Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm hoping that the _Tudor Tailor_ book that's coming out soon will
answer these questions. Based on my perusal of portraits the
Farthingale layer is optional -- c1530 most portraits don't show it,
however by 1545, the royal family at least is wearing farthingales.
Supposedly farthingales were introduced into England by Catharine of
Aragon, but they don't seem to have caught on immediately. According
to Ninya, "The first farthingale mentioned in England was in the
Royal Wardrobe accounts in 1545 for Princess Elizabeth"
Ninya Mikhaila's site is the only reference I've seen to the odd red
bodice/wool skirt/petticoat thing. Awhile ago she had a pdf on her
website (which I can no longer find on-line; it was titled
"Background and references to the reproduction of the costume worn by
Princess Elizabeth in the 1546 portrait at Windsor" and the name of
the pdf was Sources_for_Elizabeth.pdf) that did talk a little about
the petticoat:
google is your friend! I went and poked around the Internet Archive
(aka The Wayback Machine) with no success and then just googled for the
title!
http://www.ninyamikhaila.com/Images/Sources_for_Elizabeth.pdf
Susan
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Susan Farmer
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University of Tennessee
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/
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