So, since my last installment, I've been working away on making 9 rows of bias
ruched organza quilling trim in 1/12 scale for an 1849 evening dress. Tomorrow
I'll make the satin underskirt and start on the 16 ribbon roses. And then there
can finally be pictures. (Penny Ladnier, if you're reading
I was astounded to learn that my very proper great-great grandmother
and her daughters wore bifurcated garments on the Oregon Trail-- in
1852, very soon after Amelia Bloomer was named as their "creator." One
of the older daughters wrote about their experience and how the
garments made walki
No one seems to have mentioned bifurcated garments...19th C. review and
philosophy of women wearing male garments...including Bible Quotations...Lots
of interesting examples there!
From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On Behal
Seems to me that my daughter (27) and several students (college/high school)
recently (in the past 2-3 years) was wearing 'floods'jeans cuffed up to the
lower calf.
Kate Pinner
Costume & Scenic Design
Tech. Coord., Kelsey Theatre, MCCC
609-570-3584
pinn...@mccc.edu
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I guess I should read all the posts before replying - fun memories.
Patty
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And let's not forget clam-diggers - similar to either capri pants or
pedal-pushers, also from around the 1950s.
Patty
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I had a pair of dark red corduroy knickerbockers in the early 1980s. Being used
to wearing breeches as a musketeer in the Sealed Knot, and finding them
comfortable, I was happy to follow the fashion.
I remember my mother telling me years ago that "plus-fours" were so called
because they had an e
