Re: [h-cost] Dressing a Victorian lady

2011-07-22 Thread Kate Bunting
The person mentioned in the article who wondered about Georgian underwear - hasn't she heard of shifts? Kate Bunting Librarian & 17th century reenactor _ The University of Derby has a published policy regarding email and reserv

Re: [h-cost] Dressing a Victorian lady

2011-07-22 Thread Kate Bunting
...and, of course, before the 20th century if you were having an illicit affair and hadn't much time, you made love with most of your clothes on! Kate Bunting Librarian & 17th century reenactor _ The University of Derby has a p

Re: [h-cost] help identifying picture

2011-07-22 Thread Katy Bishop
Cool feature, I was going to guess something a little later than Ingres or around the time of Tissot..The chemise she's wearing looked very mid-19th century. Katy On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Elena House wrote: > Ooo, turns out Google has a nifty new way to search to do an image > searc

Re: [h-cost] Dressing a Victorian Lady

2011-07-22 Thread Bambi TBNL
This actully happened o me early in my heckered career in the SCA. First of all... I have NEVER been of a size that inspire men to toss me around. So i am at my first dance at coronaion and we are dancing "the official bransle" (also known in the ommon language as " Toss the Duchess" my dance pa

Re: [h-cost] Dressing a Victorian lady

2011-07-22 Thread Carol Kocian
I added a comment to the page about a lot of that info. -Carol On Jul 21, 2011, at 7:05 AM, Kate Bunting wrote: ...and, of course, before the 20th century if you were having an illicit affair and hadn't much time, you made love with most of your clothes on! Kate Bunting Librarian & 17th

Re: [h-cost] help identifying picture

2011-07-22 Thread otsisto
The chemise/camicia/hemd looks like it could pass for 1500s except for the eyelet embroidery. http://realmofvenus.renaissanceitaly.net/wardrobe/CARIANISeduction.JPG http://realmofvenus.renaissanceitaly.net/wardrobe/VenetianLovers.JPG http://realmofvenus.renaissanceitaly.net/wardrobe/NewUnknownWoman