A Question
Jul. 15th, 2012 07:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
This was inspired by a conversation between Sarah and her Mum about whether or not her Mum had worn a particular dress to an event and if certain people would have seen it. This got me thinking to how a Society Lady would have kept track of what she'd worn. I'm aware of Cellar Diaries to keep track of booze and Hostesses Books to keep track of who'd come round for dinner and wehat they'd been fed. However, I'm not aware if there was a corresponding book for a Ladies Maid or the Lady herself to keep track of her outfits.
Do they exist?
Do they exist?
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Date: 2012-07-15 06:30 pm (UTC)Ladies of society kept records (or rather had records kept for them) that most OCD sufferers would be proud of.
Clarington.
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Date: 2012-07-15 06:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-15 07:11 pm (UTC)It is my understanding that such records were very common for quite some time before her era, at least in upper-crust households whose women-folk were literate, and from her era through the Victorian age.
They continue to be kept today, and not just at the highest levels of society. Jackie Kennedy Onassis was known to keep similar records of her own; one of my sisters uses Excel.
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Date: 2012-07-15 07:13 pm (UTC)I suspect that many ladies may have simply recorded the gowns and accessories worn by themselves and others in their social diaries, rather than keeping a separate log. So perhaps "social diaries, gowns" might work?
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Date: 2012-07-15 11:08 pm (UTC)(Why I am getting an error msg just about every time I Google, but can manage LJ or DW one try out of two or three, I really don't know. Has all that extra **** the big G is trying to tie to search results made their -reviously slim and trim service eat processor speed, or what?)
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Date: 2012-07-16 08:25 pm (UTC)