From: Zuzana Kraemerova
To: h-costume
Sent: Sun, Aug 9, 2009 10:38 am
Subject: [h-cost] early 17th century stays and bodice
Hi, I am going to do an early 17th century woman's middle class dress,
location:
Bohemia (today's Czech Republic, east of Germany if someone doesn'
Zuzana,
If you want a pattern for the shorter-waisted stays of the first half of the
17th century, try http://www.12eyes.co.uk/stays/stays.htm .
Having a minimal figure, I find a boned bodice adequate for middle-class
attire. If you want to wear separate stays, I think you would still need ligh
I'd find a pattern for stays that approximate the shape of the
woman's bodice, and go from there.
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It is common for bodices to have boned linings or for bodices to be mounted
onto boned linings that are not cut exactly the same, but of course similarly
cut.
> Hi, I am going to do an early 17th century woman's middle class dress,
> location: Bohemia (today's Czech Republic, east of Germany if someone
> doesn't know), time: 1618-1648. I want it to look like this:
>
>
> http://link.library.utoronto.ca/hollar/digobject.cfm?Idno=Hollar_k_1716&query=Hollar_
We are used to certain "rules" in dress, but sometimes ethnic
(anything not English) will break those rules. The image you showed
looks like a jacket. There were stays with detachable sleeves that
are meant to be an outer garment, up to the middle of the 18thC. For
17thC, there are b
Hi, I am going to do an early 17th century woman's middle class dress,
location: Bohemia (today's Czech Republic, east of Germany if someone doesn't
know), time: 1618-1648. I want it to look like this:
http://link.library.utoronto.ca/hollar/digobject.cfm?Idno=Hollar_k_1716&query=Hollar_k_1716&s
