I'm a bit behind in my emails, but I hope those images of the loose pockets help. The book doesn't state much beyond what I posted, tho I haven't read it all yet, so I may have missed a comment elsewhere in the book.
The earliest I've found comments on 16th century pockets in general were from the trial of Anne Boleyn, when one of her supposed lovers Wyatt claimed that Anne had given him a jewel (or something) from her pocket. What the pocket looked like or how it was accessed, I do not know. The story was mentioned briefly in the book Dress in the Court of King Henry VIII, but the author did not go into any details on pockets (much to my surprise). Doing a quick google search, Jstor has the article that mentions the Anne Boleyn story, but I don't have access to those articles. The Fall of Anne Boleyn G. W. Bernard http://www.jstor.org/pss/573258 Also, there is an image of an attached pocket on a man's jacket skirt in the Mary Rose book (name escapes me, but the one that has all the extant items in it). I think I've wandered a different direction on pockets, so I will end here. Kimiko --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But I love these pictures, because they do predate > the 1700s, and the "pouches" do so much resemble > 18th century pockets in shape and style. I wanted to > see the whole paintings, and fortunately Kimiko > uploaded scans: > http://www.kimiko1.com/research-16th/ModaFirenze/index.html > She quoted a bit of what _Moda a Firenze_ had to say > about these pocket-pouches, which the above website > appears also to be quoting, and when I have a chance > I'll have to crack open my copy and read up on it > myself. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
