Extreme Costumer Laura Mellin has a wonderful ensemble on her site, of a blue linen PoB with tie-on sleeves. See it here. (http://www.extremecostuming.com/gallery/elizabethaniii.html) I love this look, but this is the only place I've seen it (that I can recall). Does anyone (Isabella? ;)) have other examples, maybe in period artwork? I gather this is quite late in our period (early 1600s) from the fact that she's worn it as an interpreter at Jamestown.
I have some leftover pink damask linen from my corset, and I'm toying with the idea of making some sleeves with it, but before I launch myself into this project, I'd like to do a little more research.
Sightings?
Gramercy!!
Preview from the upcoming Seventeenth-century Women's Dress Patterns: Book Two: http://issuu.com/vandapublishing/docs/17thcenturydresspatterns (http://issuu.com/vandapublishing/docs/17thcenturydresspatterns) close up pictures and pattern! The pink silk stays with sleeves are listed as 1630s.
Might want to hit up http://www.elizabethancostume.net/qewu.html (http://www.elizabethancostume.net/qewu.html) Queen Eliz. Wardrobe uploaded. I don't recall any pairs of bodies with sleeves that were not included with a gown of some sort but the list is huge.
Drea Leed has a few pictures up on her site. (http://www.elizabethancostume.net/corsets/history.html)
One of my favorite go to pictures for bodices in period
is the Fete at Bermondsey (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joris_Hoefnagel_Fete_at_Bermondsey_c_1569.png) from 1569. You'll see a LOT of different outfits in that painting of a lot of different social classes. It's fabulous. However, I don't recall seeing sleeves on any of the bodice/skirt combos.
(http://www.freewebs.com/isabelladangelo/interi8.jpg)
This one is a bit confusing. It's by Paris Bordone & entitled 'Cleopatra'. It looks like it's a bodice over a green dress, rather than a bodice/skirt combo but the bodice/jacket has sleeves.
German style bodice, skirt, and sleeves (http://www.dhm.de/ausstellungen/kurzweil/okt2.htm)
The lady sitting down at the picnic has sleeves attached to her bodice (http://www.wga.hu/art/b/bruegel/jan_e/1/g_market.jpg) This is from 1603, I believe.
In most of the cases I've seen, the sleeves match the color of the skirt - maybe off a shade or two but the same "color". The sleeves might be faded or a darker shade in comparison to the skirt. This also all seems to be later - very late 16th going into the 17th C. I know in the 17th c, there are some deliciously gorgeous examples of sleeves being the same color as the bodice - and the same material. The fabulous pink stays from the mid 17th C come to mind.
Here is an example of a 17th Century Stays with sleeves..
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0yqt8sEnq1qidnqfo1_500.jpg)
(http://media.vam.ac.uk/media/thira/collection_images/2006AM/2006AM8284_jpg_l.jpg)
(http://media.vam.ac.uk/media/thira/collection_images/2010EE/2010EE8023_jpg_l.jpg)
(http://media.vam.ac.uk/media/thira/collection_images/2006BB/2006BB8268_jpg_l.jpg)
http://oldrags.tumblr.com/post/19468225346/stays-and-busk-1660s-england-the-v-a-museum (http://oldrags.tumblr.com/post/19468225346/stays-and-busk-1660s-england-the-v-a-museum)
I am by no means an expert on this topic, but as soon as I saw the topic name I was gonna spam pics of the pink stays... figures I'd be beaten to the punch! They're possibly the most beautiful extant piece of garb I've ever seen, and I absolutely NEED -- yes, NEED (I'm sure everyone on this board needs no convincing of this fact, though, haha) -- to make a reproduction.
Also, I'm pretty sure I have several more photos of those stays, different angles and such, as well as (I think) a drawn diagram. If anyone's interested, I'd be happy to dig them up and post them! <3
Just imagine for a moment that this was sll done by hand! The hours it took, not to mention the percision in the stiching.
Totally amazing.
I lover her stuff! (Laura Mellin). She is where I got the idea for how I decorated Michael's green doublet with the double rows of gold ribbon! Very inspirational, she is!