Origin of the American Use of Dungarees

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/4/2009 12:13 AM, Mark Mandel wrote:
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>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.
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>What's the difference between impressionists and reenactors?

impressionists : reeneactors :: Claude Monet : Dorothea Lange

Joel



>Mark Mandel
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