Well, my first impression from Google images was that the white garment was a shift, the cotton "slip" you'd wear at the base of everything, corset goes over it, bustle "bum-roll" goes over it, only any possible knickers would go under it…
a VERY Lizzie-phile website where I found a review of the piece, http://lizziebordenwarpsandwefts.com/2014/01/26/lifetimes-lizzie-borden-took-an-axe-yes-a-crime-was-committed/ provided this in its review of the piece: "Lizzie racing around in her underwear with hair streaming wantonly down her back" -- see also the "1890's fashion" link in the sidebar -- some fascinating material there, although nothing about underwear on the first page… Googling "1890's underpinnings" brings images like these, which appear to validate elements of that slip, to my eye, anyway! http://www.pinterest.com/pin/233413193162644655/ (found her again, listed as "Dahlia M", at http://indulgy.com/post/wo6jgNuPJ1/jacket-circa-s -- NOTE, even in a "naughty girl" photo, her hair is completely done!, rather than "streaming wantonly" http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/dc/a5/91/dca5914a47b652a8e14657aeb3e5d188.jpg -- this is labelled "Edwardian, 1910" on its Pinterest page, http://www.pinterest.com/windilyn/underpinnings-and-victorian-things/ Oh drat. we have so far refused Pinterest's new spam-generator "membership" stuff, I did see several more things that look like the movie garment further down the page, but can't see past the dratted "join us" black-bar-of-death! Well, there went about an hour of my Sun-day-of-rest! 8-) chimene On Oct 12, 2014, at 10:51 AM, Cascio Michael <rosen...@yahoo.com> wrote: > ... And on a another note I just saw Lizzie Borden Took an Axe with > Christine Ricci in it and the outfit she's wearing through most of the > movie's day of the murder just seems wrong to me. Is it supposed to be an > underdress because it's hot or a housedress or a fantasy? > > > Cassandra _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
