ohnoes, Costume Nazi!! Run for the hills!!! Kidding, kidding...I do believe we are capable of having a costume discussion, though I will admit I am merciless in Ren Faire costume-snarking (very quietly and only to my friends, of course)!
I probably ought to have mentioned this sketch before, when I put up the sketch of Thomas More's family, but I forgot - Lord knows we haven't got too many views of the backs of gowns in portraits and such (how inconsiderate! Didn't Holbein etc. know that fanatical costumers would be attempting to reproduce the clothing they painted 500 years ago?!), but I do have this one in my rather scanty collection of 16thc images: http://pics.livejournal.com/mandie_rw/pic/0008b7ea
I believe it's from about 1535 (or so the site I got it from apparently told me), England. And I could be wrong - tell me what you think! - but I don't see a back fastening. Of course, neither do I see a front fastening. A side-back lacing could possibly be hidden under the veil (STUPID VEIL, GET OUT OF MY WAY), but I feel like that would mess with the set of the gigantor sleeve too much.
Tell me what you see in that sketch! I do love discussing the whys and wherefores of we-don't-really-know-100%-how-they-did-it clothing!
(And like you said, it's ultimately for a Ren Faire, and really, we should just be happy that I'll be one less wildly-inappropriately-boob-tastic person there! I mean, not that that's exactly possible for me...and actually that lady in the sketch is far more boobtastic than I am, heh.)
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ohnoes, Costume Nazi!! Run for the hills!!! Kidding, kidding...I do believe we are capable of having a costume discussion, though I will admit I am merciless in Ren Faire costume-snarking (very quietly and only to my friends, of course)!
I probably ought to have mentioned this sketch before, when I put up the sketch of Thomas More's family, but I forgot - Lord knows we haven't got too many views of the backs of gowns in portraits and such (how inconsiderate! Didn't Holbein etc. know that fanatical costumers would be attempting to reproduce the clothing they painted 500 years ago?!), but I do have this one in my rather scanty collection of 16thc images: http://pics.livejournal.com/mandie_rw/pic/0008b7ea
I believe it's from about 1535 (or so the site I got it from apparently told me), England. And I could be wrong - tell me what you think! - but I don't see a back fastening. Of course, neither do I see a front fastening. A side-back lacing could possibly be hidden under the veil (STUPID VEIL, GET OUT OF MY WAY), but I feel like that would mess with the set of the gigantor sleeve too much.
Tell me what you see in that sketch! I do love discussing the whys and wherefores of we-don't-really-know-100%-how-they-did-it clothing!
(And like you said, it's ultimately for a Ren Faire, and really, we should just be happy that I'll be one less wildly-inappropriately-boob-tastic person there! I mean, not that that's exactly possible for me...and actually that lady in the sketch is far more boobtastic than I am, heh.)