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Elizabeth I Effigy Bodies Reconstruction | Part One: The Pattern & Materials
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Rebato Collar, c. 1600-1625 | Part One: Brief History and Materials

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Decorative motifs of Rome, Siena and Florence

Pleats and flounces at the Uffizi in Florence for day 26 of #fallforcostume2022 #pleats #flounces #renaissance #renaissanceitaly #16thcentury

Day 14 of #fallforcostume2022 is “colours” and I’m still in love with this colour combo 2 years later 😍😍

#fallforcostume2022 day 10 is ‘foundations’ … I wrote a book all about foundation garments of the 16th and 17th centuries and it came out last year!

I’m extremely late to #fallforcostume2022 but what a better way to start than day 9 of “shapes and patterns”. Please enjoy my paper mock-up of a pair of 18th century stays, drawn up from an original in a Canadian collection, which was examined by @dressesbodieshistories . These are the pink pair I’ve shown in previous posts.

Details from a hand-painted 18th century gauze fan at @centreforfashion

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Bodies or Stays? Underwear or Outerwear? Seventeenth-century Foundation Garments explained.
Randle Holme’s The Academy of Armory (1688) and late Seventeenth-century Women’s Dress Terminology
Back to Basics: The Smock in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Looking at 1630s English Fashions through Wenceslaus Hollar’s Ornatvs Mvluebris Anglicanus
The tailoring Trade in Seventeenth-Century Oxford – Tales from the Bodleian Archive.
The sixteenth-century Vasquine / Basquine: A corset, farthingale or Kirtle?

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