E House wrote:
No offense meant, but I just don't buy it. =} If the seam were far enough up to be concealed by the oversleeve, the whole look/drape would be changed. Even with really careful tailoring and stretching of the bias, a circle-on-a-tube type of sleeve just doesn't give the same shape as one that flares out right at the end. It just looks wrong.
I'm sorry, I'm not sure which idea you're not buying? However, if it were flared on the whole length, it wouldn't be bunched up around her right hand like that -- it would trail back inside the red sleeve. Those folds are so even, I don't think a flare at the end would produce them, only a circle sewn on. What sort of flare are you thinking of? One which drops down from the arm, or one which also goes upward? Here's a far less lush flare at the wrist: http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/sca/images/hecyra1.jpg
It'll take an extant garment or a clear image of the flared sleeve with a seam to convince me.
Sigh of general agreement!
(That black stuff on the gold lining of her left sleeve doesn't look like stitching to me; it's repeated much lower down on the same lining portion, near the edge. It looks more like some characteristic of the fabric/fur; perhaps a variation on ermine patterning.
Agreed. -- Cynthia Virtue and/or Cynthia du Pre Argent _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
