Origin of the American Use of Dungarees

[Mark Mandel]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Carter Rila <elcutachero at yahoo.com> wrote:
> In recent years the hobby of impressionism has become popular. Original war=
> time garments are scarce and now are collectable as artifacts. In addition,=
>  with the modern diet few can wear the sizes of those days. So most cannot =
> wear their original unforms even if they still have them. Impressionists pu=
> t on demonstrations and wear exact replicas of everything from the skin out=
> . They also use replica weapons in the case of the Civil War dor the origin=
> als have so much value as collectables. This has been true since the late f=
> ifties.

What's the difference between impressionists and reenactors?

Mark Mandel

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