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

[PrincessSara]

I am loving those sheer sleeves.  They would be so nice in hot weather.  Adding that one to the list of gowns to make!

[Love Good Wood]

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

[Bugsy]

Mine would be The Accolade, for sure.  I read somewhere that it would pretty much be impossible to make it exactly like the dress in the painting though.

[DragonWing]

Doublet,

I really like that Doublet. I am a leather kind of person and it really is cool looking. 

[DonaCatalina]

Mine would be The Accolade, for sure.  I read somewhere that it would pretty much be impossible to make it exactly like the dress in the painting though.

Oh the dress could be made. Lady Amalia does them all the time. But it would only look like this on someone who is nearly anorexic.

[Artemisia]

http://www.frick.org/assets/PDFs/Press_2008/antea.extended.pdf
Not the greatest gown but something about it makes me want it. Maybe it's the apron.

[Athena]

My next Renaissance project?



Raphael's painting of "Lady with a Unicorn" (Previously "St. Catherine of Alexandria", until restored in 1936). The fabrics are so vibrant and tactile, and I love the simplicity in shape, cut and details. Plus, moss green and wine red? *swooooon*

I have been pouring over that image for two weeks! I have a Museum Replicas gown I scored on Ebay a few years ago that I want to make sleeves for, just like the ones in that painting. I love the necklace just as much as the gown!!!

[operafantomet]

I've (basically) finished this dress now. It can be seen here:



To my big surprise, the museum where the portrait is today (Villa Borghese in Rome) has started making replicas of the jewellery for commercial sale. I really wanted to buy it, but it was a tad expensive. Plus, it was smaller than the portrait one, so it wouldn't be perfect anyway. Many museums I visited (I've just spent a month in Italy) had such replica jewellery for sale. Seems like the hottest souvenir thing these days! ETA: photo:

[LadyElizabeth]

Excellent job operafantomet!!  You look so lovely in it as well, very much like the beautiful woman in the portrait, minus blonde hair that is!

[Capt Gabriela Fullpepper]

Very Beautiful Operafantomet

[PrincessSara]

I've just found a new one I really want to do.



Portrait of a Noblewoman of Bologna, Italy, by Lavinia Fontana ca. 1580.

[LadyElizabeth]

Can anyone say exactly how authentic that leather doublet outfit is from Shakespeare in love because that is one of the hottest outfit ever on a guy!!! 

[DonaCatalina]

[operafantomet]

Can anyone say exactly how authentic that leather doublet outfit is from Shakespeare in love because that is one of the hottest outfit ever on a guy!!! 

If you have the "Patterns of Fashion ca.1560-1620", there are various pics of extant garbs in the front, also some padded and slashed doublets that reminds of the one in question.

There's especially one at page 21 (item 126) that reminds a lot. Description reads: "Padded and embroidered leather doublet (...) with sleeves and a padded peascod belly. It fastens with lacing by the double row of buttons at the front and is closed below, opening at the back seams c. 1585-95. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York."

[redkimba]

I would like to copy this one, but in greens and tans:



Kimberly