Now I feel like a total beeyotch - I have Rexford's book after drooling all over a university copy! (mopped it up with a tissue as fair as I was able) would recommend it to anyone and everyone. Still - I'm sure that she's learned reams and realms in the ten for fifteen years since she worked on that collection and worked on her book. She might even be the first to admit it. I'm sure we can all think of a topic that we dived into and totally overturned our original perceptions after a few years research. give her mega-credit because her book is first-rate and she did heaps of research - and it's an enjoyable read. Makes the "angel in the house" and protective attitude towards American woman attitude much more understandable - from their perspective - almost enlightened. At the same time it seems strange that she would choose to try to pin the term "sacque" on what seems to be usually described as a garden-variety shirt. But perhaps she was trying to make her mark - "Rexford describes these garments as a "sacque" yadda, yadda - sort of like that paper on shortgowns, versus bedgowns versus jackets, etc. I will forgive her anything, short of international terrorism, for her book. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa (or words to that effect.) I love Nancy Rexford and her research. Sheridan Alder
From: WorkroomButtons.com <westvillagedrap...@yahoo.com> To: Historical Costume <h-cost...@indra.com> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 8:51:30 AM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Need information on "sacque" garments (NOT the dress) Not only that, but the actual working space was...well, horrible. Dirty, poorly lit, and very (very) crowded -- not quite attic space, but very close. It's slightly better now. The ladies have since cleared out a tiny back room, tearing down filthy tattered 1840's wallpaper (and saving as much as they could) so they could scrub and paint. It is now our "clean space" and even tinier because we just assembled shelving in there for our new storage boxes. Everything else is still very crowded and precariously hung on leaning donated coat racks -- sacques and mens' shirts are still on wire hangers. Nothing was done with the collection for 15 years after she cataloged as much as she could reach, and a lot of it was jammed into that tiny (filthy) room until very recently. Have I ever posted a link? www.townsendhistoricalsociety.org ...a little more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Homestead ...and we're on TV! www.tv.com/shows/ghost-hunters/ghostly-evidence-1395703 A film crew showed up to record our "ghostly happenings" a few months ago. Has anyone seen the this episode of "Ghost Hunters"? Maybe... 150 years ago (?) a grieving mother, mourning the death of her daughter, hanged herself off the top of the staircase. We all grip onto that post when we climb upstairs (steps are very steep). It's a sad story, and I hope that poor mother has found peace. Dede --- On Thu, 9/15/11, annbw...@aol.com <annbw...@aol.com> wrote: 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. _______________________________________________ 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
