THEA 234 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Farthingale, Janet Arnold, Overcoat
18 Jan 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Improvements in technology allows for the creation of far tighter and faster produced weave that wouldn"t have been possible before. Also started knitting hose, but using a machine and thus allowing for mass production of tighter hose that now are really very much tights. Still have men as tailors and women as seamstresses. Janet arnold, the costume reconstructionist who developed techniques for putting extant garments back together. Steel needles were invented, which meant the points stayed sharper and were smaller increasing the intricacy of the embroidery and beading. On women in elizabethan start to get an even lower waist, at the natural waist with a dip at a minimum. See a belt/girdle on the waist a lot, also with pomanders at the end especially because hygiene was pretty nonexistent. Curls in hair and draping of jewelry seen a lot. Sleeves could also be very large and padded on nobles. Stomacher, false front or ornamental covering for v silhouette on women.
