late now, and they are all gone.


So:  can anyone explain what that was about?

Awaiting all suggestions with interest,
Linda Walton,
(in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.).
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Re: [h-cost] Not tying your bonnet strings ?

2011-11-13 Thread Carol Kocian 


Interesting — in 18thC reenactment, I heard that you did not tie  
anything under your chin unless you had a chin to hide. I don't know  
if it came from an 18thC source, because various folksy things are  
shared in reenactment.


-Carol


On Nov 13, 2011, at 5:04 PM, Linda Walton wrote:

As the list is so quiet, I'll take this opportunity to raise a  
point that has always puzzled me, and hope that it will not be off  
topic.


My great-grandmother lived in the North of England, (north  
Lancashire), at the end of the Victorian era, and I know very  
little about her, except that she was considered a very proud woman  
because she wouldn't tie her bonnet strings.


It's bothered me all my life, and of course I should have asked my  
older relatives, but I've left it too late now, and they are all gone.


So:  can anyone explain what that was about?

Awaiting all suggestions with interest,
Linda Walton,
(in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.).
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