Isabella's German Dress

[isabelladangelo]

Here is another look at one of the two paintings that was my inspiration for this dress. It's Venus and Amor by Holbein and I'm sure most of you have seen it many many times before.

Here's my self portrait that I took at the renn fest. I kept forgetting to ask anyone I knew to take a picture of me. Oh well!

And here's the full dress on the dress dummy. Honestly, it looks a LOT better on me.

One small detail point, I sewed the ribbons on the dress for a reason. If you look at Lais of Corinth which is a very similar (possibly the same but the details are different) dress, you can see on her left shoulder (our right) that the ribbon closest to us looks to be folded over and has a starburst like stitch pattern on it rather than going through an eyelet on the dress. Now, it may be just some affect of the painting but I rather liked the idea of just sewing the ribbons to the dress (so they wouldn't slip as much and you are far less likely to loose them) than creating yet more eyelets.

Comments

[accidentallarue.livejournal.com]

Very pretty! Love the inspiration dress as well.

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I've been wanting to make the dress for a while and finally had the excuse I needed. :-)

[accidentallarue.livejournal.com]

You should send it to Realm of Venus. They are always looking for garb, and the dress itself is very Italian looking as well, early Italian, anyway.