Thank you, Elizabeth W. and Sharon C. - I never realised that wearing a
hat could have so many implications! I wonder if the idea is modern of
doing honour to the occasion by wearing a hat, which seems to be
coming back into custom and not just fashion.
When I wore a hat as part of my school
Re: gloves: a kickback to the Victorian thing of never being tanned; it
meant you worked! Same reasoning behind always wearing a hat. A LADY did not
get tanned from working in the sun. Some women took arsenic in tiny doses to
give them that really pale look. The ideal was to be really pale with
Actually, at Fezziwigs, one removes one's bonnet because it is difficult to
see while one is dancing. While on a short visit to the Adventurer's Club or
Tavistock House, one leaves one's bonnet on; if one is staying to have tea
or dine, one removes it.
Sharon
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From:
Most 19th century bonnets I've seen, real and costume, will stay on as well as
any hat and the strings don't really keep it on, except maybe in windy
weather or in an open coach. I'm willing to bet that many times the tying of
one's bonnet string, and how they are to be tied is dictated by
On 11/19/2011 1:57 PM, albert...@aol.com wrote:
Most 19th century bonnets I've seen, real and costume, will stay on as well as any hat
and the strings don't really keep it on, except maybe in windy weather or in
an open coach.
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There are various 19th-century paintings of women
