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frualeydisI must share this absurd quote from Fashion and fiction. Dress in art and literature in Stuart England by Aileen Ribeiro:
"Anyone familiar with examining clothing from the early modern period is aware of the contrast between the quality of the fabrics and the poor tailoring and dressmaking in evidence. This is why many artists, especially in the early Stuart period, concentrate on decorative aspects of fashion rather than on the construction - and perhaps why such artists as van Dyck and Peter Lely felt the need to generalize and even to invent styles of dress. Clothing did not fit well, for garments were not made to size (vague estimates of 'smalnesse' and 'bignesse' of the constituent parts of the body, as recorded in letters and diaries by tailors and dressmakers seem unhelpful), and dress was of necessity pulled and pinned together by laces, pins and buttons until it assumed the shape of the wearer"
Please tell me that she was drunk when she wrote this. Or suffers from dementia.
"Anyone familiar with examining clothing from the early modern period is aware of the contrast between the quality of the fabrics and the poor tailoring and dressmaking in evidence. This is why many artists, especially in the early Stuart period, concentrate on decorative aspects of fashion rather than on the construction - and perhaps why such artists as van Dyck and Peter Lely felt the need to generalize and even to invent styles of dress. Clothing did not fit well, for garments were not made to size (vague estimates of 'smalnesse' and 'bignesse' of the constituent parts of the body, as recorded in letters and diaries by tailors and dressmakers seem unhelpful), and dress was of necessity pulled and pinned together by laces, pins and buttons until it assumed the shape of the wearer"
Please tell me that she was drunk when she wrote this. Or suffers from dementia.