1620s fashion women

1630 Jane Countess of Winchester by Gilbert Jackson (Lane Fine Art)

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By Angela Mombers: "My 1620s dress, after a drawing of Hendrick Avercamp, is aaaaalmost ready! The black silk arrived last Saturday so I could finally make the skirt. It's attached to the bodice with very tight cartridge pleats. Then the hemline is gathered and tucked in the waist of the petticoat. The petticoat is actually green, but you can't see it well on this photo. Now the only thing left is to starch the cuffs and hood, and then I am ready!"

View Portrait of Lady Harbord, full-length, in a black dress with lace collar and cuffs and holding a pocket watch, in an interior By British School, 17th Century; oil on canvas; 76 x 51¾ in. (193 x 131.4 cm.); . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

Fashion under the Reigns of Louis XI, Charles VIII, and Louis XII. 1461 to 1515. Costume history. Transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.

*** I'm not exactly sure what this garment is meant to be... A gown? A kirtle? The inspiration came from the Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608, a collection of images appropriated and later redrawn and coloured by Thomas Trevelyon. I fell in love with this image immediately. It appears to be a single front lacing layer worn over an exposed smock, paired with an apron and a linen partlet with attached or integral ruff. Now, it's never a good idea to take coloured drawings at face value and it's…

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A history of royal fashion, the Tudors. Henry VIII and Elizabeth I were considered the original power dressers!