> As mentioned in my earlier email I follow Alcega, waide waistline and
> all.

That's what I'm going to do too. It's just too tempting an idea to say
I've made the dress from an actual pattern of the time :-)

> I found the side seams of the skirt matched up nicely to the side
> back seams of the bodice which meant the fullness of the back of the
> skirt is arranged into a very narrow space.

This won't work for me, though. The front panels alone are wide enough
to go completely around my waist. I'll have to pleat at the sides as
well as the back.

> http://costumes.glittersweet.com/sca/valoisdiary.htm

Wow, cool! Loooong diary!

> While I have my doubts that this is Coello (the feel of the painting
> is very Netherlandish) and it is post-mortem, the figure with her back
> to us is Isabel de Valois

Doesn't feel Spanish at all, does it? I was thinking it looked
English. In any case, it looks Northern to me...

Thank you!

Audrey
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