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costume diary links

Dress Diaries

• 1488 Italian Garb — by Kiara. His and hers Florentine clothing.
• 1530 Tudor Gown — by Claire Kirkpatrick.
• 1560 French Gown — By Jessamyn.
• 16th Century Flemish Dress — by Eva Andersson.
• 16th Century Italian Courtesan Gown
• 16th Century Loose Kirtle — by Eva Andersson.
• 1770 Gentry Gown
• Bella's Dress Diaries — Bella Lucia da Verona's Italian renaissance dress diaires.
• Bronzino's Maria de Medici
• Civil War Day Dress — As of 08/2007, site is gone.
• Curious Frau — by Marion McNealy. Mostly German clothing: a 1525 gown from Augsburg, a hemd (chemise), a stutzrocke (farthingale), etc. Includes a kirtle made from Alcega and a gown from the "Tailors Book of Enns."
• Does This Make Me Look Fat? — by Alyxx. Diaries of renaissance thru victorian gowns she has made. Some beautiful stuff! (and the name makes me laugh!)
• To Dress a Queen — by Seamstrix. Diary of a gown she made for playing the Queen at the Stonghold Castle Fair.
• Elizabeth de Valois — By Michaela de Bruce. 16th century Spanish gown, recreation of a portriat by Sofia Anguissola.
• Festive Attyre Dress Diaries — by Jennifer Thompson. Diaries on 1480's Florentine gown, 1580's working class Italian gown, 1560's noblewoman's gown, and a 1515 Florentine gown.
• Gwynne's Guardaropa — Gwynne's Elizabethan gown diary.
• In Prayse of the Needle — Site by Jane Stockton has Elizabethan dress diaries. Also embroidery samples and documentation.
• Kat's dress diaries — Florentine gowns, man's embroidered doublet, cauls and coifs, stockings, couching, blackwork and more.
• Lia de Thornegge's Garb — Working class Tudor gown, a bliaut, a black partlet, cotehardie, kirtle, etc.
• Most Marvelous & Comely — Several dress diaries, including a 1490s Italian, a 1575 Spanish/Italian influenced gown, and a Victorian gown.
• Myra's Dress Diaries — A Flemish gown, blackwork embroidery, schaube, hemd, and more.
• Nuremburg Dress — by Heather. Based on a late 15th century Durer painting.
• Rebecca's Dress Diaries — Maria de Medici gown, Mary de Guise gown, Spanish gown, and more.
• Recreation of Beatrice d'Este's Gown c. 1496 — By Ginevra.
• Sarah's Dress Diaries — 1543 gown, Clouet gown, wool gown, gold brocade gown, green & maroon doublet gown, etc.
• The Sixteenth Century Stitchery or Sarra's Stitchery — As of 08/2007, 1st link is gone, and 2nd one only points to first.
  Includes a middle class dress
• Sempstress Dress Diaries — A Venetian courtesan, grey middle class gown, gold noble gown, and a red & black noble gown. Also, Teddy's "Elizabeth I or Bust" diary.
• Theresa Shobe's Dress Diaries — Elizabethan, Georgian, Victorian and more...

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