faire dress

[robinsnest]

Yes I'm pondering my dress for faire this year...It's the only definiate plan I have and I want to make something really fabulous.

So I was pretty sure I wanted to make a plate dress like this portrait. It's 1603 which is pushing the very end of my time period here, but I want to make a plate and I am much more drawn to the later portraits. I also find This portrait really interesting, I haven't seen any other bodice pointed to the skirt. Accept maybe the woman with the cream doublet and red velvet skirt that I of course cannot find online at this moment. She's in POF and QEW. Anyone know anything more about her? where I could find a color photo?


But while perusing the met looking for something for shelly I found This portrait. and I have to say I'm very intrigued, it's unlike anything I've seen before, it's very pretty and I want to know more about it

Comments

[operafantomet.livejournal.com]

I agree about that Met portrait! Very unique in style, and very different from other portraits I've seen.

Closest I can think of, is one of Lavinia Fontana from the 1580's, but there the front V and short sleeves are clearly made of a doublet or zimarra-like white garb over a rust/orange petticoat.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/bologne/fontana1580s.jpg

The portrait you found seems to have a bodice made of two very different materials; the front is of white silk with "conventionally placed" repeated in the skirt and bodice as well. But the side of the bodice seems to be made of another fabric, extending into short sleeves. The sleeves seems a midge bigger over the upper arm than the white ones, so the construction might be a doublet-like construction, almost the pre-runner of the Mantua. But it is very different from other stuff I've seen, especially in this time period.

Thanks for sharing!

[sewloud.livejournal.com]

I hadn't thought that it might be built with the white as an under doublet, I went to the Stomacher and under sleeves place. But I had just been looking at lots of late 1590s portraits which have those long boned stomachers...hmmm I need to find out more about this portrait.