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| Kirachi |
Posted - October 09 2007 : 6:42:46 PM
I ended up in an argument with my friend the other night as he is convinced that ladies did not wear any kind of underwear in the 1700's other than corsets and underskirts!
I find that very hard to believe!
I mean surely a type of bloomers exisited?!
Surely in a time were everything was so prudish and proper women would not have well...gone out in the breeze!
A very odd question but one that has been bugging me. All i can find online is refs to 1800 bloomers and nothing before that other than corsets and skirts.
Can anyone shed any light on this strange subject? lol
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| Kyfrontiersman |
Posted - December 18 2007 : 12:17:57 PM
Ha!!! That would make anyone laugh, fur sure |
| Obediah |
Posted - December 18 2007 : 12:10:15 PM
quote:
Originally posted by winglo
Mike, your stories made me laugh out loud!!
There must be something about the way you show off that caught your wife's eye. Keep it up!
Probably when he stood on his head while wearing a kilt... |
| Kyfrontiersman |
Posted - December 17 2007 : 10:53:29 PM
Thank you M'Lady for that, I only wish I could keep from hurting myself though,
then I would indeed be a happy man.   |
| winglo |
Posted - December 07 2007 : 1:54:48 PM
Mike, your stories made me laugh out loud!!
There must be something about the way you show off that caught your wife's eye. Keep it up! |
| Kyfrontiersman |
Posted - December 06 2007 : 2:44:45 PM
Wildeness Woman,
You know, I do prefer what you call it, much better than the other name.  
Mike |
| Kyfrontiersman |
Posted - December 05 2007 : 11:36:18 PM
WW, if I told my wife that, i'd be laughed out of the house  |
| Wilderness Woman |
Posted - December 05 2007 : 7:20:44 PM
quote:
Originally posted by winglo
quote:
Originally posted by Wilderness Woman
Btw, Obi... don't worry about those times when you seem to lose your train of thought. You are merely having Intellectual Interludes!"
Aren't those usually called "senior moments"?
Nope! I don't have those. I refuse to have those.  I have Intellectual Interludes.
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| Kyfrontiersman |
Posted - December 05 2007 : 7:17:43 PM
Everytime I try to show off to impress a pretty lady, I about kill myself.
For instance in high school, I playedf tennis once with a good friend.
I was more the football type, so when I lost the match I looked over and
there's a bunch of cheerleaders watching us. So I decided to go, jump the
net and shake my friends hand, except my toe caught the net, and sent me
down like a big ole tree falling over. The girls walked away laughing.
Then this past Spring I picked up a 5 foot long log that must have weeighed
150-200 lbs, trying to show off for my wife.  I could feel the muscles and
tendons in my lower back popping as I threw that log. I blamed Nancy, and
told her it was her fault. She gave me the 'look', then said go ahead, all
the time with me writhing in pain on the ground. I moaned, "If you weren't so
durn cute, I wouldn't have to show off for you still." She shook her head and
said "Idiot!!!"
Mike, the 'idiot' Rumping |
| winglo |
Posted - December 05 2007 : 7:05:49 PM
quote:
Originally posted by blackfootblood
Are "senior moments" allowed for people in their twenties? 
I don't know, but I'm in my forties and I have them more often than I'd like to admit! |
| Kyfrontiersman |
Posted - December 05 2007 : 4:44:10 PM
Ha, BF Blood, think I started my 'Senior Moments', bout the 1st time
I started thinking 'bout girls (kindergarten). That's when I started
showing off and getting stupid. I'm still gettin that way so it's
incurable.  
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| blackfootblood |
Posted - December 05 2007 : 4:06:53 PM
Are "senior moments" allowed for people in their twenties? |
| Kyfrontiersman |
Posted - December 05 2007 : 2:30:31 PM
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| Obediah |
Posted - December 05 2007 : 2:18:34 PM
quote:
Originally posted by winglo
quote:
Originally posted by Wilderness Woman
Btw, Obi... don't worry about those times when you seem to lose your train of thought. You are merely having Intellectual Interludes!"
Aren't those usually called "senior moments"?
Good thing I'm not blond!!! |
| winglo |
Posted - December 05 2007 : 1:23:17 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Wilderness Woman
Btw, Obi... don't worry about those times when you seem to lose your train of thought. You are merely having Intellectual Interludes!"
Aren't those usually called "senior moments"?
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| Wilderness Woman |
Posted - December 05 2007 : 08:32:12 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Obediah
...from the 1st Hobbit Highlanders, no doubt. 
Well, I do not socialize with them, either. They are just w-a-a-y too "earthy" for me. However, one can get a very good education from them..... on a windy day. 
Btw, Obi... don't worry about those times when you seem to lose your train of thought. You are merely having Intellectual Interludes!" |
| Obediah |
Posted - December 04 2007 : 10:58:42 AM
Nah, WW was never a hobbit (she's way too tall, for one thing), but she seems to have been really "friendly" with 'em! And I'm pretty sure hobbits don't speak French, so that would work right in with whatever the heck I am insinuating! Oh dear, I seem to have lost my train of thought... |
| Light of the Moon |
Posted - December 04 2007 : 12:35:21 AM
Why, Obi...are you insenuating that our lovely WW was ever a homicidal hobbit??? |
| Obediah |
Posted - December 03 2007 : 11:19:25 PM
...from the 1st Hobbit Highlanders, no doubt. |
| Monadnock Guide |
Posted - December 03 2007 : 3:51:33 PM
Heh, heh, - ya' right!! ;) |
| Wilderness Woman |
Posted - December 03 2007 : 2:34:03 PM
Well, I have known a few of those in my time, and I assure you it was not from personal experience. They told me so.
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| Obediah |
Posted - December 03 2007 : 12:42:49 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Wilderness Woman
quote:
Originally posted by Kyfrontiersman
wonder what homicidal hobbits wore for underwear?
They go "regimental!"
And just how do you know this? |
| Wilderness Woman |
Posted - December 03 2007 : 12:10:28 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Kyfrontiersman
wonder what homicidal hobbits wore for underwear?
They go "regimental!" |
| Light of the Moon |
Posted - December 03 2007 : 10:46:09 AM
LOL, KY. You're too much! |
| Kyfrontiersman |
Posted - December 03 2007 : 12:22:10 AM
wonder what homicidal hobbits wore for underwear?
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| Kyfrontiersman |
Posted - December 02 2007 : 9:48:43 PM
Being a subject which brought up clothing or 'undewear' on the frontier, I wanted to keep this thread going. Here's some great information on colors used on the frontier:
Colors of the Frontier
In 1806, Elijah Bemiss wrote his treatise on dyeing, The Dyer’s Companion (reprinted by Dover Publications, NY, 1973). Although Bemiss was a professional clothier and his recipes geared toward other professionals in terms of quantity and available dyestuffs, they do give us a picture of the most popular colors of the period. Included in the book are:
36 recipes for a variety of browns
26 recipes for reds
22 recipes for greys
18 recipes for blue
14 recipes for blacks
13 recipes for greens and olives
6 recipes for yellow and buff
4 recipes for orange
3 recipes for “plumb” or purple
2 recipes for flesh
1 each for pink, violet,“forest cloth” and “Paris mud.”
This breaks down to 57 % of what we might call earth colors: browns, grays, blacks and greens; 41% which may have been somewhat brighter (although some of the reds, pinks, and blues are described as weak or muddy); and a minuscule amount unassigned, as the author is unsure what “forest cloth” and “Paris mud” might be. What were known as “drab” colors were very popular even among the fashionable in the first decade or so of the 19th century.
Colors of the Frontier-- a Neverending Story
This fascinating subject, along with its attending question on awareness of camouflage capabilities, has fostered a fair amount of response, just the sort of thing Yr. Editor is delighted to receive. Please, Dear Readers, keep up the good work.
Billy Heck of Speedwell, Tennessee, reminds Yr. Editor that John P. Hale made note of the dangers of wearing colors that stand out, in Trans-Allegheny Pioneers. When the Indians attacked Draper’s Meadows in 1782, they were pursued by a company of “fifteen or twenty men” and some of the militiamen who had gathered for a muster day nearby; this number included a Captain Maxwell. As the account continues, “the Indians ran close to Captain Maxwell and party, and firing on them, killed Captain Maxwell, who was conspicuous from wearing a white hunting shirt. He was the only one of the pursuers killed (Trans-Allegheny Pioneers, John P. Hale; originally published in 1886; current edition from Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, MD, 1988; p. 125-127).
In her well-documented book, Seedtime on the Cum-berland, Harriette Simpson Arnow wrote that “hunting shirts were of many colors; white as worn by Cresap’s men was a favorite as were red and yellow” as quoted in Smythe’s Tour, I, 182. But she goes on to note “It is doubtful if many hunting shirts in bright colors were worn into the woods; these were most commonly worn by the gay blades at shooting matches and the soldier while traveling or on parade. Men in the woods avoided bright colors so as not to attract the attention of game or Indians.” (Seedtime on the Cumberland, Harriet Simpson Arnow; (U. of Nebraska Press, 1995; p. 151). This Arnow attributes, among other things, to Kercheval’s History of the Valley of Virginia. A footnote on page 114 of that book tells the story: Col., Chas Lewis, “who had arrayed himself in a gorgeous scarlet waistcoat, against the advice of his friends, thus rendering himself a conspicuous mark for the Indians, was mortally wounded early in the action; yet was able to walk back after receiving the wound, into his own tent, where he expired. He was met on his way by the commander-in-chief, his brother, Col. Andrew Lewis, who remarked . . .‘I expected something fatal would befall you. . ..’”
Arnow also notes that Daniel Boone was painted in “a rather plain hunting shirt of cloth, though he is described as having worn in the settlements of East Tennessee in 1774 a deerskin hunting shirt dyed black” by Reuben Gold Thwaites |
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