16th Century Flemish Market Woman's Costume

Resource Links

• Generally
• Hrynkiw/Braidwood: 16th Century Flemish Market Woman's Costume in Art
• Leed: 1560s Flemish Marketwomen's Outfit
• Leed: Working Womens' Dress in 16th Century Flanders
• Leed: Constructing a 16th century Flemish Outfit
• Thompson/Festive Attyre: A Working Woman's Dress Revisited
• Reed: How Much is Enough? Yardages Used in Late 16th-Century Women's Clothing
• Reed: Fifteenth Century Visual Sources and Costume Research: An Analysis

Clothing pieces are arranged in the order they appear on the body (from the inside out, from the top down), major pieces first, then accessories.

• Chemise
  • Leed: Sewing Your Smock Together
    EB comment: I prefer to leave my gussets in one square piece and inserting them into the sleeve and side seams rather than cutting them into triangles so I can sew the sleeve, gusset, side seam and gore in one long seam. I find this leaves much more ease in the gusset and they're more comfortable as a consequence.
• Kirtle
  • Leed: Making an Elizabethan Bodice Pattern
    EB comment: I trimmed about 1.5-2 inches from the bottom of this bodice to bring the waistline up to the narrowest part of my torso. A vanity to encourage the perception that I have a slim waist.
  • Leed: Making a Gored Kirtle Pattern
  • Leed: Constructing a Gathered Kirtle
  • Thompson/Festive Attyre: The Zen of Spiral Lacing
• Gown
  • Thompson/Festive Attyre: A Working Woman's Dress Revisited: Further research into Flemish working woman's dress of the 16th century
  • Leed: Period Pleats
  • Shinrone Gown [Original]
  • Link: Wooded Hamlet: Worsted Wool Tapes
  • Finley: Brughel research: Instructions on how to make Jessica's Brughel Bodice
• Cap and Hair
  • Leed: Constructing an Elizabethan Caul/Muffin Cap
  • Eva: White Flemish Caps
  • ExtremeCostuming: How To Wear A Coif
  • Faoiltighearna: Hair Taping (broken link noted 7 Jan 2007)
  • Leed: 16th and 17th C. Coifs
• Partlet
  • Leed: Partlet
  • Thompson/Festive Attyre: Partlet Pattern
  • Laurelin: Partlets
  • Leed: Constructing Elizabethan Ruffs
    With articles by additional authors.
  • Laurelin: Ruffs
• Jacket
• Gollar (black wool shoulder cape)
• Sleeves
• Belt, Pouch
  • Curious Frau: Bags and Purses in 16th Century Germany
• Apron
• Shoes
  • Curious Frau: Shoes in 16th Century Germany

Reproductions

• Beth's Dress (costune diary)
• Julie's Flemish Peasant (costume diary)
• Brittney Belz: Flemish Influenced Faire-wear (costume diary)
• Heather's Flemish Gown Journal (costume diary)
• Karen: back front
• Maura (example garment) ("Closed for redesign, Oct 2006")
• Melanie Schussler (example garments)
• Jennifer Thompson/Festive Attyre (costume diary, research, critical examination)
• Ysabelot-Clarisse (costume diary)

Topics in the Neighbourhood

• The Curious Frau (16th C. German): Articles and Art Research
• Breughel's Flemish Peasants (Breughal 1525-1569)
  • Fairfax: Ensemble for a Well-Off Peasant Child of Rural Flanders in 1560
  • Fairfax: The Breughel Gowns
  • Finley/Ginafae: Brughel research: Peasant Dance
• What the Irish Wore: The Shinrone Gown - An Irish Dress from the Elizabethan Age]
• Kentwell Hall (English, 1578): What to Wear -- Women
• Thompson/FestiveAttyre: Italian Working-Class Dress: Examples Found in Renaissance Art from 1575-1600
• Braidwood: Flemish Mouse

Original content © Donna Hrynkiw 2006