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I have posted some new pictures of my treatment of the Garzia deMedici suit of clothes treated with such intricacy by Janet Arnold in POF and photographed with amazing detail at 'Realm of Venus' (link below).

They were patterned in a manner faithful to this extent doublet & trunkhose in terms of seams, cut., piecing and especially the placement of the many, many eyelets. The doublet is almost entirely handwork, including embroidery. The buttons are handmade basket-woven linen thread over a wooden core as detailed on my "Doublet Diary" blog: garb4guys.blogspot.com/2008/0...wo.html

This suit was made to beta test the pattern and provide examples & fodder for period costume and construction discussions and will be shortly followed by a russet silk set that's a more exacting replication, to be made entirely by hand. I'll admit that I'm not looking forward to handsewing those panes for the trunkhosen, though, so I may well "allow" the hotrod to sew those for me depending on how my hands are feeling when that portion of the costuming comes up for completion.

I modified the line of the doublet's waist a bit to conform my my long-waisted torso and the colors I chose were inspired by Moroni's tailor and the book "1000 Years of Textiles". The trunkhose were made under deadline pressures (a wedding) so were constructed mostly on the machine.

I prototype and beta test all my patterns. This suit of clothes is the beta test.

Moroni's Unknown Tailor
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Extant Doublet & Trunkhose of Don Garzia @ Realm of Venus
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