I hope you enjoy your trip as much as I did. We went to the McCord Museum to see my husband's grandfathers picture collection when it was on display there. The romanian gypsy outfit looked great in his photos and then I got a book "Cut my Cote". In this book from the Royal Ontario Museum is a picture of almost the same outfit. The book states that the outfit is Roumanian, North Moldavia, Late 19th Century. Surprising that there was a young women wearing the almost exact outfit in the nothern interior of BC in the 1920's.The outfit is so ornate with it's embroidery, woven belt, black wool wrap-around skirt and white linen & cotton shirt. She was photographed outside on a wintery day so the darker color really pop from all that white. Yes, she got her money for not putting a curse on the family and offering goodluck instead.. Edith
"Jeanine E. Swick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Guess I should have said the U.S. Thanksgiving, I know Canada's is in Oct., but didn't think of that when I posted. We'll be there from Nov. 26 to Dec. 3rd. My husband has a conference there and I'm going along to play tourist. I should be able to navigate the Metro there even though I don't know much French. I managed the trains and subways in Japan a few years ago - not all the stations use dual text (kanji (sp)& roman) on their signs. I saw a reference to the McCord Museum costume collection. The link will be helpful. Thanks, Jeanine Audrey Bergeron-Morin wrote: > Hi, > > If you want costumes, the McCord Museum will probably be your best > bet. http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/. Check their online catalog as > well. A little hard to navigate, but they have many amazing items and > they're not all on display, at least not all at the same time. > > The Pointe-à-Callière is interesting as well, but it's an archeology > museum, not a costume collection. No fabric there, but a visit of the > first settlements of the city. Lots of arrowheads, but also more > recent stuff, pottery, glass, other household items, all arranged by > date, and the fundations of the very old building underneath the > museum. http://www.pacmusee.qc.ca/indexan.html It's in the Old Port, > so you can visit the area too, although it's probably starting to be a > little empty at this time of year - and it will be windy too. There's > a great Science museum in the Port too. > > You can also try the Stewart museum. > http://www.stewart-museum.org/map.htm. Few articles of clothing, but > very, very interesting items, most in the 17th to 19th century range, > IIRC. Not very big, but the exhibitions are usually very interesting. > > If you want fabric, the usual location is on St-Hubert street, north > of Jean-Talon. It's the so-called fabric district. But there's a > couple of other places as well, out of the fabric district, for > example a shop called Rix Rax for buttons and notions. > http://www.rixrax.ca/ (another annoying QuickTime site - if you need > the address, let me know). > > I don't know of a good independant library. Most of them have been > swallowed up by Renaud-Bray and Archambault. There's Olivieri but it's > out of the way of major attractions. For used books and CDs, there's a > few on Mont-Royal, east of St-Denis. Mont-Royal, both east and west of > St-Denis, is THE place to go for used clothing - and used things in > general. Some very fashionable stuff too. > > If you're still there December 2nd, the Salon des Métiers d'Art opens > that day. You'll have the cheesy artsy stuff, but also the very > interesting modern art objects to buy, as well as a few local fine > food producers - some of what they sell is not available in stores. > Entrance is free. > > Try www.montrealplus.ca for all (well... let's say a lot of) Montreal > activities. > > If you're into food, take a trip to Jean-Talon market. Parking is not > easy so try to go during the week. The market itself and the streets > around are a real feast. Literally :-) > > For general shopping, restaurants, those kinds of things... The French > side is St-Denis street, between Ste-Catherine and... oh... about > St-Joseph. The mixed, a little more chic street is St-Laurent, between > Sherbrooke and St-Joseph. (St-Laurent cuts Montreal in half - French > on the East, English on the West side, more or less). Where the > English (and most tourists) go for bars and restaurants is Crescent > street, mostly between de Maisonneuve and René-Lévesque. You can also > try Ste-Catherine street from Peel street down to about Berri street - > and even down to Papineau. > > But if you're looking for anything in particular (antiques, crafts, > Japanese food, paper, tea, fancy men's hats - whatever) let me know. I > don't know a lot of places, but maybe I can help - yes, I know, > costumes and fabric and books :-) Unfortunately, I do most of my > shopping for those things online! > > Other than that... frankly, we rarely know our own city very well :-) > > Oh, and BTW, Canadian Thanksgiving is in October :-) It's long gone by > now... > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeanine E. Swick" > > To: "Historic Costume" > Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 9:37 PM > Subject: [h-cost] O.T. traveling to Montreal > > >> I'll be in Montreal the week following Thanksgiving. What would be >> some good sites/museums to visit? 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