At 15:32 19/09/2007, you wrote:
And lastly, does anyone have leads as to what these jackets might have
looked like before the vogue for the polychrome embroidery as seen in
these paintings and artifacts that have all been dated to 1600 or
later? I'm hoping to figure out what a lady in 1570-80 might have
worn.
alex
There's two monochrome embroidered jackets mentioned on this page,
if it helps
http://www.extremecostuming.com/reproductions/themaidstonejacket.html
but ultimately I think jackets are a very late 16th century
fashion and I'm not sure if they existed in the 1570s.
Elizabeth
The "London" jacket at the Museum of London is dated 1610-15. The
"Maidstone" jacket is dated, if I remember right, 1630. I think that
any jacket earlier than them would have been pretty much the same
shape, as that does not change in the embroidered jackets for up to
60 years or so, depending on location. (In Denmark they appear in
about 1660.) There are plain ones, both wadded and plain, in Holland,
Flanders and the Low Countries throughout the 17th century. I just
wonder if plain ones were used before 1600, and have simply not been
recorded as they were considered to be "ordinary."
Suzi
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