Mode Historique (Sarah Lorraine Goodman, known in the SCA as Sarah Sarah Wydville, and on LJ as modehistorique) http://www.modehistorique.com/ -- Sarah's very highly knowledgeable. I like her a lot for reasons other than that, too! She has some really good articles on her website, and the pictures and dress diaries of her completed outfits are lovely, too.
Also check out the links list on Sarah's website. It's really, really thorough and a lot of the sites I'd link you to are on there. Like Elizabethan Mafia! That's a great site.
Festive Attyre. http://www.festiveattyre.com/ Jen does great 16th century stuff, though I don't always agree with her conclusions from an historical standpoint.
The Elizabethan Costuming Page. http://www.elizabethancostume.net/ She should just go there and dig through it. Many, many links. Many useful things. I'd actually point her away from the Corset Pattern Generator, though. It's not historically accurate! It will give her a silhouette that looks right, but the pattern shape is accurate and the boning pattern isn't either, from the extant corsets we have. The Smock Generator is right on, though!
The Elizabethan Compendium. http://www.elizabethan.org/compendium/home.html Information on everyday life in Elizabethan England. Not much info on dress, but it helps put it all in context.
Karen Larsdatter's Medieval Material Culture Linkspages. http://www.larsdatter.com/index.html Lots and lots of links to extant material culture. It's mostly medieval, but there is some Elizabethan stuff on there.
Honestly, though, the best thing she can do is look at pictures. Lots and lots of pictures. Portraits, woodcuts, illuminated manuscripts (though those are thin on the ground for Protestant England!). Over time she'll develop an eye for what looks right and what doesn't.
London Gentlewomen and a Countrywoman by Lucas de Heere, c. 1570: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/De_Heere_Gentlewomen_and_Countrywoman.jpg -- The three ladies to the left are the gentlewomen; the lady to the left is the countrywoman. I've seen her described as a fishwife, but I have no idea where the people who've said that are getting that. She's holding a chicken? It might be the chinclout -- that's the cloth over her mouth.
The other thing that helps track down images is to find out the names of artists for the time and place you want to recreate and Google those names. The big miniature artist in Elizabethan England is Nicholas Hilliard. Here's an article about Elizabeth art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/liza/hd_liza.htm
And look at museum collections! In person isn't always possible, but lots of places have online collections. Lots of portraits and extant items in museum collections -- both useful. [Kendra at Demode Couture has a listing of museums with online collections (http://demodecouture.com/extant-costumes/), as well as a no-longer-updated list of specific items, broken down by period, in the Real Women's Clothing directory(http://demodecouture.com/realvict/). That only starts with 1600, however; Elizabethan clothing is harder to find than Victorian! Still, there are portraits and other items in museums as well.]
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Some Advice: Part 2
Date: 2010-06-05 01:38 pm (UTC)Mode Historique (Sarah Lorraine Goodman, known in the SCA as Sarah Sarah Wydville, and on LJ as modehistorique) http://www.modehistorique.com/ -- Sarah's very highly knowledgeable. I like her a lot for reasons other than that, too! She has some really good articles on her website, and the pictures and dress diaries of her completed outfits are lovely, too.
Also check out the links list on Sarah's website. It's really, really thorough and a lot of the sites I'd link you to are on there. Like Elizabethan Mafia! That's a great site.
Festive Attyre. http://www.festiveattyre.com/ Jen does great 16th century stuff, though I don't always agree with her conclusions from an historical standpoint.
The Elizabethan Costuming Page. http://www.elizabethancostume.net/ She should just go there and dig through it. Many, many links. Many useful things. I'd actually point her away from the Corset Pattern Generator, though. It's not historically accurate! It will give her a silhouette that looks right, but the pattern shape is accurate and the boning pattern isn't either, from the extant corsets we have. The Smock Generator is right on, though!
The Elizabethan Compendium. http://www.elizabethan.org/compendium/home.html Information on everyday life in Elizabethan England. Not much info on dress, but it helps put it all in context.
Karen Larsdatter's Medieval Material Culture Linkspages. http://www.larsdatter.com/index.html Lots and lots of links to extant material culture. It's mostly medieval, but there is some Elizabethan stuff on there.
Honestly, though, the best thing she can do is look at pictures. Lots and lots of pictures. Portraits, woodcuts, illuminated manuscripts (though those are thin on the ground for Protestant England!). Over time she'll develop an eye for what looks right and what doesn't.
Places to look at pictures:
Wikimedia, Elizabethan Clothing: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Elizabethan_clothing -- Look at the subcategories, too. She's going to have to use some discretion, because there are some not primary sources in there. Like this? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Purpledoublet.jpg Renfaire actors. Should not be used as a primary source!
If she's interested in 16th-century middle class English costume, then these two pictures specifically will be of interest to her.
The Fete at Bermondsey by Joris Hoefnagel, 1569: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joris_Hoefnagel_Fete_at_Bermondsey_c_1569.png
London Gentlewomen and a Countrywoman by Lucas de Heere, c. 1570: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/De_Heere_Gentlewomen_and_Countrywoman.jpg -- The three ladies to the left are the gentlewomen; the lady to the left is the countrywoman. I've seen her described as a fishwife, but I have no idea where the people who've said that are getting that. She's holding a chicken? It might be the chinclout -- that's the cloth over her mouth.
Tudor & Elizabethan Portraits. http://www.elizabethan-portraits.com/
The other thing that helps track down images is to find out the names of artists for the time and place you want to recreate and Google those names. The big miniature artist in Elizabethan England is Nicholas Hilliard. Here's an article about Elizabeth art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/liza/hd_liza.htm
And look at museum collections! In person isn't always possible, but lots of places have online collections. Lots of portraits and extant items in museum collections -- both useful.
[Kendra at Demode Couture has a listing of museums with online collections (http://demodecouture.com/extant-costumes/), as well as a no-longer-updated list of specific items, broken down by period, in the Real Women's Clothing directory(http://demodecouture.com/realvict/). That only starts with 1600, however; Elizabethan clothing is harder to find than Victorian! Still, there are portraits and other items in museums as well.]