What I really want to do is a post just on the mantua, but I know that if I do that I'm going to have to explain court dress first to feel like it's complete.  But court dress is interesting on its own merits, anyway! In the later seventeenth century, court dress was basically the … Continue reading English and French Women's Court Dress

Back to your regularly scheduled programming! I haven't seen many references to any of these, but I thought I should cover them anyway. The Robe à la Levantine Robe à la Levantine garnie en hermine, coëffure à la Créole: le juppon et la soubreveste nommées l'Assyrienne; inventé par P.N. Sarrazin Costumier ordinaire de Nosseigneurs les … Continue reading The Robes à la Levantine, à la Sultane, and à la Reine

I wanted to take a moment out from discussing types of dresses and look at the "amadis sleeves" that popped up when I was researching the Lévite.  As I discovered before, this referred at one point to a type of sleeve invented in the seventeenth century by an opera singer which covered the back of … Continue reading Amadis Sleeves