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From: "A & J Garden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Elizabethan Gown question
Hi, thanks for all the help - after spending more time overnight I've
decided to use wine red cotton velveteen as the dress and a different
brocade for the sleeves and underskirt. I'm still using Jean Hunnisett - I
have all the other patterns mentioned but am at a stage these days of
wanting to draft for myself - and I love the style I'm using from Jean's
book. I've got lots of handkerchief linen so will be lining with that, and
a friend made me a tudor chemise earlier this year. I'll be using a
bumroll - I've got a small one from my 18th century gown so I'll see if
that works or make another. I already have a very natural bum/hip/roll!
I will be making a fine lawn partlet and a neck ruff. Its from experience
that I know to have a low neck - even a high necked cotton blouse makes me
overheat - I need air on my skin! I hate thick sleeves so will have to
think about the style there.
Many thanks, Aylwen
I'd say the poly/cotton brocade would create about the same heat as the
cotton velveteen, but I'm aware of the difficulty of obtaining 100% cotton
brocades (I've never seen a 100% cotton fabric with a period motif in any of
the fabric shops around here and I've heard it's much the same elsewhere in
Australia too) For cool sleeves there's always the ever popular Helena
Snakeborg portrait that is so heavily copied by costumers
http://tudor-portraits.com/HelenaSnakeborg.jpg in which the sleeves appear
to be made of the same fabric as the partlet. Much the same style can be
seen in thse portraits of Queen Elizabeth
http://tudor-portraits.com/Elizabeth22.jpg (the famous Pelican portrait of
1575) http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/images/Elizamin01.jpg (a miniature of
1572) http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/images/Eliza40.jpg (in which the sheer
oversleeves are just visible) I'm not sure what you'd do about the
embroidery but it would certainly be cool.
HTH
Elizabeth
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Elizabeth Walpole
Canberra Australia
ewalpole[at]tpg.com.au
http://au.geocities.com/e_walpole/
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