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From: "Robin Netherton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Short sleeves
On Mon, 1 May 2006, Melanie Schuessler wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I know this is brought up every year when it becomes warmer. I'm
> trying to remember if there were some images in some of the Book of
> Hours of women with mid length sleeves on women.
http://www.folkstory.com/images/june.jpg
From the Tres Riches Heures of the Duc de Berry
<snip>
There was indeed a short-sleeved underdress style in the 15th c. that you
see occasionally worn over a chemise with no overlayer. The women doing
fieldwork in the TRH that Melanie points out are wearing something similar
to this, but I have some hesitation about this particular picture because
of the class level depicted in this dress. There are a reasonable number
of images of fieldworkers, and this is the only one I've seen in which
they are wearing fitted short-sleeved dresses. I suspect that they have
been idealized for the purposes of creating an idyllic peasant scene for
the Duke's book. Actual peasants seem more commonly to be dressed as shown
elsewhere in that manuscript -- with looser gowns, and long sleeves.
<snip> --Robin
There's also the early 16th century book of hours by Simon Bening which
shows a very similar style of dress, which you can see here
http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/sca/work/ (the second half of the page the first
half has the Tres Riches Heures)
Elizabeth
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Elizabeth Walpole
Canberra Australia
ewalpole[at]tpg.com.au
http://au.geocities.com/e_walpole/
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