Oh! Neat!

[isabelladangelo]

http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/search-the-collection/display.php?EMUSESSID=7ad855cba1edc28444a4493a9b4f6244&irn=37708

...I could totally wear that with a pair of jeans and no one would know that it was a remake of an 18th c bodice....

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[kaypendragon.livejournal.com]

Is it just me, or does the description not seem to match the photo on that link?

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

I've had that problem a lot with their website. It's doesn't match but it looks like it might be a recycled jacket from one of the earlier eras. Fur lined jackets were popular in the later half of the 17th c so it might just have been one of those and then taken in .

[kaypendragon.livejournal.com]

BTW and slightly off topic - have you looked at the Victoria and Albert muesum website? It's not nearly as awesome as actually visiting the V&A but it's pretty darn cool.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/index.html

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

Yeap! And I've even been there are couple of years ago. I loved it! I'm just playing with website while I'm at work and posting things so I'll remember where the heck they are later.

[kaypendragon.livejournal.com]

I went (sometime around 04) and it was grand. Speaking of the V&A collections, does your 17th c. dress have pockets? 'Cause you can't be historically accurate without separate pockets! (The V&A has a pattern...)

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

It will when I finish it. :-) I have pockets with my 18th c underthings and I think I'll just use those. They are this interesting cotton weave that everyone has mistaken for either linen or hemp so I think they are pretty okay.

[koshka-the-cat.livejournal.com]

Not just you--it's definitely not a long sleeved embroidered linen jacket! Oops :)

[kaypendragon.livejournal.com]

Oh good. I'm glad I'm not crazy.

[sstormwatch.livejournal.com]

I totally understand what you mean. I can also envision it in red silk, over a Victorian or Edwardian skirt, too.

And I agree that the description does not match.

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

oh....red silk....I feel I might have to make two of 'em. Now to find a lot of white rabbit fur edging....