Oh, my goodness, she is one of THE authorities. Of course, all of us costume historians have learned a great deal in the last 15 years and, as you point out, she was faced with an enormous task. She might very well have different readings on some of these things now herself.
Also, even extremely knowledgable costume historians likely know some periods better than others, and some types of objects better than others. I would never question what Nancy Rexford says about women's shoes in the US, for example, but I might about some other class/type of garment/time period. Ann Wass -----Original Message----- From: WorkroomButtons.com <westvillagedrap...@yahoo.com> To: Historical Costume <h-cost...@indra.com> Sent: Thu, Sep 15, 2011 6:43 am Subject: Re: [h-cost] Need information on "sacque" garments (NOT the dress) I looked her up (her name is on the transcript). She appears to be very nowledgeable, but of course that's no guarantee of accuracy. Also, she was aced literally with dozens of bulging plastic garbage bags and may have missed lues dues to the sheer enormity of her task. We (two elderly ladies and me) have found things she missed, like factory marks nd laundry stencils, that in my untrained opinion render her approximate date f those garments invalid. But, again... considering the conditions under which he was working... it's not surprising that she may have missed the mark ccasionally. Am I allowed to use her name here? Here's a book she wrote (on Amazon): www.amazon.com/Womens-Shoes-America-1795-1930-Rexford/dp/0873386566 ...and here is a brief professional synopsis: www.partnersforabetterworld.org/directors.html (scroll to bottom) -- On Thu, 9/15/11, Sheridan Alder <sheridanal...@yahoo.ca> wrote: xcuse me if someone else has already thrown out this suggestion, but my mpression is simple - the 1995 cataloguer just plain wasn't knowledgeable about istorical clothing! ______________________________________________ -costume mailing list -cost...@mail.indra.com ttp://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
