In a message dated 11/13/2006 10:18:53 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Okay I couldn't resist and looked it up. Actually, this one (if it's the right one I'm looking at) says it's made to order in standard sizes, so it's not custom. And IMHO it's ugly, ************ I must agree. It is ugly! Let's just peruse the design, shall we? The different reds look pretty ugly to me, but all personal color choices aside.... The upper part of the gown is made to look like a gown with hanging sleeves, with tight sleeves from an undergown in brocade showing. So far so good. Now this isn't my period by a long shot, but I'm sure they faked this in the period. Still, would not a T-shaped construction be correct, if not more common, in this time than set in sleeves? [Like I said, it's not my period] If there's no armseye seam, this sleeve coming from under another sleeve seems hard to fake. Still, it's not unfathomable, and the dress does have set in sleeves... so that's OK. But then the whole illusion is destroyed when we get to the lower skirts. Were it a full skirt of brocade with the red overskirts slit at intervals to reveal the brocade, OK. But this is not what we have. We are stuck with what is obviously one pieced layer....a red dress trimmed in the same brocade as the tight sleeves of a supposed undergown. Why go thru all the trouble to fool the eye from the waist up only to kill that illusion with bad design below? I said it....BAD DESIGN. Let's all learn from it. There should be a LOGIC to designs....a logic that is true from head to foot. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
