1650s fashion

I have always had a fondness for Dutch paintings from the 1650's and the 1660's. My favorite is Ter Borch, but Gabriël Metsu has painted my favorite dress and that became the dress my project was mainly based on. I also found the 1660's bodice pattern and construction notes on the book Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns: Book 2 extremely useful. The dress is completely hand sewn from duchess silk satin, linen canvas, mid weight linen and a finer white linen using linen and silk…

Lady Jane Dormer's bodice has a laced stomacher section while the rest of her dress has a typical scoop neckline and puffed sleeves in this 1659 Wright portrait.

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The Silver Tissue Dress—paired with a dress worn by Oscar-winning actress Audrey Hepburn during the film "Roman Holiday"—will appear at the Crown to Couture fashion exhibition at London's Kensington Palace between April and October 2023.

French 17th century

Peter Lely Portrait of a boy as a shepherd ca. 1658-60 oil on canvas Dulwich Picture Gallery, London Peter Lely Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Strickland née Pile 1659 oil on canvas Savannah College of Art and Design "A viable model for thinking about some aspects of art and culture is precisely as a market in attention itself, an exchange of attentions valuable to the other. We and the artist collude in a socially institutionalized assignation to barter our respective attentions. He values our…

1635 Emilia Papafava Borromeo by Tiberio Tinelli (Musei Civici di Padova - Padova, Veneto, Italy). From history-of-fashion.tumblr.com/image/665914503307886592 910X1753 @72 594kj.

Dame mit Perlschmuck by ? (auctioned by van Ham). From Wikimedia via pinterest.com/autumnarisal/1650s-portraits-englishwomen/late-1650s/.

Dress: ca. mid 17th century, Italian/Hungarian, cambric, broad lace, metal work; embroidery, presumably from the wardrobe of Orsolya Esterházy. www.pinterest.com/pin/157837161916444214/

"Portrait of Margaretha Tulp" -- 1665 -- Grovaert Flinck -- Dutch -- Oil on canvas -- Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister im Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, Germany.