#16th century dress

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a time lady

[wardrobeoftime]

My Lady Jane + Costumes

Jane Grey's white & golden wedding dress in Season 01, Episode 01 & 02.

[classic-art-favourites]

Isabella of Portugal by Titian, 1548.

[solcattus]

The bridal jewelry. Venetian women in the 16th century, 1872

By Cesare Dell'acqua

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୨୧￤ Edwardian novelty silver Vesta Case ഒ·°

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Portrait of a lady as Ceres by an artist of the French School of Fontainebleau, c. 1550–1599 

[irish-dress-history]

Irish dress history sources online:

A list of sources for Irish dress history research that free to access on the internet:

Primary and period sources:

Text Sources:

Corpus of Electronic Texts (CELT): a database of historical texts from or about Ireland. Most have both their original text and, where applicable, an English translation. Authors include: Francisco de Cuellar, Luke Gernon, John Dymmok, Thomas Gainsford, Fynes Moryson, Edmund Spenser, Laurent Vital, Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn

Images:

The Edwin Rae Collection: A collection of photographs of Irish carvings dating 1300-1600 taken by art historian Edwin Rae in the mid-20th c. Includes tomb effigies and other figural art.

National Library of Ireland: Has a nice collection of 18th-20th c. Irish art and photographs. Search their catalog or browse their flickr.

Irish Script on Screen: A collection of scans of medieval Irish manuscripts, including The Book of Ballymote.

The Book of Kells: Scans of the whole thing.

The Image of Irelande, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne by John Derricke published 1581. A piece of anti-Irish propaganda that should be used with caution. Illustrations. Complete text.

Secondary sources:

Irish History from Contemporary Sources (1509-1610) by Constantia Maxwell published 1923. Contains a nice collection of primary source quotes, but it sometimes modernizes the 16th c. English in ways that are detrimental to the accuracy, like changing 'cote' to 'coat'. The original text for many of them can be found on CELT, archive.org, or google books.

An Historical Essay on the Dress of the Ancient and Modern Irish By Joseph Cooper Walker published 1788. Makes admirable use of primary sources, but because of Walker's assumption that Irish dress didn't change for the entirety of the Middle Ages, it is significantly flawed in a lot of its conclusions. Mostly only useful now for historiography. I discussed the images in this book here.

Chapter 18: Dress and Personal Adornment from A Smaller Social History of Ancient Ireland by P. W. Joyce published 1906. Suffers from similar problems to An Historical Essay on the Dress of the Ancient and Modern Irish.

Consumption and Material Culture in Sixteenth-Century Ireland Susan Flavin's 2011 doctoral thesis. A valuable source on the kinds of materials that were available in 16th c Ireland.

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Antiquities in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy Volumes 1 and 2 by William Wilde, published 1863. Obviously outdated, and some of Wilde's conclusions are wrong, because archaeologists didn't know how to date things in the 19th century, but his descriptions of the individual artifacts are worthwhile. Frustratingly, this is still the best catalog available to the public for the National Museum of Ireland Archaeology. Idk why the NMI doesn't have an online catalog, a lot museums do nowadays.

Volume I: Articles of stone, earthen, vegetable and animal materials; and of copper and bronze

Volume 2: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Antiquities of Gold in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy

A Horsehair Woven Band from County Antrim, Ireland: Clues to the Past from a Later Bronze Age Masterwork by Elizabeth Wincott Heckett 1998

Jewellery, art and symbolism in Medieval Irish society by Mary Deevy in Art and Symbolism in Medieval Europe- Papers of the 'Medieval Europe Brugge 1997' Conference (page 77 of PDF)

Looking the part: dress and civic status and ethnicity in early-modern Ireland by Brid McGrath 2018

Irish Mantles, English Nationalism: Apparel and National Identity in Early Modern English and Irish Texts by John R Ziegler 2013

Dress and ornament in early medieval Ireland - exploring the evidence by Maureen Doyle 2014

Dress and accessories in the early Irish tale, ‘The Wooing of Becfhola’ by Niamh Whitfield 2006

A tenth century cloth from Bogstown Co. Meath by Elizabeth Wincott Heckett 2004

Tertiary Sources:

Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia edited by Sean Duffy published 2005

Re-Examining the Evidence: A Study of Medieval Irish Women's Dress from 750 to 900 CE by Alexandra McConnell

[english-history-trip]

The gowns designed by Walter Plunkett for Diane (1956), with Marisa Pavan as Catherine de Medici and Lana Turner as Diane de Poitiers, alongside the historical portraits he based them on.

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

October: Silver Redux

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex / Olivia de Havilland as Lady Penelope Gray

It's surprising how plain this dress (designed by Orry-Kelly) looks on its own! The ruff, the jewelry, the fan, and the lighting make it look so much more glamorous. Well, those things and the effect of being worn by Olivia de Havilland! It's only seen from the waist up in the film itself as far as I can tell, but fortunately, the black-and-white publicity shot has a full-length view of it, showing how the skirt expands with some structured underpinnings (not sure whether they constructed a farthingale or just used petticoats).

As a side note, just what is up with that whimsical little bow at the top of her head? It doesn't correspond to any period look that I know of, and it doesn't seem to serve any practical purpose:

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Survived

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Oil painting, ca. 1537, Italy.

Portraying Eleanor Gonzaga in a black dress.

Painted by Titian.

Uffizi Gallery.

[wardrobeoftime]

The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) + Costumes

Mary Boleyn's golden & yellow wedding dress.

// requested by @garnetbutterflysblog

[classic-art-favourites]

Sibylle of Cleves by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1526.

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