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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 2337838, member: 2844&quot;]In a similar vein, I have often wondered if the women actually wore the &#039;gazen muts&#039; bonnet while eating a meal of potatoes. It would be interesting to know what kind of day it was.</p><p>According to the Vincentre (Vincent van Gogh Centre) 19th century Brabant farmers ate 4-6 times a day, with at least two potato meals. Maybe eating this particular potato meal while wearing a gazen muts made sense at the time.</p><p>A gazen muts would be bought from a &#039;mutsenmaakster&#039;, a lady who specialized in making local bonnets.</p><p><br /></p><p>About a posh lamp, it didn&#039;t look really posh to me, so I did some internet digging.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a Brabant family in 1914, admittedly after the date of the Potato Eaters, but the woman is wearing a simple home crocheted bonnet instead of a gazen muts or other professionally made bonnet, so they had no money to spare for luxury:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]260418[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>These two photos are not of Brabant farmers, but of the poorest of the poor in an Amsterdam slum in the late 19th century. In the first one there is an oil lamp on the cabinet on the right:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]260422[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://www.tussentaalenbeeld.nl/A60f6.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.tussentaalenbeeld.nl/A60f6.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.tussentaalenbeeld.nl/A60f6.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]260423[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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