Dress of Gentlewomen in Finland in the 18th century

[frualeydis]

is the name of a book I just got from the library. (The finnish title is Säätyläisnaisten pukeutuminen suomessa 1700-luvulla and it's by Riitta Pylkkänen) It has lovely pictures of both art and preserved clothing as well as some pattern drawings from the latter. Unfortunately it is in finnish, a language I don't read. There's a 5 page english summary, but since the whole book is 500 pages I am sure I'm missing very much.

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[isiswardrobe.livejournal.com]

Jag har lånat en avskrift av en bok av samma författare: Barockmodet i Finland, 1620-1720. Kan det vara samma? Jag har inga bilder, bara svensk text med hänvisningar till det finska originalet.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Jag tror inte det, den täcker hela 1700-talet och början på 1800-talet. Men hon har skrivit en annan bok med ungefär den titeln, det är säkert den.

/Eva

[ginger-dragon.livejournal.com]

Åh, den skulle jag bra gärna vilja läsa! Om jag bara kunde finska.

[annalindqvist.livejournal.com]

Jag får leta på biblioteket här hemma så får min sambo översätta - frågan är väl bara hur eftersom han inte är ett dugg intresserad av ämnet? :-)

/Anna

[brambleberry.livejournal.com]

Eva,

Do you have any recommendations for a book with a section on costume of gentlemen in the sixteenth century in Finland? I have a friend who wants sixteenth-century Finnish dress, and I'm drawing a blank on books written in English with any such information.

-Christina

[brambleberry.livejournal.com]

Well, he's a guy, so I guess clothes would have been a better word than dress. ;>

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I have no idea. If he portrays nobility he was actually swedish, since Finland was a part of Sweden and the nobilty was of swedish origin, speaking swedish. This means that the Sture suits (they are in Janet Arnold's Patterns of Fashion) would be a good starting point. In general dress both in the western and eastern parts of the realm, which is what Sweden and Finland often were called, were very influenced by german fashion.

/Eva

Re: Translation help

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the offer, I may take you up on it. I haven't had teh time to really look at it yet. It is rather funny that, since this is about the upper classes, all the direct quotes from period sources are in swedish and the rest in finnish.

/Eva