The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #142461   Message #3285345
Posted By: MGM·Lion
05-Jan-12 - 01:37 PM
Thread Name: Treasure Island
Subject: RE: Treasure Island
Indeed, Dave; tho I think the wigs would have made it all seem more authentic. & at what point does a production set in C18, mentioning a specific battle of 1745, Fontenoy, cease to wish to appear a 'factual piece of costume drama'?; they dressed them in an approximation of the clothes of the time, did they not? ~~ like the man in your portrait - who appears to be an American visitor; and I think he has a wig on, tho it is not powdered as an English gentleman's might well have been. I am not sure what the expectations of a visiting American might have been at the time.

~M~