The author of this page, you'll notice, is the same Drea Leed whose book you'ere looking for. she's also on this list, though I haven't seen her name recently. Yes, she is very good for this stuff.
For 17th century particularly, look at genre paintings buy Jan Steen and others. If you don't see a lot of difference between 1540 and 1670, it's safe to say peasant clothes didn't change much over that stretch of time. MaggiRos --- Zuzana Kraemerova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I have the Tudor tailor, it's currently the > best thing I could find, but still I'd like to find > something that goes more in detail (about > lower-class dresses) and also something about 17th > century (which might be quite a problem, maybe 18th > century would not be very different - concerning > peasants' dress???) > > Is this: > > http://www.elizabethancostume.net/lowerclass/flemish-dress.html > > the text that is also in the book "The well dressed > peasant"? Or does the book contain more than is on > the website? > > Thanks, > > Zuzana > > > --------------------------------- > Got a little couch potato? > Check out fun summer activities for kids. > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > Vikings? What Vikings? We are but poor, simple farmers. The village was burning when we got here. Anon. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
