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Hats, Headwear and Masculinity in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Fortuna and virtù: Embodying Classical Concepts in Renaissance Armour
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Sittingbourne Bodies Pattern, c. 1630-50

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One of my favourite photographs of my reconstructed 1660s outfit ... but make it a fresco 🎨 🖼

Just received my copy of Timothy McCall’s new book, ‘Brilliant Bodies: fashioning courtly men in early Renaissance Italy’.

A little outtake of my friend Izzy from a shoot we did a couple of years ago. Edited with the @prequelapp app

Okay so I’m officially addicted to the “canvas” and “Renaissance” filters on @prequelapp app. Shoutout to @couturecourtesan for introducing me to it. Expect a lot of filtered pics incoming 😆

Bents vs synthetic whalebone in a pair of mid-17th century bodies.

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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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