Waistcoats come up in ladies' inventories all the time and I've never known quite what to make of it. I gguess I could have asked, but it's the kind of thing that I tend to pass over "for now" and intend to come back to later. And look! It's "later"! Thanks Jill!
MaggiRos -- Maggie Secara ~A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603 ISBN 978-0-9818401-0-9 Available at http://elizabethan.org/compendium/paperback.html or your favorite online bookseller On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Jill Hadfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > According to some books I have, a 'waistcoat' was a coat cut to the waist. > i.e. a short coat (with sleeves) - didn't matter if it was male or female. > Therefore a bodice was a waistcoat (worn with a skirt) as apposed to a > 'gown' which was like a long coat but tended to be worn by married women. > > Jill > > > At 12:57 27/08/2008, you wrote: > >> At a re-enactment event at the weekend, someone mentioned that she had >> heard that women's bodices were called waistcoats in the early 17th century. >> No-one else was aware of this. I'm sure I have seen mention of the >> waistcoat as a woman's garment on this list, but can anyone clarify the >> definition? >> >> _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
