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-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Katy Bishop Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 9:50 AM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] movie costumes--Egyptian There is one at the MFA in Boston, it was conserved several years ago, when I worked there or just before. I might have a picture somewhere in an old bulletin. It was beautiful beads in blues mostly as I recall. Katy On 1/3/07, Sylvia Rognstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When did this evidence about Egyptian beaded net dresses surface? I > never heard of it before nor is it in my old costume history books. > It's been decades since I studied the history of costume, but since I'm > going to be teaching it this January I'd really like to keep up on > recent developments. > > Sylrog > > On Jan 2, 2007, at 9:34 PM, Heather Rose Jones wrote: > > > > From the description, it sounds like it might have been inspired by a > > surviving Egyptian "bead net" dress -- a very open network made of > > threaded beads. The one I'm thinking of is basically a tubular sheath > > with shoulder straps and at the bottom hem it has a "fringe" of > > dangling flower-shaped beads. _Might_ -- I'd have to see the original > > to know if the suspicion holds up. There's a rather dark photograph > > of the item I'm thinking of about halfway down the page at: > > > > http://www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/sexuality.html > > > > Heather > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > h-costume mailing list > > h-costume@mail.indra.com > > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > > > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > -- Katy Bishop, Vintage Victorian [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.VintageVictorian.com Custom reproduction gowns of the Victorian Era. Publisher of the Vintage Dress Series books. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
