Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Rural clothing — pictures
1642
http://www.portsdown.demon.co.uk/java_bin/image_1.htm
Men, women, children, soldiers, a clergyman.
From the “Living History Village of Little Woodham” site.
Entry annotations for 1 January and 2 February 1660 have comments on men’s dress by Susanna, including her valuable link to illustrations of men’s and women’s fashions of this entire cnetury, reposted by Sharon on 1 May 1660:
The above site has moved:
History of Costume
One of the colour plates on 17th century England. More on the site:
http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/PLATE58CX.HTML
Sex, Lice and Chamber pots in Pepys’ London. by Liz Picard
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/society_culture/society/pepys_gallery.shtml
comment on fashion by J.Evelyn:
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/1914/tyrannus-text.html
“It was a fine silken thing which I spied walking th
best whites : MECHANICALL ARTS.- Cloathing. [See also subsequent chapters on this
subject] At Salisbury the best whites of England are made. The city
was ever also famous for the manufactures of parchment, razors,
cizers, knives, and gloves. Salisbury mault is accounted the best
mault, and they drive there a very considerable trade in maulting.
Also it is not to be forgotten that the bottle ale of Salisbury (as
likewise Wilton, upon the same reason, sc. the nitrous water) is the
best bottle ale of this nation.
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE
JOHN AUBREY Release Date: January, 2004 [EBook #4934]
17th century clothing
Dolls, but so accurate, and so adorable - and you can even buy them…
A Sam Pepys Paper Doll set complete with outfits de jour!
http://www.gallimauphry.com/PD/pepys/pepys.html
fashion from the Sun king
http://www.englishcountrydancing.org/frenchfashion.html
Needles, Pins, Bodkins, Thimbles, Scissors
http://www.sealedknot.org/knowbase/docs/0010_PinsNeedles.htm
Of Men & Their Elegance
“The Baroque man was grand and used many subterfuges to convey maximum height; he was perched on high-heeled shoes, wore a narrow, fitted, knee-length coat, and on his head was a tall, full wig of natural hair, which only the very wealthy could afford. As much a symbol of class as clothing, the introduction of this ‘periwig’ was gradual and long lived. Reacting against sterner days, the beribboned and bowed dress style caused quite a stir. In a passage from The Life and Times of Anthony Wood dated 1663, the author described it as ‘a strange effeminate age when men strive to imitate women in their apparel, viz. long periwigs, patches in their faces, painting, short wide breeches like petticoats, muffs, and their clothes highly scented, bedecked with ribbons of all colours.’ ” Further narrative with images: http://dept.kent.edu/museum/exhibit/menswear/1660-1770.htm
Book on clothes during Pepys’s era:
“Fashion and Fiction: Dress in Art and Literature in Stuart England” by Aileen Ribeiro, Yale, 387pp.
Reviewed by Ann Pasternak Slater in the 29 April 2006 “Guardian Review”:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1762891,00.html
“Aileen Ribeiro’s sumptuous book covers fashion from 1603-1714, the reign of six monarchs and the Cromwellian interregnum. It is indefatigably embellished with minute detail.”
“Petticoat breeches were generously garnished with bunches of ribbons at waist and knee. In the 1650s a Kentish Parliamentarian bought 72 yards of ribbon for one suit and 108 yards for another. One illustration shows a cream figured silk suit shapelessly trimmed with 218 yards of banana-bunch ribbons… . A friend of Pepys spent an entire day with both legs down one half of his fashionably wide petticoat breeches, never noticing his mistake.”
“With Van Dyck’s classicizing influence came rich but vaguely draped court portraits.” [Recall Elizabeth’s now-destroyed likeness by Hayls, with its loosely-anchored frontage. And might this be applicable to E. and Ashwell?] “After the 1650s there was little perceptible difference between the dress of a gentlewoman and her maid.”
In all, it sounds intruiging; and Yale books are always produced to the highest visual standards.
17th c costume
“Two Centuries of Costume in America”, Vol. 1 (1620-1820), by Alice Morse Earle, ca.1900
[A real treasure trove for 17th c costume!]
From the “Book of Days” (1879)
“Dress of a Lady of Fashion in the Seventeenth Century”
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