Of course you speak sense. You're speaking costume. I never waste brain space on proper "layer" vocabulary. Especially since it's so hotly contested in some circles. And since the Italians seemed to invent a new name depending on region, weight of garment, whether it was lined and what it was made of. I'm getting too old to memorize this stuff.
Personally, I'd have dressed you in something with a lower waist, like Ghirlandaio's "Birth of Mary" (1486-ish) - Gold and white dressed woman in the middle. (Web Gallery of Art has it) Or other similar ones by him. I think it's more flattering on womanly shapes.
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Re: OK, you can drag me along...
Date: 2005-11-29 10:08 pm (UTC)Personally, I'd have dressed you in something with a lower waist, like Ghirlandaio's "Birth of Mary" (1486-ish) - Gold and white dressed woman in the middle. (Web Gallery of Art has it) Or other similar ones by him. I think it's more flattering on womanly shapes.
http://homepage.mac.com/festive_attyre/research/earlyflor/3flor13.html
Or the white one here: (she has her train pulled up and wrapped around her arm)
http://homepage.mac.com/festive_attyre/research/earlyflor/3flor18.html
Jen's 1475 website has a bunch of nice pictures from this era in Florence.