![]() 1), who is shown dressing in a rather daringly informal portrait. We’re given a rare peek at early seventeenth-century stays in the portrait of Elizabeth Vernon, Countess of Southampton (Fig. The foundation garment for all dress was the chemise, atop which women now wore stays to create the desirable silhouette of the time. Until about 1620, women still wore embroidered jackets.” (273) While some forms were inspired by the Continent… drum-farthingales and starched fan collars for women – the volume of the silhouette, the richness and stiffness of materials and the heavily loaded decoration kept the character of sixteenth-century modes. “Elizabethan influence lasted until well after the death of the Queen in 1603. ![]() Daniel Delis Hill confirms this in The History of World Costume and Fashion (2011), writing that “at the beginning of the seventeenth century, women’s clothing retained many of the contours and design elements from the end of the previous century” (406).įrançois Boucher offers further details in his History of Costume in the West (1997): ![]() Just as the reign of Queen Elizabeth I would last into the first years of the seventeenth century, fashion trends of the 1590s would also endure into the new century. ![]()
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