At 9:39 AM -0600 1/29/06, Robin Netherton wrote:
If you were looking for information on 16th c. costume in written sources,
whose research/publications would you seek, other than Janet Arnold's?
Doesn't it kind of depend on exactly what kind of 16th century
costume you were interested in? The answer is going to be different
if you're looking for 16th century Scottish (especially Highland)
costume than if you're looking for 16th century English, or Italian,
etc.
I see in another post you're clarified that you mean "British, but
not just Elizabethan (that is, I'm interested in finding people known
for doing work on the first half of the 16th c.)." -- but I'm not
entirely sure if by this you actually mean British (including not
only Welsh but the various kinds of Scottish) or if you really mean
only English. [Alas, it is so common for people to use British and
English as synonyms that even when people use British to mean British
one often still has to ask...]
In any case, I haven't really noticed anyone currently publishing
academically on 16th century Scottish clothing, and the best sources
for (paper) published information on historical Scottish costume
(from many centuries, though usually but not always concentrating on
Highland clothing) in written sources are still the works of John
Telfar Dunbar and H. F. McClintock (see
<http://MedievalScotland.org/clothing/books/>). Turning to web
publications, there is my Historical Scottish Clothing Project
<http://MedievalScotland.org/clothing/project.shtml>, but it is still
in early stages (and somewhat stalled by my plans to switch to
dynamic database driven web pages) and currently only has a little
that is not already in Dunbar and/or McClintock.
Sharon
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Sharon Krossa, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Resources for Scottish history, names, clothing, language & more:
Medieval Scotland - http://MedievalScotland.org/
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