1660s Dutch Ensemble: Everything Else (& final photos!)

1660s Dutch Ensemble The Bodice The Huik Everything Else (you are here) Shift I actually left this and the partlets until the end, though they're first in this post! I was torn between making a low-necked shift (appropriate for elite women) and a high-necked shift (everyone else). Some paintings do depict wealthy women with high-necked …

1660s Dutch Ensemble: The Huik & Houpette

1660s Dutch Ensemble The Bodice The Huik (you are here) Everything Else  The Huik I spent quite a while waffling over this piece. I needed winter outerwear, but in preliminary research was surprised to note that women do not appear to have commonly used hooded cloaks until the 18th century. Clearly, I was going to …

1660s Dutch Ensemble: The Bodice

1660s Dutch Ensemble The Bodice (you are here) The Huik (not yet posted) Everything Else (not yet posted) Just to introduce this with a general idea of what the final will look like: I was inspired by Gabriel Metsu’s paintings of a woman cooking, and from there branched out to other Dutch artists of the […]