Great references!! Another Holmes fan! Yours in costuming, Lisa a
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 10:44:38 +0100 Kate Bunting <katembunt...@gmail.com> writes: > Another point: some of Sherlock Holmes's deductions depend on the > fact that > lower middle-class Victorians owned fewer clothes than most of us do > today. > Even after the textile industry was mechanised, before the invention > of > synthetic fibres clothing was comparatively expensive. So, the > typist in "A > Case if Identity" wears the same dress to work every day, and it has > marks > on the cuffs where her wrists rest on the table edge which give a > clue to > her occupation. The pawnbroker's assistant who is secretly digging a > tunnel > to the bank vault across the street in > "The Red-headed League" has mud on the knees of his trousers; he > hasn't > changed them or put on overalls. > > Kate Bunting > Librarian & 17th century reenactor > _______________________________________________ > 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
