In a message dated 10/6/2006 11:29:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The link to the Clouet drawings made me start looking > for this picture again. It was years ago, now, that I > asked about it and no one knew what I was talking > about. But today I found it. This is a drawing of > Admiral Coligny (1519 - 1572) from the 1560s or so, I > think, with the most pecularly cut doub let you've > ever seen. > > http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~lavoicy/poissy/coligny.JPG ****************************************************************************** ***** Interesting. I wonder if it's a jerkin all closed up, not really a doublet. [there's a collar sandwiched between the large collar and the shirt collar. Could that be a doublet collar?] and can be worn open with the double breasted like overlap turned back like reevers. There's no way to tell, that I can see, that it's got an underlap with buttons on it. [there is a big round thingie, but I think that's some kind of medallion] But with or without buttons, it seem more logical to me that the fronts are cut symmetrically. It could be the top of a long robe too, y'know. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
