To All.
In case readers/members are wondering WHY I'm writing about women's clothes in the 19th Century, my Darla & I are "gathering information" for our "living history" garments for our 1820-45 Texas "common settler's impressions".
(We plan to portray the first married couple from our family who emigrated to Texas in 1821 from Northern Mississippi. -The young married couple had everything that they brought to Texas in their saddlebags or tied behind their saddles, except for tools/heavy household things that were packed on the "good, young, red mule" that Leticia Fey had received for her main wedding present, when she married Robert Henry Louis Red Fern, just before they got married on 24DEC1820 & almost immediately left Mississippi at dawn on 25DEC1820. - Upon their arrival in Nacogdoches, the Spanish Provincial Governor GAVE them "a league & a levy" of "good bottom land" in what is now Panola County.)
Note: a "league & a levy" was then about 640 plus 180 acres of land or a total of 820 acres.
Darla is rebuilding/redecorating the interior of an office building & asked me to do the clothing research for both of our "impressions".
(AUTHENTIC frontier-era Texas clothing is a MUCH more complicated subject, than I first thought.)
yours, satx
In case readers/members are wondering WHY I'm writing about women's clothes in the 19th Century, my Darla & I are "gathering information" for our "living history" garments for our 1820-45 Texas "common settler's impressions".
(We plan to portray the first married couple from our family who emigrated to Texas in 1821 from Northern Mississippi. -The young married couple had everything that they brought to Texas in their saddlebags or tied behind their saddles, except for tools/heavy household things that were packed on the "good, young, red mule" that Leticia Fey had received for her main wedding present, when she married Robert Henry Louis Red Fern, just before they got married on 24DEC1820 & almost immediately left Mississippi at dawn on 25DEC1820. - Upon their arrival in Nacogdoches, the Spanish Provincial Governor GAVE them "a league & a levy" of "good bottom land" in what is now Panola County.)
Note: a "league & a levy" was then about 640 plus 180 acres of land or a total of 820 acres.
Darla is rebuilding/redecorating the interior of an office building & asked me to do the clothing research for both of our "impressions".
(AUTHENTIC frontier-era Texas clothing is a MUCH more complicated subject, than I first thought.)
yours, satx
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