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[Cilean]

I have take my 'usual'  Side Back  Lacing Toile/Mockup (something I mentioned in the Organization of Toiles on another thread) and I made another version for my Venetian. I took off 1" at the top of what would be my front and tapered it to 1/2" at the base or waist.  This gave me a nice Vee, and allowed me to close the bodice with hooks and eyes.  Here is a picture of the part in which I took off the inch.



I then wanted to make sure I had the bodice stand up and not buckle as I pulled it closed so I added 3 steel bones with channels. I also made this with a silk layer with canvas and then also added canvas to the fashion side as well. I don't know if you can see the silk but it is under the bodice fashion.




I based my information from Moda a la Fierenze and Janet Arnold's sketches



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And this one



Along with these Portraits


A Possible Back view




So now I have my Venetian bodice Toile marked and ready for me when and if I ever decide to make another, and I have of course!!! I am going to use some purple/green shot silk dupioni to make another verison with cut sleeves.


Cilean

[Kate XXXXXX]

That's a bit yummy!   

[DonaCatalina]

I have take my 'usual'  Side Back  Lacing Toile/Mockup (something I mentioned in the Organization of Toiles on another thread) and I made another version for my Venetian. I took off 1" at the top of what would be my front and tapered it to 1/2" at the base or waist.  This gave me a nice Vee, and allowed me to close the bodice with hooks and eyes.  Here is a picture of the part in which I took off the inch.



I then wanted to make sure I had the bodice stand up and not buckle as I pulled it closed so I added 3 steel bones with channels. I also made this with a silk layer with canvas and then also added canvas to the fashion side as well. I don't know if you can see the silk but it is under the bodice fashion.




I based my information from Moda a la Fierenze and Janet Arnold's sketches



[imghttp://www.festiveattyre.com/research/diary/images/ele1.jpg[/img]http://


And this one



Along with these Portraits


A Possible Back view




So now I have my Venetian bodice Toile marked and ready for me when and if I ever decide to make another, and I have of course!!! I am going to use some purple/green shot silk dupioni to make another verison with cut sleeves.


Cilean

One thing to remember: The dresses commissioned by Leonor Alvarez De Toledo were influenced by Spanish Imperial Court Fashion. - They are not solely Florentine in style.

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

That Damask is nthe same one i used for Lady deLaney's Elizabethan gown ensemble this year. I satill have a lot left.

[Cilean]

Quoted from DonaCatalina

One thing to remember: The dresses commissioned by Leonor Alvarez De Toledo were influenced by Spanish Imperial Court Fashion. - They are not solely Florentine in style.



While true to an extant, many of the courts had Spanish Influence, I first looked a Venetian portraits as I said and then used what I thought would make the proper silhouette or as far as I could tell. Then went to both Moda and Janet and then worked with my own toiles.  So I think I got it pretty okay in the end!

I am heading down the the LA Fabric Mart specifically to pick up more of this fabric. I have been in love with it for more than 2 years, and I want to pick up also the coordinating material as well since it is on sale down at Home Fabrics.

Cilean

[operafantomet]

One thing to remember: The dresses commissioned by Leonor Alvarez De Toledo were influenced by Spanish Imperial Court Fashion. - They are not solely Florentine in style.

Well, yes and no...

Eleonora di Toledo did develope the Florentine fashion with her continental style. She sported a stricter style in terms of stiffer bodices and often an overcoat (zimarra). But the general look was far from Spanish. The book "Moda a Firenze" is dedicated to this theme, how Eleonora influenced the more soft Tuscan style (hence the undertitle "e la sua influenza"), but how she still kept the basics of Tuscan fashion. Her tailor, Master Agostino, might be a key person in this, blending the duchess' wishes with the dominating style of the area.

Quote from the publishers site about the book:

Roberta Orsi Landini discusses Eleonora's garments which were made from costly and elegant Florentine fabrics and nearly always conformed to Tuscan styling
( http://www.mauropagliai.it/asp/so.asp?id=19093 )

She made a change in the Florentine fashion by importing a more continental look. These changes would probably have come anyway, but in Florence the fashion seems to have developed slower ever since the modesty sported by the monk Savonarola. With Eleonora it wasn't only fashionable to dress in finer fabrics and adopt a "poshier" silhouette, it was almost patriotic. Eleonora and her husband Cosimo kickstarted the new Florentine silk production, and where Savonarola had banned such fabrics it was now just as important to wear them to support the Florentine economy. Eleonora was seen as particularly stylish by her contemporaries, and what she wore would have been what Florentine court ladies aimed for, which in turn made it what the general Florentine lady wanted to look like. She brought a stricter court style with her to the city state, but it was moreso in manners than in clothes (although it applied for both) - she didn't as much change the Florentine way of dressing as developing and supplementing it.

The big question might be: what IS Florentine style? If we remove any impulses a particular style or fashion might get from elsewhere, we're not left with much. Milan with its Iberic impulses in the late 15.th century - is it not typical Milanese JUST BECAUSE it was an Italian style with a certain Spanish flair? Venice with its impulses from the Ottoman empire and its ignorance of the counter-reformatic claims of modesty - was it not Venetian just because of this? I would say it's how these impulses are treated locally that makes a style typical.

[Cilean]

Thank you Opera! Yes I did gather most of that  from my
Moda and speaking to several ladies who make Venetians within the SCA. But looking a the portrature you can conject how to place the bodice, however I had to work within the perameters of Margo's Patterns so I was using what I know with the said patterns I had to use, in order to gain what look I wanted.  So that is how I came about my personal pattern.  If I was making this gown without using Margo's Patterns I would have draped my pattern and then worked from that basis.

Cilean

[gem]

Anea, thanks for that excellent post!!  I always learn so much from you!

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Here's Milord's new shirt!



(He usually won't be wearing his Life is Good t-shirt underneath it!  )

This is the Ginger 5.3 oz linen from Fabrics-store.com (part of the 20 yards I bought when they had their sale), and it's McCall 4059.  If I were to make it again, I'd probably add another 4" to the length--it's a little bit short, which makes it look sort of "smockish."

...And if I don't have to gather anything else for another few months, I'll be a happy sewist.

[Kate XXXXXX]

Oh, that looks really nice!

He looks a tad scared...  You didn't threaten him with the scissors, did you?   

[DragonWing]

Great looking shirt. Nice job.

[Genievea Brookstone]

Looks great gem!

[Adriana Rose]

Gawd when I made that shirt I had to take a break and make it think about what it did wrong and I made the one without the collar! But you always do great work!

Opera thank you for another lesson! you are full of great info!

[isabelladangelo]

My latest project.  The skirts are old but the jacket and the stays are pretty new.  I made the jacket (embroidered linen) from my own pattern back in May.  I made the stays the day before the picture was taken.  :-)  This was taken after wearing them for about three or four hours so, they held up well.  The skirts need to be redone a bit but that's all.

[Genievea Brookstone]

Love the jacket!  Looks lovely.

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

Great work on the shirt and jacket..Both are just super.

A new Cavalier Hat I started last night and finished this afternoon. Made from Lynn McMasters TITANIC hat pattern with a less wide brim. Made with extra heavy buckram, underlined with flannel, with a suede cloth as the main fabric. My other hat bit the dust.





Then, a client of mine needed something simple and elegant to wear to her daughter's wedding next week. There is not a lot out there for full figured women. So my client picked out two seperate patterns for a simple Gored skirt that flares a bit and a Top that dips slightly iin then front. She picked out the fanbrics. The Top is underlined in a  single knit. The skirt is a Champagnge colored poly crepe satin