Anything is possible Melody! There are no extant Venetian gowns of the 16th century to look at, as far as I'm aware, so anything that works to get the bodice/sleeves to look like that is good, in my opinion. I love to see how people deal with design issues, and non-existant shoulder straps is an idea that I've heard put forward before! :-)
Bella ----- Original Message ---- From: Melody Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Historical Costume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 5 July, 2007 3:40:04 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Slashed skirts (was 1620 dress images?) a new question about th is... http://realmofvenus.renaissanceitaly.net/wardrobe/FrancoF1.jpg After looking at the drawings, I began to wonder, were the sleeves possibly made seperate from the bodice and perhaps pinned onto the chemise,level with the bodice top , to look like they were connected? I'd like to try an Italian but so many things about them I find confusing, melody ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo!7 Mail has just got even bigger and better with unlimited storage on all webmail accounts. http://au.docs.yahoo.com/mail/unlimitedstorage.html _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
