Shrub or Vinegar Water?

This is interesting information on shrub and vinegar water, which are period drinks.  The second link has many recipes.  Our family usually makes the raspberry vinegar from The Buckeye Cookbook.  We bottle it in this ( http://www.ikea.com/us/en/search/?query=+Bottle+with+stopper ).  The bale comes off the bottle easily and we replace it with a cork.

http://historyhallwayheartburn.blogspot.com/p/m-y-curiosity-i-had-heard-term-shrub.html

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0Rgj6NW1_s6VnBOUWQ4T3VpMU0/edit?pli=1

Stocking Caps and Nightcaps

Paul Cezanne 1866

http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/110000303?rpp=20&pg=1&ft=cap&pos=17


European wool cap, mid 19th century

http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/80011675?rpp=20&pg=2&ft=cap&when=A.D.+1800-1900&pos=31


   http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/80024677?rpp=20&pg=6&ft=cap&when=A.D.+1800-1900&pos=103


  http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/120033021?rpp=20&pg=20&ft=cap&when=A.D.+1800-1900&pos=396

Winter Sewing List

Caps for the Boys
Nightshirt for my Best Beloved
Paletot for me
Wool dress for me
Finish Pookie's wool dress
Little Bear's wool tunic and trousers
Maybe vest and coats for older boys?
Maybe coat for Charlie?
remake Pookie's sortie cap-- I don't like the way hers came out. 

More Mechanic Caps



From The boy's own book
1829
http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA5&id=XiMOAAAAQAAJ#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (1860)

 

Boy's Caps- Caps without a brim

I have also come across quite a few images from brimless caps.  These seem to be for younger boys still in dresses or tunics.  Several of the images are Glengary style caps and demonstrate the interest in things Scottish started by Queen Victoria.

New York Public Library

New York Public Library

New York Public Library

Los Angles Public Library
I love these color images!



Los Angles Public Library

Boy's Caps-- Mechanic's or Wheel caps

Until the recent past people wore all types of headwear.  Nightcaps, hoods, bonnets, and hats-- the vaiety is mind boggling.  Today wearing a hat is relegated to old men and British royality.

As renactors our children frequently get the short end of the stick. They get the make do, make shift, and good enough.  They get faux leather Target lace ups because even if anyone reproduced accurate 19 century shoes, no one would spring $140 for them.  By the same token, my boys are not getting a $120 reproduction nutria felt bowler to go on their unappreciative heads.  Especially since they won't wear it anyway.

I do want the boys to have something on their heads, and this quest has led me to the cloth cap.  Its benefits are many:  It is inexpensive (unlike a felt hat), made of easily attained materials (see earlier comment) and is crushable.  (So is a straw hat . . .  but only once.)





Metropolitian Museum of Art, 1862

 
http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/80030456?rpp=20&pg=2&ft=caps&when=A.D.+1800-1900&where=United+States&what=Costume&pos=37

Cornelius Krieghoff - 1860

Instruction on how to make a cap:

http://theyoungcampaigner.typepad.com/the_young_campaigner/2007/10/make-your-own-m.html

Boy's Caps- Another Common Cap

 

I was searching for original images of boy's caps, I was surprised that the most common style was what we call a "cadet cap." today.  It consist of a band and two peice crown.  The top of the crown in a circle and the side piece is a stright peice the same size as the band.

 

 

Front View
Peterson's Magazine 1859
image found in the Los Angles Public Library

Another front view
New York Public Library

 

 

 

Side View
New youk Public Library

Another side view
Los Angles Public Library