Comments | kimikosews: Lady Audley's gown

kimikosews

Lady Audley's gown

Jul 16, 2009 19:22

I am working on adjusting all of my images of hoods during the Henrician era, for CoCo, to save as a tiff file. I just noticed a certain clothing detail as I was working on this image.

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painting, research

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margorose July 17 2009, 05:04:38 UTC

Oh, NOW you find this. (tears hair out).

But I still like you. :)

It's possible to cut a bodice with the "effigy" style shoulder strap, wrapping over the shoulder from the back, and have it attach near the armpit. It works better on slender figures than on voluptuous ones. If you did it that way, and then did the construction method where the sleeve is made up and lined, and then slipstitched over the strap so it's concealed, you could get this look.

I'm interested in her foresleeves. They look to me like gold silk, shirred or gathered, with a crosshatching of black velvet ribbon. But I'm all too aware that it's easy to put my own interpretation on these things.

kimikosews July 17 2009, 05:07:38 UTC

Yep, sorry I didn't see this earlier. And yeah pretty foresleeves. Sort of reminds me of certain partlets that are in fashion a few decades later.

lorihalia July 17 2009, 06:24:19 UTC

Kass has a rather interesting and seemingly viable answer to this.. She'd tested it with a gown she made this past winter. I suggest talking to her about it, I seem to recall the sleeves almost ended up 'shrug-like'. I'm sure she'd be happy to explain. =)

kimikosews July 17 2009, 06:33:30 UTC

I have read her posts as she worked on it, and made comments. Even helped her out with some of the details as we pondered together on it. It was her recreation of Catherine of Aragon's gown from the early 1500s.

The details in the sleeves are similar, and her final method was similar to the idea I had from years ago. She even posted an image I hadn't seen prior to her work, that might help to explain some of it, but I am not positive if it explains it all.