Hello, Thank you!
Kate Bunting- I assumed that too, but, when I was looking at pictures from about 1810-1820, there seemed to be a split among small girls with cropped hair, mullets, and pinned up hair. Jane Ann Campbell (1820) ( https://www.encore-editions.com/portrait-of-jane-ann-campbell-1820-by-ammi-phillips/) and the seven year old Harriet Campbell (1815) ( https://www.clarkart.edu/Collection/3529), both have their hair up. (Some French and German girls seem to have their hair up too, but it's hard to tell if they're little girls.) There are also some girls who might have cropped hair or might have curly hair pinned up; after what you've said, I looked back at some I'd thought of as having buns, and they might have short hair. Ann Wass- Thanks for that picture of Independence Day. I love the mother and small child in the center, where the child has lost the bonnet and is hopping while the mother is trying to continue her conversation with adults. There aren't so much events we'd wear this to as that we'd go and swan around some of the bicentennial museum exhibits or things like that. My daughters like dressing up and I like historical costuming, so it seems like something we could all do together. (I ended up wearing my 1859 dress in Alabama last summer, even though I'd made it in wool for an October event in Rhode Island. That's why I'm looking at thin cottons.) Gunvor- I'll probably go with the Danish dress; it looks like it will be easier to fit than the others. (I like the underarm gusset! My dresses always ended up with those when I was a kid and outgrew things between cutting and sewing.) This is going to be something we'll only do if they're excited about it; they seem to now want white dresses with sashes in their favorite colors, since they could also use them to play Maria and Liesl when they play Sound of Music. They just don't care where the seam lines are, so I'll have fun doing a historic pattern. Sadly, I think I only wore the whole 1805 ensemble twice, for a Gilbert and Sullivan costume parade and Halloween in 2004. If there were any pictures, I lost them. It's just the Janet Arnold bib front dress that everyone made, in white muslin. (Modern muslin, not period muslin.) Thank you! -Lydia _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] https://indra.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
