Kimiko, Thank you for the information and the picture of the effigy. My personna in the sca is around the 1530's in England as nobility, but my general interest is in the period of the gable headresses. There isn't very much primary documentation that I've been aable to find on this period. I do have the tudor Tailor aand really enjoy it. Thanks for the information. Lynn
Kimiko Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Lynn, As far as I understand, smocks (aka chemises) were not as long as to the floor, but usually somewhere around the knee length, maybe to ankles. I am no expert on smocks, tho. Her status I think is that of gentlewoman, which may or may not be noble in birth, but of higher station than most of the people. However, the husband is not noted as being knight, but their son was a knight. She is noted as being the heir to a named estate, which might mean she was the daughter of a wealthy merchant (and sole surviving heir?) They were at least wealthy enough to purchase an effigy monument. It would be a guess, unless one wanted to hunt that particular family down (and Jane has listed the sources she used). As to how common this style was? Not very common I think, but that's why I am hunting them down to find out. It is not a style I've seen often in images, but then I've not paid direct attention, until recently. The problem with this time frame (roughly 1510-1540ish), is that individual people portraits, unless a group image of some sort, often are of a person from the waist up, so lower body details were not painted. Finding the exceptions can prove very helpful. If you haven't gotten it yet, may I suggest checking out the book called the Tudor Tailor, written by Dr. Jane Malcolm-Davies and Ninya Mikhaila. It will give you a good background of info, as well as some scaled patterns of the Tudor period. Kimiko --- Lynn Roth wrote: > I found the original post. The effergy is from > c1535 and is of Edith Pexall nee Brocas. This was > noted by Dr. Jane Malcolm Davies. On first look I > thought it might be a fold in the kirtle at least > thats what it looked like to me. The kirtle looks > almost to long almost as if it were more a > nightgown(Chemise) and a kirtle over it? I was just > wondering if kimiko or someone could give me more > info on Edith Pexall also such as her status > (Nobility?). I'm just very interested in this time > period of history and its dress. Thanks, Lynn Ps > How common was this in period? ____________________________________________________________________________________ OMG, Sweet deal for Yahoo! users/friends:Get A Month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. W00t http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text2.com _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
