At 8:35 PM -0400 4/21/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Designers often use styles from the whole century all at once without
following the time line. They seem to do this more in the 18th
century than any
other.
I don't think they do it more in the 18th century than any other -- I
think rather
I'm not now and never was a fan of the TV show Friends, but it did
yield one relevant cultural insight:
One of the women was moving in with another one who loved antiques
(Phoebe?). The new roommate (Monica?) bought a piece of furniture--an
apothecary's chest, I think-- from Pottery Barn,
At 6:22 PM -0400 4/23/06, Ruth Anne Baumgartner wrote:
... everything blends together into the look of Yore. That's why
hennins, for example, seem to be appropriate headgear for The Merry
Wives of Windsor?!?!?! etc.
Thank you for a very useful term! Yore it is.
On Apr 23, 2006, at 5:44 PM,
In a message dated 4/23/2006 6:17:21 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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but I think the dating of the chest was
absolutely precise. Most people nowadays (and, I promise you, my
college students included) think of time in only a few categories: the
future, now, their
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In a message dated 4/23/2006 6:17:21 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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but I think the dating
Remember Julie Christie's hair in Dr. Zhivago?
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At 6:22 PM -0400 4/23/06, Ruth Anne
Plunkett and MacLean was an 18thC movie that used some modern music.
On the one hand it was odd, but we expect background music in movies.
What struck me as odd was that the movie was set mid-century (I think
it said 1740 or 1750 on screen), and a fashion-forward character was
dressed
In a message dated 4/21/2006 6:48:17 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What struck me as odd was that the movie was set mid-century (I think
it said 1740 or 1750 on screen), and a fashion-forward character was
dressed in 1790s style.
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