The shirt of the day~Since sadly that is all I have is the shirt :( Good thing is its all so pretty and 1600’s :)

I love the 1600’s and wish there where more garments still around but sadly unlike the 1700’s where you find lots and lots of garments that have survived it is hard to find many garments that have survived, the most you find is lace from the period but when you come across something this nice and old you can’t help but get excited about it especially when its in such good condition :) This lovely shirt is from the Victoria and Albert museum in the UK which I so wish I could go to, but first have to get my health a lot better before I can travel there, but when I do expect many many lovely posts about fashion :) So with out further a due here is the shirt…..

















Now the painting that is in the back drop is not the lady who owned the shit, but the reason this painting is put in the exhibit is to show how a women would wear a shirt like this as you can see the shirt in the painting is quite similar in all aspects, but as you can tell the lady has spruced her outfit up with a big ruffled Elizabethan collar and extra lace at the sleeves, most lace back then was detachable so that one could rewear it with other outfits as lace back then was exorbitantly expensive it was much wiser to buy a few really good pieces of lace and reuse them with all of ones wardrobe, we also see that the lady in the painting has a long sleeveless robe to wear with the outfit, now onto the shirt its self the shirt is made of Linen and highly embroidered designs of flowers and veins and embroidered with silk thread and real silver thread also the lace that is attached to this shirt is of such a high quality and very beautiful with silver thread in the lace so this glorious shirt was made in England and made around 1610-15 and altered in 1620, but really this is such a great example of the 1600’s that I all hope you all enjoyed this as much as me :)