Best sites/diaries/etc for less-common regions/eras?

[gem]

We're all familiar with the great resources available if you're doing Elizabethan, Tudor, Florentine, or Venetian... and there are some great German/Saxon and Flemish diaries out there... does anyone have links to fabulous sites that feature costume from less-commonly discussed regions and eras?  Like Spanish or Portuguese, Scandinavian, or other Italian city-states (Milan, etc)?

[mollymishap]

Well, I started to collect these in my dressdiaries.com website but as you can see, I only have a few links (due mostly to my own neglect, I have to admit) but what I have is at your disposal. 

If you (or anyone else) find any others, I can always add them on.

[operafantomet]

FRU ALEYDIS (AKA Eva Andersson):
http://web.comhem.se/~u31138198/costumegallery.html - especially these:

http://web.comhem.se/~u41200125/Uvdal31.html
http://web.comhem.se/~u41200125/Periwinkleherjolfsnes.html

She also has various Flemish, French and various continental stuff, and does wonderful research.


Then there is MYRAs German (1470-1520) garbs:
http://myra.hem.nu/costume/

Picture perfect garbs, both for females and males. Click on the menu to the left to see her work and research.


And if you're not familiar with MICHAELA DE BRUCEs work, shame on you! 
http://costumes.glittersweet.com/

Another who's combining the skills of good research and wonderful seamwork. She's done several rare Flemish, Dutch and German styles, as well as fantasy stuff, Phantom of the Opera costumes and late Spanish dresses.


I'm sure there are lots of people I've forgotten to mention.... I have a nice list of links on my Mac, but it's being repaired at the moment so I don't have any of these links available. Will add more as/when I remember them.

[gem]

FRU ALEYDIS (AKA Eva Andersson):

Ack!!  I totally read her blog; I had NO IDEA *she* was the Eva you shared the link to a few weeks ago!!  This *is* a small world, isn't it?!

And I know Michaela DeBruce's work, as well, but I think Myra is new to me.

Molly--I had seen that Saya Espanola link before, but could not remember what it was.  Huzzah!

[sealion]

there might be something you haven't seen yet here:
http://www.modehistorique.com/links.html

[operafantomet]

I know they mostly make Victorian stuff and Italian Renaissance garbs... But what they make is so incredibly beautiful! Check it out:

http://www.dazeoflaur.com/

[operafantomet]

The following content is neither a link not a blog... But I still thought I should share:

I was recently recommended a book about Spanish and Portuguese clothes in the Renaissance, and I finally got to browse through the book today. It's an excellent, excellent book! Nice to see a less-common era being focused on, and the authour is also good at comparing with Italian (especially Milan + Mantua through the d'Este sisters) and Austrian fashion (as Spain and Austria once was united, and hence the fashion reflected this).

I haven't read the book in full yet, but the stuff I've read had been both intriguing and useful. Half of the book is about male fashion, the other half about female fashion, and there's some nice illustrations and glossary included.

The title of the book is "Hispanic Costume 1480-1530", and it's written by Ruth Matilda Anderson (1979). I think Amazon carries a re-print of it.