Um, all you gave was the main page for the site. What is the shoe style's name so it
can be found?
-RC
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I'm getting ready for the Costume Con historical masquerade, a
These sound gorgeous! Any chance of photos?
-Kate
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I have three wedding gowns of this period, 1879-1884; two have confirmed dates. All
Sharon - Can you post the site's URL, please?
Thank you!
Kate
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From: "Sharon Collier"
I found a site with Sicilian/ Italian translations. If you need further
help, he has an email.
art...@dieli.net
Good luck and if you find out what it means, post here please. I
It's not a leap to assume that the lower classes couldn't afford the
yardage to do proper regular pleats, box pleats or cartridge pleats, and
therefore did indeed gather out of necessity. For example, if one only had
enough yardage to make a skirt that was 5 inches wider than the hip
Methinks
The point is to make the garment(s) fit right on the half-scale mannequin. They
don't care about it actually fitting a human. (Please be aware that the
_provided_mannequin_ which entrants are _required_ to use is of _modern_idealised_
proportions.)
Actually (and I'm sorry if this sounds cyni
Grey gloves were fairly popular in the Regency era and wouldn't look too
'matchy-matchy'. Grey, being a neutral, would also be wearable with other colours.
-Kate
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The thing that always got me about the 'slash it to make it larger' story was it
implied the Landsknechts were either
1 - too dumb to trade with someone else for a better fitting garment
or
2 - too lazy to wash it, patch it, & sell it in the next town
or
3 - that they were larger than everyone th
