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Before the Automobile: 1660's dress 1650s Fashion, 17th Century Dress, Princess Line Dress, 17th Century Clothing, College Dress, 17th Century Fashion, Victorian Gown, 19th Century Clothing, Historical Clothes

I have always had a fondness for Dutch paintings from the 1650's and the 1660's. My favorite is Ter Borch, but Gabriël Metsu has painted my favorite dress and that became the dress my project was mainly based on. I also found the 1660's bodice pattern and construction notes on the book Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns: Book 2 extremely useful. The dress is completely hand sewn from duchess silk satin, linen canvas, mid weight linen and a finer white linen using linen and silk…

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17th Century Middling Outfit Puritan Fashion, 17th Century Dress, 17th Century Clothing, 17th Century Fashion, Historical Sewing, Good Pictures, Historical Dress, Century Dress, Century Clothing

I got to go "play" at Henricus yesterday for work. It was awesome! I'm so addicted to the early 17th century... I'll be doing a separate post about my pair of bodies and smock once I get good pictures taken. Those pieces, and the coif, were entirely hand sewn. The actual doublet and petticoat are not, because I made them at work, on work time, for eventual inclusion in our inventory. Thus they are a mix of machine sewing (where you can't see) and hand sewing (where you can, like all the…

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