Showing posts with label corded corset/bodice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label corded corset/bodice. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Things to make one ponder

1) Hasting's blog.

I was reading her post about the Poste she made for the Artemesian Costuming Challenge and I noticed that the bodice of the gown in one of her references


















Portrait of a Woman by Paolo Zacchia the Elder

looks a whole lot like like the bodices I 'bone' with hemp cord.

So far as I know, no one has found any definitive evidence that bodices were corded to provide support in period but this picture has me going hmm...

You know, what I need is a research minion!