Pinkdiamond just posted a bunch of links...

[isabelladangelo]

...to portraits at Christies.

Very similar to what I've been seeing in Naples in the late 16th c...

So, Anne of the Thousand Days didn't have it wrong? :-) (Hint: Check out the french hood. Notice something?)

See? Dress up your dog is period. (Yes, that style is just barely out of period, but I do have other sources that show dogs were dressed to match their owners, pink ribbons in this case, or their owners heraldry..or just dressed up!)

More Italian Pretties

Thanks to pinkdiamond for posting these and a heck of a lot more. These were just the ones I really liked/thought were amusing.

Comments

[mistressfetch.livejournal.com]

It looks like her hair is showing but that wouldn't be right...also, if you zoom in closely you can see that her fingernails are dirty ;-) Just sayin'....

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

It's her hair. Hence the Anne of the Thousand Days reference where you have Anne running around with just a pretty hair band (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jackthecat/305744038/in/set-72157594319785875/) until after she marries Henry practically. Since loose hair like that was a symbol of virginity/innocence, the makers of the movie might have actually been going off the period concept and been trying to show Anne as innocent prior to falling for Henry. It really puts a new twist on that movie.