L&T Archive 1998-2003

P.S. Picture of waistcoat

This watercolor is of travellers grabbing a very hurried and impromptu dance on the road in rural Pennsylvania, and shows practices that Jane Austen's circle would have been considered extremely inelegant (there smoking was never done in the presence of ladies, and usually not indoors either, so that smoking while dancing would have been unthinkable, for example) -- but it gives a good picture of the shirt-and-waistcoat combination with the tailcoat entirely removed (something which is not very commonly pictured in contemporary illustrations)...

http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/181svinc.jpg

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Colonel Brandon's flannel waistcoat
Flannel waistcoat
Flannel
Flannel Petticoats
Red flannel--the miracle remedy?
'weskit' & 'waistcoat'
eighteenth century peskits?
At School...
Don't think so.....
Right... (shirt and waistcoat)
Three layers is not enough
Well, then...
4 layers here!
a 5th layer !
LOL at your instant cure for Darcy-mania (nfm)
Flannel Waistcoats
Flannel and fashion
You beat me to it--thanks! NFM
Not really what I said...
Pardon me; guess my paraphrase was misleading (nfm)
P.S. Picture of waistcoat