Scandinavian gowns in the late 17th and early 18th century.

[isiswardrobe]

The more I dig into fashion history, the more interested I get in what was actually worn here, in Sweden, where I live. It’s not altogether easy to find information about that. So I have been very happy in diffing into a Danish website: Dragter på epitafier og gravsten i Danmark (Costumes on epitaphs and tombs in Denmark). There are even a few

Comments

[jenthompson]

Those are such beautiful images! Thank-you for sharing them!

I totally cracked up over the one of the lady with the 4 daughters who all have the exact same face. I can't decide if that's just a lazy artist who reused the same template over and over again, or a vain mom who insisted that her daughters all look exactly like her.

[isiswardrobe]

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

I think the reason to why some of these people looks so alike is that many of the portraits are epitaphs and painted after the subject has died, or, in case of children, grown up and moved away. I'm not sure if this was really made outside Scandinavia, but it's very common to find memrial portraits in old churches, some painted from Life, some not. There's a pretyy interesting 18th Century painting of a priest and his family where the Children who had died are in the Picture too, but their faces are half-hidden or turned away.

[starlightmasque]

Thanks for a great post! It was a perfect read alongside my morning coffee.

[isiswardrobe]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! :)

[nuranar]

So many lovely portraits. The lace! The ribbons! I can't get over how shiny Anne Christensdatter Søe's ensemble is. Lots of silver!

[isiswardrobe]

I'm glad you enjoyed the post! And I want Anne Christensdatter Søe's gown! :)