I don't know if the fashion lasted as late as 1640. I know that it was current from approximately 1530 (there's a painting of Jane Seymour where she is wearing a jeweled IHS brooch) thru the late Elizabethan/Jacobean. I'd take a look at period portraiture and check thru some inventories to see if they were stll doing it pre-Civil War. Karen Seamstrix
-- "Kate M Bunting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ------------------------------ Karen wrote: >I think that you have a good idea about the skirt but you may be a bit off >base on the necklace. If you look >closely at the vertical elements you can see they form the initials I and H. >In period it was >common/fashionable to wear the symbol of 'IHS' which are the Latin initials of >Jesus. It was particularly used in >the Protestant countries (I'm most >familiar with England) because wearing a crucifix was out of favor as >being too Papist. Personally, I think this is the most likely explanation >although the wearing of initials/symbols of >significant people is not out of >the question. That's interesting. My living history persona is the widow of a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal in the 1640s. I've wondered about wearing a cross, but decided against it as I felt that it would have been considered "too Papist" at the time. Kate Bunting Cataloguing & Data Quality Librarian University of Derby _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _____________________________________________________________ Click to learn about options trading and get the latest information. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2121/fc/Ioyw6i3m5biSnFOGJB5PIo4qNcO0P0DotYHDPQY3vuXiwogLeUgdFm/?count=1234567890 _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
