[MR] book on Spanish costuming

[Grace Morris]

This is the ONLY book in English on Spanish costume, and it is a  
"must-have" if you are interested in this place and time.  Also, I've  
managed to track down the original art for quite a few of the cropped  
illustrations, and I have them up on my website.

Jessamyn di Piemonte
jessamynscloset.com

On Friday, December 10, 2004, at 10:05 AM, SNSpies at aol.com wrote:

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> The IBSN  is 0875351263 . Amazon currently has new copies (re-printed)  
> for
> $29 (no, I  have no association with Amazon, other then giving them a  
> sizable
> chunk of my  paycheck every month :-) ). My mother has the original  
> printing,
> and I have  the re-print, and I can't tell the difference between the  
> two,
> despite the  more then ten-year gap between issues.
>
> _Hispanic Costume: 1480 - 1530_  by Ruth M. Anderson only covers  
> Spanish and
> Portuguese fashion (as the title  may suggest). It's roughly split in  
> half --
> one half covering male dress and  the other half covering female  
> dress. Within
> each gender there is a long  section on "occassions for men/women to  
> wear
> fancy dress" -- this is mostly  from a royal perspective, as the royal  
> wardrobe
> accounts are some of the main  written sources Anderson uses. The  
> other half of
> the section covers all the  different garments being worn, from hair  
> and
> headdress, shoes, hose,  shirts/shifts/chemises (I forget the Spanish  
> term
> Anderson uses for these) to  the main garment, outer garments and  
> jewelry. Most of
> the pictures in the book  are black-and-white, however what I find most
> wonderful about the organization  -- for each section on hair, shoes,  
> shifts, etc.
> Anderson has detail-pictures  from many different  
> paintings/sculpture/prints. So,
> for women's chemises, she  has ~12 different close-ups of how the  
> chemise
> band works and of embellishment  on the chemise, so you can see the  
> range of
> variations. The close-up shots  only show the garment being discussed  
> -- so it
> will cut off the figure's face  if it's showing the chemise and only  
> show the
> feet if the stockings are what  is being discussed. In my opinion  
> doing this sort
> of selective cropping of the  art allows you to see much more detail  
> then if
> you only had a full-page print  of the entire painting. (It also makes  
> the
> text easier to follow, as the  close-up pictures are almost always on  
> the same
> page as the text that refers  to them). All of the close-up pictures  
> have dates
> and attributions, so you  know what painting it comes from.
>
>
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