[h-cost] test, sorry

2011-11-13 Thread Elizabeth Lear
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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

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