Before
heading to England to pick costumes from Cosprop, Lidz made a list of
what she and her colleagues wanted for the show. The harem pants were
high on it.Donna Eyestone has put a lot of miles on her bike traversing
Alameda these past 13 years,wholesale lingerie china and
has made use of the Island's bridges when she had to leave town. So
were pieces worn by the servants. "Maids' costumes changed between the
morning and afternoon, and so did the footmen's," she notes. The height
of staffing at Winterthur coincided with the height of staffing at
English country houses like Downton, but there were trans-Atlantic
distinctions. American central heating, for instance, dictated the
weights of fabrics used in men's suits. American men's bodies were also
distinct from Englishmen's, Lidz observes: "Frankly,They had done their
homework morphsuit, they had talked to the right scholars. they had bigger butts."
"One
of the biggest differences was that, in the U.S., breakfast was usually
served in the rooms," the historian says. "You'd get a tray in the
room, and you'd order it the night before." This practice was so'mon
that the collections at Winterthur include a parody menu, she notes.
Another difference was the American affection for and interest in
technology, and the upper-class British disdain of same. The bell system
at Winterthur was electronic, and elevators were widely used throughout
the 175-room house. "The one really interesting memoir that is explicit
about that is by Lady Diana Cooper, the daughter of the Duke of
Rutland, who was'ing to the U.S. in the Twenties and Thirties," Lidz
says. "There was a distaste at the level of luxury and the mechanical
up-to-dateness in the United States."
Du
Pont was an important collector of European and American art, American
furniture, objects and textiles, and he adapted Winterthur to showcase
his collections. He also added administrative offices and conservation
laboratories to the mansion.We were really impressed by Brett and zentai Gaspar's
ability to tell a really moving story."Each generation of du
Ponts'pletely remade the house," Lidz says. "But after World War II,
Henry Francis du Pont knew that that whole world was gone." Du Pont
turned Winterthur into a house museum in 1951; he then went to live in a
smaller dwelling on the property until his death in 1969. In reading
his correspondence, Lidz was amused and charmed to see how pleased he
was that members of the public were examining his collections. "He was
detailing every day how many people would go through," she says. "He
really enjoyed the fact that things that he treasured were being enjoyed
by a wider public."
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