, 2014 10:28 pm
Subject: Re: [h-cost] wardrobe size
Wills are often a great place to research this type of question. Unlike a
trousseau, they tend to reflect possessions at a random point in life (rather
than a planned-for life transition). There are a lot of researchers studying
clothing
In response to the original question I believe the question is too broad
for a reasonable quality of research results. For example -
* which country? In the US in the 19 century would have been seen
differenences between East and West coasts. In Europe tremendous
differences exist between
And for the 19th and 20th centuries, manuals of wardrobe advice and
articles about it in fashion magazines.
Fran
Lavolta Press
Books on making historic clothing
www.lavoltapress.com
On 10/8/2014 7:27 PM, Heather Rose Jones wrote:
Wills are often a great place to research this type of
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Subject: Re: [h-cost] wardrobe size
And for the 19th and 20th centuries, manuals of wardrobe advice and
articles about it in fashion magazines.
Fran
Lavolta Press
Books on making historic clothing
www.lavoltapress.com
On 10/8/2014 7:27 PM, Heather Rose Jones wrote:
Wills are often a great
Hello,
I'm trying to look into the size of the average middle-class woman's
wardrobe through the centuries. Finding advice on the trousseau is easier, at
least after the advent of ladies' magazines but I'm most interested in how many
dresses a middle class woman would own. How common was
What's middle class? For example, in the Victorian era this included
people who were just barely managing to keep up a middle-class
appearance, and an upper middle class that could be quite affluent.
Fran
Lavolta Press
Books on historic clothing
www.lavoltapress.com
On 10/8/2014 4:16 PM,
Wills are often a great place to research this type of question. Unlike a
trousseau, they tend to reflect possessions at a random point in life (rather
than a planned-for life transition). There are a lot of researchers studying
clothing represented in wills in various times and places, so you
