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Portrait of Maria di Cosimo 1555-57 by Alessandro Allori.
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The problem is, when in a hurry, is that things get
forgotten. I had forgotten to line the kirtle body with
canvas.
So this brings me back to my original plan (which was
abandoned due to lack of time) of doign a set of
'underbodies' similar to that of Eleanor Toledo found in
Janet Arnold's Patterns of Fashion. Right are her drawings
from the extant burial clothing of Eleanor. There are no
channels or stitch holes to suggest boning, as in
elizabethan corsets. A reed corset wouild also be expected
to leave holes where linen stitches would have been.
From this, one conclusion is hat this was just an added
layer of 'reinforcement'. This should negate the need for
'breast taping', with linen, for every event making it
easier to dress myself without help. (It is hard to do
breast taping by yourself, when you have back and shoulder
problems).
This extant 'underbodies' have small stitch marks on the
lower edge which may indicate there was a skirt attatched. I
think (at some point) I may do this, rather than use a
separate skirt.
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