The over sleeve has a fitted upper half with a bell shaped lower half. If
you can find Jean Hunnisett's "Period Costume for Stage and Screen,
1500-1800" that's probably the most comprehensive resource on constructing a
Tudor outfit (http://www.longago.com/bookstore3.html is the only place
selling it at a reasonable price that I know of). However, she is a
theatrical costumer so she does take some shortcuts. For example, she
suggests cutting your skirt as one large rectangle with pleats to create the
fashionable cone shape, however virtually all of the surviving 16th century
garments and tailor's books suggest a gored skirt with trapezoid shaped
pieces. If you can't get your hands on a copy of Jean Hunnisett's book you
can find a basic pattern for the outer sleeves here
http://www.livinghistory.co.uk/homepages/tudorcostumes/howtosleeves.html
(though you'll have to make up your own variations where the book provides
you with several) Jean Hunisett suggests cutting the sleeves on the bias,
which does allow for the sleeves to drape down much further (the line marked
C on this diagram
http://www.livinghistory.co.uk/homepages/tudorcostumes/oversleevepattern.jpg)
because obviously the distance corner to corner is longer than one side. For
the undersleeves you'll find a pattern very similar to Jean Hunnisett's here
http://www.livinghistory.co.uk/homepages/tudorcostumes/Bess_page3weddingGowndiary.html
I've found the most reliable way to secure my undersleeves is to temporarily
hand stitch them to the short sleeves of my kirtle (my dress diary for my
current kirtle is here http://au.geocities.com/e_walpole/kirtle/kirtle.htm
I've found the front lacing shows up as lumps beneath my gown so my next one
will have back or maybe side lacing) and then to switch undersleeves I just
unpick the stitching (although if I'm wearing the kirtle alone with the
fitted lower sleeves I pin them on)
Hope that helps
Elizabeth
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Elizabeth Walpole | Lady Elizabeth Beaumont
Canberra, Australia | Politarchopolis, Lochac
ewalpole[at]tpg.com.au
http://au.geocities.com/e_walpole/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Becky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 8:25 AM
Subject: [h-cost] Princess Elizabeth
My daughter has chosen the portrait of young Princess Elizabeth for her
costume. It is the pink one, Flemish School 1546-1547.
Can anyone tell me what colors the sleeves and the front panel are? They
seem very pink to me. http://www.sapphireandsage.com/necklaces.html
I can't tell if it has a round or pointed bodices. What do you call these
kind of sleeves. Any suggestions of how to make of pattern for the sleeves?
I found several sites that had sleeve variations but none like these.
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