Thank you to those who gave time frame suggestions as well as links and
stories- I find people's clothing stories very interesting. My early twentieth
century
history isn't that strong and I think shows it up. I think I might see what the
local academic
libraries have on the 1930s and
Melody Watts wrote:
My mom's weddding dress was a Rettingcoat / Rettingote (sp) style dress with
the under dress styled exactly like theirs.
I think the word you want is Redingote, an 18th century (?) French word for a
man's coat, which was a corruption of the English riding coat.
Kate
