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mizkit

research question

Jul 12, 2006 16:16

Can anybody, by any chance, tell me what swimwear (for white women (ie, wives, daughters of plantation owners) specifically) in the Caribbean in the 1650s or so would have been like, or if the whole idea is just so beyond the pale that legions of outraged society mothers would rise up from their graves to castigate me for the idea of sending their ( Read more... )

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pers1stence July 12 2006, 15:27:52 UTC

Tara Maginnis (from UAF) has or had a pretty hefty website of costuming stuff online for a while -- Costumer's Manifesto is what she was calling it....

mizkit July 12 2006, 15:41:15 UTC

She's still got it, but no luck. I tried there already. Thanks, though! :)

pers1stence July 12 2006, 16:45:20 UTC

I also emailed your query to Anne F, back in Anchorage, to see if she has any ideas or resources in her books, since I know her collection of literature is pretty vast....

Also, the Victoria and Albert museum has a pretty extensive fashion/costume/textile collection (and more links):
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/index.html

And possibly the Museum of Costume in Bath, UK:
http://www.museumofcostume.co.uk/

If nothing else, they might have a link where you can send queries....

aeriedraconia July 12 2006, 15:49:53 UTC

I'm thinking it was either not accepted for women to go swimming or that they went buck nekkid in 1650.
You could look up Charles I and II and The Commonwealth fashion eras.

mnarra July 12 2006, 15:49:58 UTC

In everything I checked, there is a blank spot between 300 AD and the 1800's. I assume, then, that water stopped existing in large enough quantities to bathe in.

Or women swam in their undergarments, which would be my second guess.

marith July 12 2006, 15:56:58 UTC

*giggles* debela has you pegged. :)

shadowhwk July 12 2006, 15:58:04 UTC

*snicker* I have nothing useful to say other than *snicker* at Deborah's comment.

Well, and to agree that I suspect if there was swimming at all, it happened in shifts and bloomers.

And that the scene after the credits was not worth sitting through the (holy beans long) credits.

But hey, Ted and Terry are doin' good, huh?

mizkit July 12 2006, 18:33:26 UTC

But hey, Ted and Terry are doin' good, huh?

That was on my mind, too, watching the credits. I kept thinking 'damn, and the hits just keep on comin'!' Good on them!