Yes! That is it. Thank you. I love that dress and hope to make one like it - next year -when all the wedding stuff is done and I've had time to breathe and play in some of my other hobbies. Annette M (soon to be T) ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Message: 1 Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:44:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Robin Netherton Subject: Re: [h-cost] Robin Netherton/GFD and other lectures To: Historical Costume Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Kahlara wrote: > Wow, they were great. Very informative. I am sure she has saved me a > lot of time, frustration and money. I'm glad I put off making my dress > until after I went to the lectures. It also helped me narrow the > period of everyone else's clothing, as most of the women have picked a > variation of the GFD already! I'm so happy to hear this! I'm looking forward to seeing the pictures. The camera hates me and I have become used to that; every professional photographer I've been worked with has commented on it. (And people have been known to blurt out on first meeting, "Wow, you look so much better than your pictures!") As long as I think they aren't misleading about the costumes, though, and they don't break any copyright laws, I'll be happy for you to post them after I've seen them. > Robin - there was one painting you used for reference that depicted > several sleeve types, including a woman kneeling in the background > wearing a dark blue gown with white tippets. What is that > painting/illumination? and is it easily found either online or in a > book somewhere? I had a lot of sleeve examples, but only one I can think of with a kneeling woman with tippets; that would be the April calendar page from the Tres Riches Heures: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/images/heures/april.jpg Is that it? I believe this is the latest example, by far, that I've seen of tippets, which were out of fashion by a decade or two at the time of this painting (about 1410-15). It may be that this was a deliberate reference to a known person known to the patron (e.g. an older family member shown in her youth, or someone who had died earlier). I've never seen anyone discuss it, and I suspect that a costume archaism of a generation or less goes unnoticed by most art historians. --Robin --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail goes everywhere you do. Get it on your phone. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
