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Posted by Phaedrine Stonebridge on May 10, 2008, 10:55 pm
> On Sat, 10 May 2008 09:07:33 -0500, Phaedrine Stonebridge
>
> > Last time I saw the term "broadfall" was at the Amish store. I'm just
> > betting you know what petzing is too.
>
> According to Google, it's a surname.
Petzing is often done with a dull knife or bone scraper. It is a
technique used, on the white organdy caps worn by married Amish women,
to form tiny pleats and fullness in the cap. Without damaging the
fabric of course.
So many arts nearly lost....
> I did get the broadfall idea from a Friends pattern, but broadfall
> pants were common farmers' clothes in the -- I think it was
> seventeenth century, giving way to narrowfall pants in the eighteenth.
> I never cared enough to track it down.
>
> I did learn that there are broadfalls constructed on a different
> principle, with a button-together yoke called "bearers" under the
> flap, and pockets, if any, as an afterthought. The example I found on
> the Web had a pocket like a vest pocket in one of the "bearers".
>
> Just checked Wikipedia to see whether someone else had done the
> research, but the only place "broadfall" appears is in the article on
> U.S. Navy uniforms.
>
> And Google served up my own web page. Plus some unsupported
> assertions that broadfalls were popular from 1700 to the middle of the
> nineteenth century. And one unsupported assertion that fashion
> switched back and forth between broadfall and narrow fall whenever
> people got bored. I'm none too sure what "narrow fall" is.
There are some men's fashions I wish would come back. The high collar
and cravat for instance. :)
Phae
--
"The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time
with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson
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