A dress I want to make

[frualeydis]

Here is a late 15th century dress, from a polish manuscript, that I want to make. Isn't it lovely, with a gigantic "mushroom hat" as we lovingly call them among my friends.

PS. Hope this works, I haven't solved the general web site problem yet, but I'm trying to work around it instead.

Comments

[serenalyons.livejournal.com]

I love it! You definitely need to do it. AND With that high belt it will cover up/hide the post-baby-mommy-belly. :)

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

That belly I've had for years. That's why 16th c appeals to me, I don't need a bumroll I have one naturally :)

Eva

Pretty!

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Ohh, pretty! I like the hat, but then I'm such a sucker for big mushroomy hats.

Re: Pretty!

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Who isn't? I'm really crazy about headdresses, usually it's the headdress that makes me interested in the first place. At least for later perioods. When I was in the process of choosing which folk costume to make and didn't know there was one from where I come from (roughly) I considered using "silliest hat" as the main criteria.

Eva

[pinque.livejournal.com]

Got a chance to come back and comment, so I may be comment spamming right now;)

I love love love this style.

Very Master of the House Book:) I wonder if it's the same basic structure as the big hats in German art of the late 15thC... they seem to be a rectangle of fabric draped over a form... at least going by a few statues and paintings. Of course a rectangle is only so helpful in describing a shape that could be 20feet long but only one high, or nearly square;)