Research for a 1520's gown, part 1

[isiswardrobe]

Busy as I am sewing my Victorian wardrobe, I still have plans for the future. And as I was recently reminded of how practical a blog is to keep track oofresearch, this post is posted now for future references

Comments

[virginiadear]

Dorotea, from the altarpiece at Nas, Vastergotland, do you mean, for the pinked versus ermine hem?

I admit I know nothing or at best next to nothing when it comes to Swedish or German clothing (especially of the 16th century!) except for a few terms in German, but what I believed I had understood was that the sumptuary laws were much harder to evade or elude in Germany and I am fairly sure they were very strictly observed in the Swiss cantons, compared to other countries, so wouldn't the lady need to be of a certain rank or social status in order to be able to wear either ermine or a pinked hem but particularly wouldn't ermine be restricted?

I wish I had good, solid recommendations to make for reading materials on this topic!

[isiswardrobe]

You managed to read the post with an error I didn't had time to correct yet. :) The text refers to a gown which didn't make it in the finished post, and I didn' notice until I had posted that some of the text remained.

This is the one I meant:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basel_Woman_Turned_to_the_Right,_Costume_Study_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger.jpg

[virginiadear]

Ohhh, now I see!

If I had to come down on one side or the other of the hem or decorative band question, I think I'd have to say, "Hem."

And now I can see the hem of the petticoat, too, and my gracious, it does indeed look like ermine! I'd love to know more about it.

This image is one I've seen before, and I may even have a copy of it in a hard-copy paper file, somewhere, but right now "somewhere" means in all likelihood a deep storage situation.
I wish we could see her footwear.

[isiswardrobe]

I want to say hem too. And though it's not the same period or place, I wonder if it may be similar to how apron was made in farming communities in Sweden in the 19th century. The deeper the hem, the more you showed off your wealth by using up more fabric than you actually needed.