Re: place to get drawers and socks.
Todd,
Thank you for your excellent post. Your information conforms to mine in nearly every detail.
Josh,
You state, "While there is no 100% account of this shirt exsisting anywhere other than in the museum, I feel the construction techniques are dead on with the time period we portray."
While I'm sure the construction techniques in the reproduction you own are period, that is only one piece of the puzzle. In order for an item to be an authentic reproduction, it must be correct in materials, pattern and construction.
That said, if the shirt is not patterned off an original, then at best any reproduction of it can only be correct in materials and perhaps construction. If the undershirt is indeed a conjectural reconstruction of a "typical example" as evidence seems to indicate it was, then no reproduction of it can by definition be considered an authentic reproduction as the original garment copied was never "an original" in the first place.
Todd,
Thank you for your excellent post. Your information conforms to mine in nearly every detail.
Josh,
You state, "While there is no 100% account of this shirt exsisting anywhere other than in the museum, I feel the construction techniques are dead on with the time period we portray."
While I'm sure the construction techniques in the reproduction you own are period, that is only one piece of the puzzle. In order for an item to be an authentic reproduction, it must be correct in materials, pattern and construction.
That said, if the shirt is not patterned off an original, then at best any reproduction of it can only be correct in materials and perhaps construction. If the undershirt is indeed a conjectural reconstruction of a "typical example" as evidence seems to indicate it was, then no reproduction of it can by definition be considered an authentic reproduction as the original garment copied was never "an original" in the first place.
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