About 20 years ago a friend who is a historical artist, borrowed several of my period gowns and had his gorgeous wife, my friend, pose in them in bodice ripper poses. His goal was to start doing historically accurate bodice ripper covers. I don't know if anything came of it. I should ask his wife.
Katy On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Sharon Collier <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm curious--does anyone know the answer to this question? Do the artists > who draw the covers of romance novels just come up with a costume out of > their head, or do they pose the models in a costume from a costume warehouse > or something? Some novels' covers look almost like photos; the costumes are > horrible, but very detailed. > Sharon C. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Patricia Dunham > Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 6:13 PM > To: Historical Costume > Subject: [h-cost] costume on book covers, argh > > Just ran across, by accident, 2 new CECELIA HOLLAND's -- hooray. THEN I > looked them up online and the covers -- argh! Obviously art-directed at the > bodice ripper set! > > The King's Witch is a Richard II period piece with a not-very-good Ren-faire > wench in green, @ > http://www.amazon.com/Kings-Witch-Cecelia-Holland/dp/0425241300/ref=ntt_at_e > p_dpt_2. > > And The Secret Eleanor [of Acquitaine], which cover is better but not > anywhere near right, @ > http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Eleanor-Cecelia-Holland/dp/0425234509. > > Recent re-issue of Great Maria is even afflicted with this... although the > cover looks like a renaissance angel, THAT is not appropriate for Maria! > http://www.amazon.com/Great-Maria-Cecelia-Holland/dp/B005CDUUD2/ref=ntt_at_e > p_dpt_3 > > The original Great Maria cover, > http://www.amazon.com/Great-Maria-Cecelia-Holland/dp/0394485092/ref=ntt_at_e > p_dpt_5 I now know isn't period for the story either, but at least looks > period to SOME time! > > Funny how the original covers from the central-male-character, 1960-70-80 & > 2000s titles are all very reasonable. > > chimene (a huge CH fan, for decades!!!) > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Katy Bishop, Vintage Victorian [email protected] www.VintageVictorian.com Custom reproduction gowns of the Victorian Era. Publisher of the Vintage Dress Series books. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
