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Before the Automobile: 1660's dress

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…

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1659 Lady Catherine Dormer by John Michael Wright

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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Spencer Alley: European Portraits from the 1650s

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…

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a painting of a woman with a dog in her lap and wearing a red dress

Henrietta Maria of France, Queen of England (1609-1669) by Michael Dahl (on auction by Koller Auctions) | Grand Ladies The scoop neckline suggests this comes from the 1650s. Her over-sleeves are clipped on to her bodice with clasps.

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an oil painting of a woman in black dress with a feathered hat on her head

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.

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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.

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Jeanne Parmentier   The baroque garment was made after the Jeanne Parmentier‘s (1656) or Abraham del Court and Maria de Kaersgieter’s portraits (1654) painted by Bartholomeus van der Helst. The pattern for bodice is based on silk satin piece from V&A collection (1660-70). http://www.kostym.cz/Anglicky/8_Krejcovstvi/01_Catany/VIII_01_99A.htm

Jeanne Parmentier The baroque garment was made after the Jeanne Parmentier‘s (1656) or Abraham del Court and Maria de Kaersgieter’s portraits (1654) painted by Bartholomeus van der Helst. The pattern for bodice is based on silk satin piece from V&A collection (1660-70). http://www.kostym.cz/Anglicky/8_Krejcovstvi/01_Catany/VIII_01_99A.htm

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Dress: ca. mid 17th | by Traditional Clothing of our World

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/

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For Maria. Finding mid-17th century gowns is hard. It seems we skip from Elizabethan to Versailles, with little common dress. Museum of Costume, Bath 1660's

Making a mid 17th century dress is interesting – the bodice is fully boned, so it’s basically a corset with sleeves. I guess it saves making a corset to go under the outfit 😀 Anyway, this means I had to make an inner boning layer, and figure out a boning pattern to present the right 17th century torso silhouette. For my inner boning layers, I used a fairly rough unbleached linen that I found 4 metres of at an op shop for $5. This really has been a fortunate dress! For boning, I’m using 3/8″…

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