>> Bunching the skirt nowadays, would be acceptable. Victorian/Edwardian period, safe to say not! <<
Point.
>> It's actually been a pretty fun exhibition to work on - there was a cycling cafe based out the building in the 1900s so we could tell that story. I had an excuse to read a lot of literature that features cycling. <<
That is so cool. I'm glad people are keeping history alive.
Literature, hrm, there were knights on bicycles in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Then in Turtledove's WorldWar series, there are several places where characters travel on bicycles because that's all that is available with so much of the infrastructure smashed or in alien hands.
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dancing_serpent
Re: Wow!
Date: 2014-07-07 07:55 pm (UTC)Point.
>> It's actually been a pretty fun exhibition to work on - there was a cycling cafe based out the building in the 1900s so we could tell that story. I had an excuse to read a lot of literature that features cycling. <<
That is so cool. I'm glad people are keeping history alive.
Literature, hrm, there were knights on bicycles in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Then in Turtledove's WorldWar series, there are several places where characters travel on bicycles because that's all that is available with so much of the infrastructure smashed or in alien hands.