The new book, "The Tudor Tailor" has a line drawing of almost exactly what
you want, on page 63. You would just have to make the hanging sleeves.
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I don't see any breeches on page 63.
I thought her dilemma was she cannot find a pictorial reference to a doublet
with long skirts worn with "breeches"....by which I think she means
Venetians.
That is precisely it - and they are breeches that we have. (My
husband used them for "any" period when required by the Royal
Shakespeare Company for whom he worked.) They have a button fly,
which I want to hide with the doublet.
There is a rendering of a man in a skirted doublet [one looks like a
jerkin] with paned hosen that come to just above the knee on pages
11, 15 and 19.
The paintings these details are from are
"The Fete at Bermondsey" by Joris Hoefnagel c1570 [page 11]
"The Embarkation at Dover" in the Royal Collection [page 15]
and
"The Field of the Cloth of Gold", also in the Royal Collection [Page 19]
The whole paintings [I think] are on the "Contents" page....but get your
magnifying glass out.
I have done this with all the paintings!! I have detailed blow up
pictures of the two Henry Vlll paintings, but they are really too early.
But that's the problem isn't it? Most renderings of a doublet with Venetians
are of the later short doublet with tassets.
Exactly.
And again, these men all appear to be servants of some kind holding arms or
something. But some are just dancing or socializing so you cannot
really tell.
Like I said - me consort with a servant? I understand it's a very
posh do we are invited to.
Ah well, someone somewhere must have worn them sometimes. Lack of
evidence is not lack of fact, and there were an *awful lot* of people
who were not painted.
Suzi
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