ROLE MODELS
From left: reenactor Gianna Chachere;
Labrousse’s Costumes de Différents Pays,
“Negres de St. Domingue se Battant au Bâton”
(circa 1797); reenactor Malcolm Suber.COSTUME DRAMA
Clockwise from top center:
reenactor Denise
Frazier; cloth samples for
a reenactor’s regalia;
a contemporary sketch
of a marcher’s attire;
William Kay’s Seamstresses,
St. Kitts, Carribean (1798).All year long, sewing circles have been
finishing costumes in New Orleans.
PORTRAITS BY DAVID HALLIDAY