Projects

Late Tudor-ish/Elizabethan clothing

Notes for discussion

There are other pages on Early Tudor and middling Tudor, which look into other styles I like.

1560s:

http://www.kimiko1.com/research-16th/FrenchHood/1560/BessHardwick.html

 

1570s:

http://www.kimiko1.com/research-16th/FrenchHood/1570/UnknownLadyQuesnel1570.html

http://www.kimiko1.com/research-16th/FrenchHood/1570/MaryDenton.html -- Too much surface detail for me, although I quite like the shapes.

http://www.kimiko1.com/research-16th/FrenchHood/1570/AliceBrandon-v2.html - I like the stark black headdress and the delicate (and impractical) ruff. Aren't her pale eyes freaky? Heart-shaped twisted hair. Not entirely sure what's going on with the garments, especially the white thing in the middle. Smock? Gown? Scarf?

http://web.archive.org/web/20070517100921/http://www.tudor-portraits.com/ElizabethKnollys.jpg

http://web.archive.org/web/20070517100921/http://www.tudor-portraits.com/ElizabethBrydges.jpg

http://web.archive.org/web/20070517100921/http://www.tudor-portraits.com/BessHardwick.jpg - The garments are relatively restrained -- what I think Alison Lurie calls 'Spanish black' with the plain black and white ruff&cuff contrasts. The pearls are an excessive luxury, and doesn't this show them off well? Note the buttons down the front of the doublet-style bodice.

Notes:

I'm seeing a fair few sets of brown or buff wrist-length leather gloves,

Watch points:

 

17 November 2006