Re: MtMan-List: womans attire

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<< Kamala asked about the accuracy of the _Book of Buckskinning_ series.  >>

You will notice in the photos inserted in the article on Southwest attire,
that almost all of the women featured have on a skirt, ( not petticoat) that
is the modern invention called a 3 tiered skirt, you will also notice that
the article 'skirts' this issue all together and NEVER even mentions the
photo skirts.  This is a pet peeve with me.  All you have to do at most
Rendezvous is have 3 people wear the same style or dress and them POOF its aac
cceptable !!
Well, I can find no documentation of this skirt before 1870 ( and that is not
pre-1840) After searching many many places, the last place I had
correspondance with wrote...
 > I am doing research on the pre-1840 era for costuming.  Do you have any
 >documentation on what is currently called a '3 tier' skirt or 'broomstick'
skirt being 
>in your area pre-1840?   I know there is documentation for 3 layer skirt,
but what I >need is to  dispell or bolster this 3-tier style of Southwestern
attire women are  >portraying as accurate.  I have found  1870's Navajo and
can find no extant or plates >to document this skirt any earlier in time.  If
you could point me toward another >source- or if you have nothing on this-
either would also be greatly  appreciated.
>Eileen; At present I know of no reliable source for the information you
need. 
>However, while working on a book/doll project for Pleasant Co. I have
>come to see how much Mexican fashions of the very early part of the 19th
>century influenced New Mexico.  I will continue to check. Best All-ways,
 Skip
Skip is the curator for the Hacienda Martinez that is in Taos, New Mexico and
the museum time frame is set from 1790- 1840.
(NOTE)  the only skirts or really the word is petticoat, even if it is under
or the top layer, the petticoats that I have found documentation on are 3 or
more layers of ruffles sewn on a 'base skirt', not one to the next as it is
in the '3 tiered' 
See web site http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/PLATE91CX.HTML  1850's or
http://uvm.edu/~hag/godey/fashion/cpdesc2-57.html

I hope this helps and I also hope that we keep striving for documentation and
doing research, research, RESEARCH.  
Here is to a more accurate reenactment!! Eileen Watson