Page 9 shows something the author actually calls a pill box, and gives it as Venetian about 1500. We are all aware, right, that this book is not proper documentation, being nothing but re-drawings from unidentified sources?
Maggie Secara ~A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603 Available at your favorite online bookseller See our gallery at http://www.zazzle.com/popinjaypress On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Sharon Collier <[email protected]>wrote: > Wow, if you go to page 4, in the top right corner is a man wearing a hat > that is almost exactly what everyone has been discussing. (hat/caul with > rolled/padded brim, even with a slight point in front)Could women have > adopted a man's style? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of otsisto > Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 4:24 PM > To: Historical Costume > Subject: Re: [h-cost] Primary source for Elizabethan pillbox hats sought > > I had asked Lynn McMasters and she says that it is based off an Italian > portrait. > http://lynnmcmasters.com/LadyM.html > in color and a wee bit larger. > http://tinyurl.com/yt6hg9 > > > Now it could be something like this > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angelo_Bronzino_002.jpg > with a caul but it is hard to tell. > > "The Mode in Hats and headdresses might also be of help. Wilcox has a few > pillbox drawings from this period. Usually you can find a matching portrait > to her drawings if you look around. I have seem many 18C matches in my > Turban research. > You can see all her drawings from that book on line. > http://gallery.villagehatshop.com/gallery/chapter9 > > She does use different names for what is basically the same thing; Pillbox, > Calotte (cap) and velvet bonnet. Maybe that is what people are having > trouble with. Lynn" > > > De > > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
