1. It has modern princess seams. 2. the inner sleeve should not be connected to the outer dress. 3. (minor) laced incorrectly. 4. Has contrasting bias at the hem.
Now for the gores. There are a rare few mid 1400s "Italian" frescos that have what appears to be different colored gores in the dress but not all the way to the waist. they could be different colored fabric sewn in or it could be dags. The only one that I remember going close to the waist was not gores but dags, again "Italian". The "German" dresses that I have seen with what appears to be a gore of a different colour is actually a seam opening/slit and it is on the side. One example that has been debated of dags vs. gores is the scene of St. Mary's birth, the white and red dress. (which I do not have the URL saved to show you) but this dress also has a red front panel. Is the white a coat w/dags held by gold ties onto a red dress or is the red panel a part of the white, w/red gores? It is left to your interpretation of the fresco. The wearer of the dress in question is a patron so that increases the dress as having existed. De -----Original Message----- Zuzana Kraemerova wrote: > By the way, looking at the chimera costumes' web page, is there any historical evidence of this kind of dress: > http://chimera-costumes.co.uk/slideshows/view.php?c=43 ? I mean the gores in the skirt (or lower part of the dress) - does anybody know? > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
