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Originally posted by Jack Manfred
Those costumes you posted resemble those (briefly) worn by the ladies of Deja Vu, not the women of the RSC production of Twelfth Night.
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See, I think the costumes I posted might be rather closer in resemblance to those worn by women at masques in Shakespeare's time (and later) than those worn by the RSC these days. We've gotten awfully prudish. There are wonderful descriptions to be found of the costumes at private (and sometimes public) masques in the 17th and 18th centuries - a lot of them sound rather suspiciously like those worn by Vegas showgirls what with the headresses and bare breasts and all.
BR(not to mention the public sex with strangers with attendant voyerism, etc)C
