17th century 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…

The Baroque period came into existence in the 16th century and lasted for about 150 years.Over its course in time, it completely changed the way people looked at fashion. Being a great source of in…

Written instructions are to be used in conjunction with our videos The stays and bodice were taken from Patterns of Fashion 5 by Janet Arnold ​ Materials: Stays Approximately 25 meters of...

This is a dress from 1660. It looks like the silver cloth dress from the Costume Museum at Bath ...

Beautiful baroque style dresses that were popular at the courts of Louis XIV and Charles II. (Via katybirdy95) To quote : Women’s clo...

I realized I never quite got around to posting about the 1670s gown I made earlier this year. It's mostly based on the satin bodice in Seventeenth Century Women's Dress Patterns. The instructions and patterns offer so much detail there wasn't much else to research in terms of construction. This was for a film shoot at Bacon's Castle, and it didn't seem like the lady of the house would need something quite so elaborately trimmed. I also needed something slightly later in date than the extant…