Fashion is My Muse
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17th century fashion
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17th century fashion
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Book Review: Seventeenth-Century Dress Patterns, Book One
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The cover of this book with the ghostly x-ray image of a slashed satin bodice from 1630 is but a hint of the extraordinary contents withi...
Monday, May 3, 2010
On a Pedestal at the Bata Shoe Museum (Part II)
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The shift from chopines to high heels that occurred in the 16th century is also an important part of the exhibition On a Pedestal at the Ba...
Monday, July 6, 2009
Lace-making in Bayeux, France
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During Louis XIV's reign, his finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert undertook to develop and support the luxury goods industry within ...
Thursday, April 23, 2009
The Establishment of a Lace Making Industry in France
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Dress c 1690 (Note the profusion of lace trimmings and the lace lappets). Lace is said to have originated in Venice in the 1300s. Over time...
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