Finally got off the couch, where I've been under covers trying to get past this head cold. Still sick, and coughing, but I was bored.

So, I need to be working on early 16th c. English hoods, which ended up being Anne of Brittany style of hood, for an upcoming event in a couple of weeks. So, I took out my pattern sets, Tudor Costuming book, my web ( Read more... )

Gads, while my 'net connection has been down more often than, er, nevermind... I've been getting a head cold it seems. I keep sneezing a lot today, and am feeling very cold warm right now ( Read more... )

So, I've been looking at various illuminations for early 1500s, late 1400s, trying to figure out what the black garment that is seen in this example image might be. Is it a partlet? Is it an underkirtle? This is something that myladyswardrobe originally brought up in her LJ, but since we both are pondering early 1500s right now, it's been perculating at the back ( Read more... )

Courtesy of myladyswardrobe. I must get the catalog!

http://www.abegg-stiftung.ch/e/museum/sonderaus/2008/bilder.html
2008
Bourgeois Pride and Princely Splendour.
Costumes from the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century20 April - 2 November 2008 ( Read more... )

For my own record

Madeleine of France (1520-1537), at about the age of 1.5-2, maybe 3.

I wonder if I could make this for my daughter (or will she have outgrown it by the time I am done.)

I am going to try to screen capture the zoomed images if I can.

Ok, this next post may throw a frenzy... but I have been thinking (oh, no, there she goes "thinking" again). And it came from a comment from florentinescot. "LOL. Wouldn't it be funny if we were really wearing the "jeans and t-shirts" of The Period (tm) instead of the Sunday Best! *giggle*" ( rambles behind here... )

Just putting down a few links for future memory needs, on that short over long thing going on.

And hsifeng, I am desirous of coming to your place sometime, in a researching frenzy/hunt, as things are pointing to Germany or Italy as the source for some of the designs we are seeing. When you have time (not in a hurry, in other words).

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The Tudor Effigies site is back up (for me at least), so I was able to access the one and only effigy monument (not in brass) I have found so far.


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I just found this quote while reading my book "Dress in the Court of King Henry VIII".
"The idea of conspicuous waste or the use of excessive fabric in garments, either through pleating or lengthy trains, has been considered by a number of authors. Anne Hollander has linked the excessive use of fabric in the Renaissance period clothing to the fact ( Read more... )

( It got kinda longish... )