{"id":960,"date":"2009-09-07T06:35:57","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T06:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trystancraft.com\/costume\/?p=960"},"modified":"2023-09-25T15:59:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T22:59:34","slug":"duh-it-wasnt-meant-to-be-1580s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/2009\/09\/07\/duh-it-wasnt-meant-to-be-1580s\/","title":{"rendered":"Duh! it wasn&#8217;t meant to be 1580s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_962\" style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/1610vamini.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-962\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-962 size-full\" title=\"1610vamini\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/1610vamini.jpg?resize=253%2C356&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"unknown woman, 1605-1625 (image source: V&amp;amp;A Museum)\" width=\"253\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/1610vamini.jpg?w=253&amp;ssl=1 253w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/1610vamini.jpg?resize=213%2C300&amp;ssl=1 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">unknown woman, 1605-1625 (image source: V&amp;A Museum)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This doublet that&#8217;s been giving me such problems isn&#8217;t what it seems to be. I&#8217;ve had images in my head, but I&#8217;ve been using a pattern (well, an idea of a pattern from PoF3, the 1580s doublet) that&#8217;s based in the wrong time period. Doh! The neckline and sleeves I&#8217;ve been fantasizing about are all about 30-40 years later than the base I started with.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a 1580s doublet. It&#8217;s meant to be a 1610s bodice\/jacket, rather like <a href=\"http:\/\/collections.vam.ac.uk\/objectid\/O16574\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this<\/a>, tho&#8217; you can&#8217;t see much of it and the V&amp;A debates what&#8217;s really going on in the portrait. However, let&#8217;s not trust what the website description says because that could well be incorrect, even by people who work at the V&amp;A. See: March 2009 trip and investigation into a certain &#8220;Mary Queen of Scots&#8221; portrait that was painted over in the 19th century &#8212; no info about that on the website, but the paintings expert I talked to gladly pulled the file and showed me the 1930s and 1970s X-rays to prove it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_963\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/1618elizvernon.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-963\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-963 size-medium\" title=\"1618elizvernon\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/1618elizvernon.jpg?resize=238%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Elizabeth Vernon, 1618 (image source: Wikimedia Commons)\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/1618elizvernon.jpg?resize=238%2C300&amp;ssl=1 238w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/1618elizvernon.jpg?w=318&amp;ssl=1 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Vernon, 1618 (image source: Wikimedia Commons)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Anyway. This miniature on the right has the neckline, sleeves, and center-front opening I wanted. Likewise, this <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Elizabeth_Vernon_Countess_of_Southampton_c_1618.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1618 portrait<\/a> (on the left) elaborates on the hanging sleeves I was imagining, plus the trim designs. This <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Portrait_of_a_woman.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1619 gown<\/a> has similar lines, just look past the slightly gawd-awful fabric choice (hi, I&#8217;m wearing a sofa!).<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, yeah, I&#8217;m pushing the envelope of the SCA period. But man, I love these shapes! Gotta have &#8217;em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This doublet that&#8217;s been giving me such problems isn&#8217;t what it seems to be. 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