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Before the Automobile: 1660's dress 1660s Dress, 1650s Fashion, Baroque Clothing, 1600 Fashion, 17th Century Dress, 1800s Dresses, 17th Century Clothing, 17th Century Fashion, 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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1670's gown - Diary of a Mantua Maker http://mantuadiary.blogspot.com/ 17th Century Dresses, 17th Century Gown, 17th Century Dress, 17th Century Clothing, 1700 Fashion, 17th Century Fashion, Period Dress, History Fashion, Period Outfit

I realized I never quite got around to posting about the 1670s gown I made earlier this year. It's mostly based on the satin bodice in Seventeenth Century Women's Dress Patterns. The instructions and patterns offer so much detail there wasn't much else to research in terms of construction. This was for a film shoot at Bacon's Castle, and it didn't seem like the lady of the house would need something quite so elaborately trimmed. I also needed something slightly later in date than the extant…

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