If you could make garb to match a portrait........

[Baron Dacre]

well, it's not a portrait... not even sure how authentic it would be... but it looks cool

I'm pretty sure that RPFS's costume trailer has a copy of this one. Our Shakespeare at the time wore it one season right after the movie came out....

Yep, House wore our copy on last night's episode....

[PrincessSara]

Yep, House wore our copy on last night's episode....

I knew it was that outfit! 

[operafantomet]

Wouldn't this trim be perfect?

Trim: http://cgi.ebay.com/Our-Finest-Hand-Beaded-Trim-Renaissance-Style_W0QQitemZ400072375132QQcategoryZ86820QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m8QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DMW%26its%3DC%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D20%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D9014392537228306766#ht_3867wt_894

Portrait: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/firenze2/bronzino1551mariadm.jpg

One would only need to swap the red rhinestone with a pearl. One would also need to be rich, though...

[Genievea Brookstone]

Oh that trim is gorgeous and a small fortune!

[Ludovi]

It is definitely not renaissance in style, but if I could make anything from a portrait, it would be this lovely little Manet woman... I want her outfit so badly. I've actually been trying to figure out how to draft it up.

[operafantomet]

http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jacklee/Birmingham/images_other/Art-Manet-BarFoliesBergere.jpg

It is definitely not renaissance in style, but if I could make anything from a portrait, it would be this lovely little Manet woman... I want her outfit so badly. I've actually been trying to figure out how to draft it up.

Maybe you could tweak this lovely Truly Victorian pattern a bit for the bodice? It's pretty similar:
http://trulyvictorian.com/catalog/410.html

[William of Armagh]

Greetings, ....great forum topic !.......I am halfway done with the Romeo costume from the Dicksee painting,  now working on the small brocade doublet.

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

Wouldn't this trim be perfect?

Trim: http://cgi.ebay.com/Our-Finest-Hand-Beaded-Trim-Renaissance-Style_W0QQitemZ400072375132QQcategoryZ86820QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m8QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DMW%26its%3DC%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D20%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D9014392537228306766#ht_3867wt_894

Portrait: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/renaissanceportraits/firenze2/bronzino1551mariadm.jpg

One would only need to swap the red rhinestone with a pearl. One would also need to be rich, though...

The trim is absolutely GORGEOUS!!! I have Heritage Trading as one of my saved ebay sellers. But unfortunately, I would need more than  a yard. The hand beaded trims would work perfect for Tudor gowns.

[DonaCatalina]

Greetings, ....great forum topic !.......I am halfway done with the Romeo costume from the Dicksee painting,  now working on the small brocade doublet.

Looks interesting- pics anytime soon?

[gem]

I just stumbled across this wonderful Melchior Lorch woodcut from 1569, and I'm completely enchanted by her:



Gorgeous German costume... and more sleeve fabulousness!

[PrincessSara]

Oooh, I love those sleeves gem!

[CenturiesSewing]

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I just came across this and am horribly in love with it.

[DonaCatalina]

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I just came across this and am horribly in love with it.

Is that a cameo on the side of her hood?

[Syrilla]

Isn't that crazy!

[operafantomet]

*bump*

http://centuries-sewing.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/English_Lady_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger.jpg

I just came across this and am horribly in love with it.

Is that a cameo on the side of her hood?

Definitely a cameo. Amusing! I wonder if Tudor ladies had to bow to sumptuary laws, like Tuscan and Venetian ladies? There they had rules about how much jewelry a woman was allowed to wear around her neck. So they put it on their heads and shoulders instead... *giggles*. But soon enough there were laws limiting this use as well. However, when reading about these laws, I found it interesting that a lot of pendants was made both with a loop for necklace, and a pin for pinning it on clothes. That might be the case with Holbein's lady as well (though it is of course only speculations).

Nonetheless a gorgeous portrait, so wonderfully understated.