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

[amy]

Our own Syrilla's new Elizabeth I gown being worn this season at the TNRF has amazing sheer oversleeves with a gloriously beaded undersleeve.   I will find some pics and edit the post.  But feel free to search around for them ...   BRB!

Find pictures of this gown and you will see the amazing sleeves!

[Adriana Rose]

Oooh that's her new gown! wow she looks beyond fabulous!

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

I was oohhing and aahhing as well!!! Amazing ensemble!!

[Lady Amy of York]

Gorgeous and breathtaking gown, for  a lovely queen and lady.

[DonaCatalina]

I am always on the lookout for a new sleeve treatment in portraits.
This one looks promising.


As well as this one.... Though I wish I could find a larger version that shows the sleeve detail better.

[Lady Rosalind]

I am always on the lookout for a new sleeve treatment in portraits.
This one looks promising.


As well as this one.... Though I wish I could find a larger version that shows the sleeve detail better.

I think I may have that second image in a book at home. I'll take a look and see if I can find it, and I'll scan it Monday...

[gem]

Are we talking about the sleeves on the lady-in-waiting in the back--the orange ones that look like petals, with the green velvet undersleeves? They *are* pretty spectacular, and so unusual!

[Adriana Rose]

I like the petalish cap sleeves, I wonder how that could be done?

[gem]

I think they'd be pretty easy, really; just take a good sleeve pattern, crop it, and draft in the petal shape. But I'm guessing there's more detail there than we're seeing--trims or piping or something yummy. If you look at the *other* lady-in-waiting, the one in green on the left, she has similar sleeves, except that hers look more like extended tabs than a flower-shaped sleeve (they're not as long and seem to project more from the shoulder/strap). Either way, very fun!

Dona C, what's the origin of this painting? At a wild guess, maybe late 16th. C. Spanish?

[DonaCatalina]

Are we talking about the sleeves on the lady-in-waiting in the back--the orange ones that look like petals, with the green velvet undersleeves? They *are* pretty spectacular, and so unusual!

all three?
No actually its Italian Paolo Caliari aka Paolo Veronese.

[Adriana Rose]

I think they'd be pretty easy, really; just take a good sleeve pattern, crop it, and draft in the petal shape. But I'm guessing there's more detail there than we're seeing--trims or piping or something yummy. If you look at the *other* lady-in-waiting, the one in green on the left, she has similar sleeves, except that hers look more like extended tabs than a flower-shaped sleeve (they're not as long and seem to project more from the shoulder/strap). Either way, very fun!

Dona C, what's the origin of this painting? At a wild guess, maybe late 16th. C. Spanish?

Thank you thats what I was thinking, I may be brave and put them on the gown that I have in my head for next summer ( if it actually gets out of there its another story)

[operafantomet]

I just totally need a Florentine dress like this. I DIG the fit of the bodice and those spiraled sleeves:

[amy]

Oh yes, and is that partlett not scrumptious

[DonaCatalina]

Yes that partlet and those sleeves are fabulous.

[Magpie Flynn]

Ok, I've had this one planned for awhile, though the making of won't happen for a few years.



I swear I see this portrait everywhere when I'm not looking for it, but now that I'm looking for it I can't find it.  Can anyone tell me who the subject is? I like reading up on the people in the garb . Past me was extremely unhelpful by saving the picture simply as "WANTS".