From: Gretchen Miller Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 18:52:20 -0500 (EST) Subject: H-Costume Digest, Volume 31, 1/13/94 The Historic Costume List Digest, Volume 31, January 13, 1994 Send items for the list to h-costume@andrew.cmu.edu (or reply to this message). Send subscription/deletion requests and inquiries to h-costume-request@andrew.cmu.edu For archives of this digest, send mail to close@lunch.asd.sgi.com Thanks and Enjoy! --------------------------------------------------------------- Topics: Info on Danish/Norman Dress Clarification on Poison Pen Press Seeking: Translation of French corset book Modern Major General Description -------------------------------------- Subject: French corset book Date: Wed, 12 Jan 94 16:14:34 MST From: Cindy Murrell Does anyone out there know if there has ever been an English translation of Le corset dans l'art et le moeurs du XIIe au XXe siecle, by F. Libron and H. Clouzot? It was published in Paris in 1933. If anyone does know of an English translation, I would appreciate having the publication information. Thanks in advance. Cindy Murrell Univ. of Calgary Library ---------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 94 13:56:40 GMT Subject: Re: Norman/Danish costume Presumably if you're husband has just come from Denmark he's going to be wearing Danish Fashions. I think it's basically shirt/tunic & hose plus legwrappings, hood & cloak depending on the weather. The hose were probably held up with garters though they might have hooked onto some sort of breeches. I've got a paper describing a danish shirt from sometime around a thousand years ago, I can't remember the details right now, but I could dig it out or find the refernces if anyone's interested. I think it was by Mytte Fenz (sp?) There was a man dug up in a bog in Bocksten who might also be relevant, he was wearing hose a hood and a tunic, I think he might have been flung in the bog a bit late for you: 12th? 13th? century I wish I had a memory! Anyway I've got a paper with descriptions of his clothing, and diagrams from which patterns could easily be drawn. What sort of social class were you thinking of? There's a bit of difference between peasants and kings, though mostly it seems to be a matter of how much trim, embroidery and imported finery you add on top of the basic costume. On the early side there was a king buried at Bjerringhoj/Mammen, I think he was around tenth century. As I recall he had tunic, cape, and some sort of leg wrappings. There's a bit on him in a book by Margrethe Hald on Ancient Danish Textiles, and I've got some more stuff from a Danish Museum that tried to reconstruct and copy the costume. He had fancy embroidery and tablet weaving on his clothes, and a headpiece involving net and tablet weaving that archaeologists love to argue about. I can't think of any how-to-make-a-danish-norman-at-the-end-of-the-migration books right now, but if you are willing to start from archaeological papers I might be able to get you copies of some relevant papers or send you references to them. (Is this another SCA project by any chance?) Jennifer ---------------------------- From: "Lee Radigan" Date: 13 Jan 94 09:58:57 EST Subject: RE: book search (clarification) > When I posted the list of places people suggested I go to try to find Q.E.'s > Wardrobe, I gave the address of Poison Pen Press and Green Duck Designs. I > don't actually know whether or not these are retail shops or just the > people's home address. >From what I've seen of Poison Pen at SF conventions, they seem to be operating out of someone's home, doing only mailorder and con huxter room sales. Best to write, send SASE for their current booklist and do it by mail. Lee Radigan, LIB1 Information Systems Internet: ljradiga@hawk.syr.edu 039A E.S. Bird Library Voice: (315) 443-9507 222 Waverly Avenue Fax: (315) 443-9510 Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 ---------------------------- From: STRAUSS@UNCA.EDU Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 15:04:34 -0500 (EST) Subject: Modern Major General To: h-costume@andrew.cmu.edu For a production of G&S's Pirate's of Penzance, does anyone have a good reference of what an actual, 19th C (1850s) major general looked like? Any reference to a good book would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Susan Brown-Strauss strauss@unca.edu ---------------------------- End of Volume 31 -----------------------