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Canadienne - Side

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French Canadian costume for French and Indian War period (1750's).

Consists of: shift with gathered cuffs, stays, 3 petticoats (should be a little shorter). Bed gown made of brown linen (this stuff is so soft!) the instructions that I used to make this are are from Beth Gillgun's book "Tidings from the 18th century," Lappet cap taken from period engravings and with the lappets folded up and tied with ribbon, bibbed apron made from diagrams in Baumgarten's "costume close-up."
Image size
1644x3676px 601.41 KB
Make
NIKON CORPORATION
Model
NIKON D40X
Shutter Speed
10/600 second
Aperture
F/4.0
Focal Length
26 mm
ISO Speed
200
Date Taken
Jun 13, 2008, 8:13:17 PM
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onela's avatar
This is really lovely, I'm interested in researching how dress from Quebec and from Acadia (the Maritimes, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in particular) differ from each other.