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A Noble Lady, Escorted by a Serving Man. This lady's costume was remade from the one in the photo below. It is made of burgundy and grey velveteen, accented with pearls. The man's costume is appropriate for an upper servant. It is charcoal grey courduroy, with white guimpe and brass buttons. |
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| This was my first serious attempt at an Elizabethan noblewoman's gown. The original gown had skirt bands and a stomacher of grey velvet, embellished with silver braid and pearls. The sleeves were slashed and held with pearls. Later, I decided the silver trim was distracting from the elegant sleeves and remade the gown into the one above. |
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| One of my favorite things about this costume was the way I constructed the slashed sleeves and the looped tabs on the waist and armholes. I cut the outer layers 1/4 inch smaller, so that the grey velveteen lining rolls to the outside and shows. |
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After I gained weight and the bodice didn't fit anymore, I added a laced panel to the front and covered it with the stomacher shown here.
| This costume is now 15 years old, and it's getting pretty tired, plus it no longer fits me at all. the sleeves and the skirt fabric are still good, though, so I'm planning yet another remake! (A very period practice, by the way.) I'm either going to make a high necked "doublet" bodice from the skirt fabric, to wear with the sleeves and a grey velveteen skirt, or I may use the skirt fabric to make a forepart with pearling matching the sleeves, to wear with a different overdress. | |
