Quoting otsisto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I hadn't thought of gores but I think you may be on to something here. This would solve some peoples problems with not having enough fabric of one color. :)
It would be a hoot to do -- and you could carry that picture around with you and say -- "see! here it is -- wierd Italian garb!" :-)
I thought that the dress has a front panel because of the white dots running down the "seam".
I thought that they were buttons!
I haven't seen the weird flemish stuff. Got pictures? :)
Of course! Think about Anne of Cleves dress. If all you knew was English Tudor, you'd swear that was a Fantasy/Allegorical gown. One thing that you see quite a bit in Flemish garb -- that may very well be allegorical is the "overbodice" -- you know like that thing that the Victorians thought was a part of a bliaut? Take the Genealogies of the Kings of Portugal -- symbolic in all probability, but the elements show up a *lot* http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/britishlibrary-store/Components/620/62082_2.jpg my favorite. This was on the cover of the Museum Catalog from the Getty on Flemish Illuminations. Dig the lady in the powder blue dress with overbodice a little over halfway down on the right of the image. http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Paintings/bening_04c_DomFernandoDetail.jpg and on this folio http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/britishlibrary-store/Components/240/24052_2.jpg and detail http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Paintings/bening_05starD_QualityDetail2.jpg http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/britishlibrary-store/Components/34/3463_2.jpg http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/britishlibrary-store/Components/122/12252_2.jpg Virgin with Saints (Barbara & Catherine of Alexandria) http://www.wga.hu/art/b/benson/lou_135.jpg yet another saint -- left panel of triptych http://tinyurl.com/a2z4t and one of my personal favorites -- dig the pink "3 piece suit" on the saint in the right panel http://www.wga.hu/art/m/master/zunk_fl/16_paint/2/05adorat.jpg Elijah & the Widow of Zarapeth -- dig the sleeves http://www.wga.hu/art/m/master/zunk_fl/16_paint/1/04adora2.jpg again symbolic/allegrical, but you got 4 "normal" gowns and that odd thing in the lower left http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Paintings/flemish_CharlesBold.jpg Have I overloaded your Wierd Meter yet? :-D Susan ----- Susan Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Tennessee Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
