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Studying Planning my gown Slashed doublet Slashed sleeves

The slashed gown of Isabel de Valois

Whoa... what a gown... what a project.

I found myself staring in awe each time this sweet little portrait crossed my path on my way through the internet. Those slashed spanish sleeves are just... well, I would guess that in the time this gown was worn and painted, people would have called sleeves like those fairly decadent - lately, I have said to someone that those sleeves would probably have had an effect likely to what a *very* short mini skirt and a *deep* neckline (down to the navel) would be in modern times.
It's an extremely unique gown, which should be recognizable to anyone who has seen the portrait just once, if I will manage to produce a just 'likely' copy.

And I *so* dislike the orange color of the gown. At some point of time, however, it dawned me that I wouldn't have to make the gown in orange if I didn't want to.
Now - we may now have a very long discussion whether light aqua blue is period for Elizabethan clothing or not - I must admit that I don't know a single portrait of any person from that time wearing a gown of that color - but it was definitely possible to dye that color by the means of cornflowers.
So I saw no reason not to make the gown (or rather: At least start on a study of the gown) when I found a nice fabric that would match it. I'm still not quite sure if I should make it in aqua blue or garnet red - but one thing is for sure: Given the chance, I will most definitely make this gown.

For a start, I have searched the net for pictures of this gown, respectively the portrait. To my surprise I was only able to find one rather bad scan of it, this one here:

*BUT*... there was Michaela's wonderful site, which also had some close-up pictures of the portrait. So I took the bad scan, enlarged it, and replaced some parts of it with Michaela's close-ups.
This here is the result, which I find much better for studying (and quite large - I have to warn you):

After seeing what I am about to do, Michaela was so nice to send me her original photos of the portrait which I have used in the above shown collage.
With them, I was able to make yet another collage - and an even nicer one than the one above. It was a bit difficult, as Michaela's photos were taken at an angle, but I think I managed to match up the picture of the painting and Michaela's photos quite nicely. Here's the new collage:


(*large* file - about 0.5 MB)

Now that I had a nice source for studying the gown, but no fabric at hand yet, I thought it couldn't hurt to open up a page for studying that particular gown, which will be called "Studying".

Please follow me....

Studying Planning my gown Slashed doublet Slashed sleeves

Contact: Please write to naergilien@yahoo.de with the word "Costume" in the subject line. My mail server will delete all mails automatically that don't have this word in the subject line; except if you are on my whitelist (which you are probably not if I have never written to you).
It may take me some days to answer - please be patient. If I shouldn't answer within a week, it's almost safe to say that I didn't receive your mail (for what reason ever) - in that case please resend it.

All images of my costumes and also the tutorial pictures as well as the descriptions of my work and various techniques on this site are copyrighted to me.
So don't take my pictures for publishing (e.g. other websites, books etc.; no matter if they are commercial or not) without asking me before you do so and especially not without getting my permission to do this.
My server is mostly set up in a way that it doesn't allow hot linking on images; so if you need to link to me, please link to one of my sites (hint: that's everything ending with ".htm" or "html" in your browser's address bar) on which you found the picture that you would like to link to.

All images of paintings or original movie costumes were not taken by me (except if stated so) and are on this site for educational purposes.
As far as I could, I have credited the original photographers and/or their sites or have mentioned from where I have scanned certain pictures. They remain property of their respective owners.

Kontakt: Bitte schreibt an naergilien@yahoo.de mit dem Wort 'Costume' in der Betreffzeile. Die Mailbox ist so eingerichtet, daß sie alle Mails, die nicht diesen Betreff haben und deren Versender auch nicht auf meiner Whitelist stehen, erst einmal löscht.
Es kann einige Tage dauern, bis ich Euch antworten kann - bitte habt Geduld. Wenn ich nicht innerhalb einer Woche antworte, so habe ich Eure Mail wahrscheinlich nicht erhalten (aus welchem Grunde auch immer) - in diesem Fall schickt sie bitte einfach nochmal los.

Alle Bilder auf dieser Seite der von mir angefertigten Kostüme, der Herstellungsprozesse, Anleitungsbilder und Ausstellungen unterliegen dem deutschen Urheberrecht, welches im Streitfalle länderübergreifend gilt.
Klaut meine Bilder also nicht, um sie zu veröffentlichen (sei das nun in Druck- oder Filmmedien, auf privaten oder geschäftlichen Webseiten etc) ohne mich vorher zu fragen, ob das in Ordnung ist und natürlich nicht, ohne von mir dann die Erlaubnis zu bekommen.
Mein Server ist größtenteils so eingerichtet, daß er den meisten Seiten keinen direkten Link auf Bilder hier erlaubt. Wollt ihr also unbedingt ein Bild von mir irgendwo verlinken, so verlinkt die Seite, auf der sich das Bild befindet (Hinweis: Eine 'Seite' ist in diesem Falle etwas, das in der Adreßzeile Eures Browsers mit 'htm' oder 'html' endet).

Alle Fotos von Gemälden (außer, wenn von mir selber gemacht) und originalen Filmkleidern (gleichfalls) befinden sich zu Studienzwecken in meinem Web. Soweit ich konnte, habe ich die ursprünglichen Quellen, Seiten oder Fotografen der Bilder genannt. Diese Bilder sind Eigentum ihrer Besitzer.

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