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I'm on a real history kick right now, aren't i? If you read for the projects, my contract starts Monday so i'll start generating projects soon enough!
I wanted to share an image of a rare type of bonnet (or at least, i think of it as rare): the calash. These kinds of bonnets and hoods have boned hoops in them and are quite large in dimension, to accommodate the large hairstyles of the late 17th century. I don't know where the image came from in terms of the original source--i got it framed as a gift from my aunt.
( picture behind the cut )
The Charlotte Museum of History has a great image of a well-preserved green silk calash on their website.
Here's a really large one, which according to the host site, the photo dates from the late 19th century, again probably a staged "old fashioned attire" photograph.
I haven't quite got the second half of Ms. Bryner's report ready to post yet, but![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
kuki_milliner commented with a link to a cool page on the archive of her papers:
http://specialcollections.vassar.edu/findingaids/bryner_edna.html
Apparently, she graduated from Vassar in 1907 (putting her probably in her early thirties when she conducted the millinery survey), was quite a successful novelist and later became an expert on Tibetan Buddhist literature. What a cool lady!
I wanted to share an image of a rare type of bonnet (or at least, i think of it as rare): the calash. These kinds of bonnets and hoods have boned hoops in them and are quite large in dimension, to accommodate the large hairstyles of the late 17th century. I don't know where the image came from in terms of the original source--i got it framed as a gift from my aunt.
( picture behind the cut )
The Charlotte Museum of History has a great image of a well-preserved green silk calash on their website.
Here's a really large one, which according to the host site, the photo dates from the late 19th century, again probably a staged "old fashioned attire" photograph.
I haven't quite got the second half of Ms. Bryner's report ready to post yet, but
kuki_milliner commented with a link to a cool page on the archive of her papers:http://specialcollections.vassar.edu/findingaids/bryner_edna.html
Apparently, she graduated from Vassar in 1907 (putting her probably in her early thirties when she conducted the millinery survey), was quite a successful novelist and later became an expert on Tibetan Buddhist literature. What a cool lady!
