[MR] Late period heraldic display

[Karen]

Are you just looking for garments & clothing accessories for displaying
the badge?  Do they have to be German?

Some possibilities I can think of would be to have the badge in
embroidery and/or beadwork, especially on the plastron of the gown. 
Duchess Katharine of Mecklenburg, in the portrait by Lucas Cranach the
Elder ca. 1514 at
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/c/cranach/lucas_e/5/01duke.html has her
in a plastron embroidered (or otherwise ornamented) with a repeating
pattern involving the letter M -- which I'm guessing is intended as
some kind of badge or cypher.  (The interesting band on her skirt could
be another interesting way to use a badge, repeating it several times
in a row, if it's a fairly simple or distinctive shape.)

The Markgrave Casimir of Brandenburg, in a portrait by Hans Süss von
Kulmbach from 1511, wears a plastron embroidered (partially in pearls)
with a pattern of pelicans-in-their-piety and mullets; he also has what
appears to be another sort of badge in his headdress.
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/art/k/kulmbach/margrave.jpg

Sometimes there are mottoes embroidered on the plastron, as seen in
Hans Burgkmair's portrait of Barbara Schellenberger, 1505 --
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/b/burgkmai/portrait.html

Other examples of figural embroidery or ornamentation on the plastron
(which could be adapted towards display of a heraldic badge):

Portrait of Anna Cuspinian, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1502
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/c/cranach/lucas_e/6/2cuspin.html

Portrait of a woman, by Bernhard Strigel
www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1.asp?dep=11&full=1&item=71%2E34

Portrait of a woman, 1525
http://www.fng.fi/fng/pic/huge/art/collecti/00/S0000900.jpg

Salome, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1530
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/c/cranach/lucas_e/9/05salome.html

Portrait of a young woman, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1530
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/c/cranach/lucas_e/5/09woman.html

Portrait of the Saxon Princesses Sibylla, Emilia and Sidonia, by Lucas
Cranach the Elder, 1535
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/c/cranach/lucas_e/7/04prince.html

I suppose the plastron is really a better place for a fairly simple and
monochromatic sort of badge.


Other places to put a heraldic badge on an early 16th century German
lady's gown, and possible places for badgely ornamentation as suggested
by the outfits (based on various portraits which you can find at
http://frazzledfrau.glittersweet.com and elsewhere): the embroidery in
the head-covering or along the visible part of the smock; on a honking
big jewelled pendant; as ornaments on a belt (see especially the
portrait of a 34-year-old woman by Holbein ca. 1516-1517 at
http://www.abcgallery.com/H/holbein/fholbein3.html for a neat example
of that), the inner brim of the flat cap (as Cranach's portrait of a
princess at http://www.marquise.de/en/1500/pics/152x_6.shtml for
example)


Karen