1630s fashion

Angela Mombers on Instagram: “Next weekend October 5 and 6, you can visit the event 'Beauty & Fashion Through the Ages' at the Prehistorical Village in Eindhoven…”

Portrait of a richly dressed young lady, full-length, before a draped table

ca. Elizabeth Howard, 1st Countess of Peterborough (1603-71) by Sir Anthonis van Dyck (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University - Oxford, South East England, UK). From Rex Harris' photostream on flickr

I have always been very fond of the portraits of Sir Anthony van Dyck who lived 1599 to 1641. He was a Flemish painter, but also worked in Italy, not to mention England- he became a painter at the court of Charles I. He painting often show off the clothes very well and I love how his persons really do look like persons with their own individuality. He also paints children that look like children, even if they are dressed like adults. Queen Henrietta Maria. Love the orange on the silver…

Actually it was the second one I ever made, right after the red one. Dunno why I never mentioned it here. It's already served its purpose very well several times. Here I went from the original design (that I wasn't too content with) to the design that's closer to the actual look of 1630s dresses. I altered the pattern to this trusty one that closes with hooks and eyes below the bust and has the typical flaps round the high waist. Only here I hadn't discovered yet that actually the skirt…

Review of The Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion at the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, July 2013.