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Monday, 5 March 2018

Warm and Elegant - Joan Lennon

I try to spread out showing you videos about historical clothes but, given the snowy weather UK has been host to this last while, I couldn't resist sharing this one.  Here are some dress-up-warm suggestions from 1893, from Finland - a country that knows a thing or two about coping with the cold -




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2 comments:

  1. Penny Dolan5 March 2018 at 10:05

    So elegant with her many layers - unlike the bundled-up person here at my desk.

    The use of quilting for petticoats made concealing jewellery and money in one's underclothes much easier to imagine.

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  2. Joan Lennon5 March 2018 at 21:59

    Yes - when I do layers it isn't quite the same effect ...

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