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paintnlady
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Posted: Thu Aug 3rd, 2006 02:31 am |
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Here is a website that explains why women (and men) needed a steamer trunck full of clothes to go to a weekend party.
Help....Jeri...it won't let me do a copy and paste of a URL. Can that be fixed?
Debi
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acwacivilian
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Posted: Thu Aug 3rd, 2006 05:05 am |
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Thanks for the site. I will check to see why it won't let you.
So I need a whole trunk of clothes to do one event? That is all the proof I needed to make more dresses.
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paintnlady
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Posted: Mon Aug 7th, 2006 05:45 am |
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[size= ]“A large fraction of our time was spent in changing our clothes,” one Victorian woman wrote in her memoir. "You came down to breakfast ready for church in your ‘best dress’...After church you went into tweeds. You always changed again before tea, into a ‘tea–gown’ if you possessed that special creation; the less affluent wore a summer day–frock. However small your dress allowance, a different dinner dress for each night was considered necessary. Thus a Friday to Monday party meant taking your ‘Sunday Best,’ two tweed coats and skirts with appropriate shirts, three evening frocks, three garments suitable for tea, your ‘ best hat’...a variety of country hats and caps, as likely as not a riding–habit...rows of indoor and outdoor shoes, boots and gaiters, numberless accessories in the way of petticoats, shawls, scarves, ornamental combs...All this necessitated at least one huge domed trunk, called a ‘Noah’s Ark,’ an immense hat–box and a heavy dressing case.”
This is the opening paragraph to the article. To read the rest go to:
http://www.vintageconnection.net/DressEtiquette.htm
I did it!!!
You have to use the quotes, then hightlight what you want and do a control C and a control V to paste.
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acwacivilian
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Posted: Mon Aug 14th, 2006 04:09 am |
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What a wonderful piece of information!
Thanks, Jeri
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