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| Posted by: Ordoc 03:41 am EST 01/08/22 | |
| In reply to: Corsets - AlanScott 09:59 pm EST 01/07/22 | |
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| Really? Are you a student of the history of women's restroom habits in theatres? What pray tell are you doing lurking around women's restrooms. | |
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| re: Corsets and quotes | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 07:41 pm EST 01/08/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Corsets - Ordoc 03:41 am EST 01/08/22 | |
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| Here are a few quotes, two from the New York Times and one from NPR. The first is from an article titled ”Giving Broadway a Makeover, Ladies' Rooms First,” by Glenn Collins, published in the Times on August 9, 2001. This was said by Francesca Russo, described in the article as ”the city's reigning Broadway-renovation architect”: ”When many theaters were originally designed, men had smoking rooms, and women, they had fainting rooms. They were bound in their corsets, which were so tight they couldn't go to the bathroom. And they did faint.” Here is another from the Times. This one is from an article by Michael Paulson titled ”Have to Go at a Show? Hurry Up, Or Hold It” that was in the edition dated February 12, 2017: ”Most Broadway theaters were built in the early 20th century, and featured spaces where men could smoke and women could rest or touch up their makeup, but limited stalls, because women, based on the customs of the times and the complexity of their undergarments (corsets, anyone?), were less likely to use public toilets, theater owners say.” This is from an ”All Things Considered” segment on New York City's passage of the Women's Equity Restroom Act, which aired on NPR on June 10, 2005. This was said by Vicki Revere, author of Where to Go: A Guide To Manhattan's Toilets: ”In the late 19th century, women were dressed up like pieces of furniture. With all their undergarments and corsets and truss work and long gowns, they couldn't get in and out of the clothes by themselves. So women were trained from an early age that it was improper to use a public facility.” |
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| re: Corsets | |
| Posted by: Alcindoro 06:56 am EST 01/08/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Corsets - Ordoc 03:41 am EST 01/08/22 | |
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| AlanScott has been one of the most valued and knowledgeable contributors to this site for decades. Judging by your small minded response, you clearly are not aware of this. If you have any experience in period costume design or the wearing of period costumes you would know that this is a valid subject. Look it up. Wait. I'll do it for you. | |
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| re: Corsets | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 07:46 pm EST 01/08/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Corsets - Alcindoro 06:56 am EST 01/08/22 | |
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| Thanks so much for the kind words and the link. Will have to watch that. | |
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| re: Corsets | |
| Posted by: keywslt 09:58 am EST 01/08/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Corsets - Alcindoro 06:56 am EST 01/08/22 | |
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| While your defense is admirable and your research sound, we must consider the possibility that AlanScott has been lurking in the under belly of Theatre since the mid 1800's. Observing and taking copious notes, staving off scurvy, and hob-knobbing with Bernhardt, Booth and both Lunts. This, really, is the only reasonable explanation for his vast erudition of the subject. I believe his first post here on ATC was presented in a linotype format. | |
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| re: Corsets | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 07:45 pm EST 01/08/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Corsets - keywslt 09:58 am EST 01/08/22 | |
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| LOL. Alas, I have been lurking in the under belly of Theatre only since the mid-1960s so I missed Bernhardt, Booth and both Lunts, the last of whom I am particularly sorry to have missed. | |
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| re: Corsets | |
| Posted by: Clancy 11:13 am EST 01/08/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Corsets - keywslt 09:58 am EST 01/08/22 | |
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| Don't exaggerate. Mr. Scott merely Mimeographed. | |
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| re: Corsets | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 07:47 pm EST 01/08/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Corsets - Clancy 11:13 am EST 01/08/22 | |
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| Oh, I love that smell. I miss it. | |
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| Here ya go, Alan! | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 08:02 pm EST 01/08/22 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 08:01 pm EST 01/08/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Corsets - AlanScott 07:47 pm EST 01/08/22 | |
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| Sorry this website isn't broadcast in Smell-O-Vision or Odorama, though! :) | |
| Link | Mimeographs: The Classroom Chore that Smelled So Good |
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| re: Corsets | |
| Posted by: Alcindoro 02:24 pm EST 01/08/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Corsets - Clancy 11:13 am EST 01/08/22 | |
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| Ha ha! At any rate, Ordoc pissed me off. | |
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