Sharon at Collierfam.com wrote:
I made a "Mary Tudor" dress using the book and was pleasantly surprised. Nice french hood patterns.
I respectfully disagree with the French hood patterns in The Tudor Tailor. Neither the fronts nor the falls/veils match the portrait and effigy record.
There is no indication in 16th-century images of the attachment across the nape of the neck that The Tudor Tailor includes as part of the front of the hood (what TT calls the "brim"). This shape is good for modern theatrical purposes because it's stable in the absence of the anchoring hairstyle that would have been underneath historically.
If you look at the excellent images from the 16th century that are included in the book, you'll see that the fall in the back of the hood is a flat tube hanging from the top of the head and that the back of the head is covered closely by something shaped more like a caul. The patterns, however, show a fall shaped like a sleeve, which creates a different effect entirely.
Both "brim" and fall patterns are similar to the ones in Denise Dreher's _From the Neck Up_, an excellent theatrical millinery book from 1981.
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