Extant
Italian Men's/Boy's Shirts (Camicie)
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Metropolitan
Museum, New York
c1580
- 1600
"Linen
shirt with reversible embroidery in polychrome silks,
silver and silver-gilt thread."
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"There is an eyelet hole at each end of the
wristband worked in crimson silk. The bobbin lace is
sewn around the cuff and up the sleeve opening."
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©
For
more information, more detail shots, and a pattern for this
shirt, see:
Janet Arnold, Patterns of Fashion 4. Macmillan, London, 2008.
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©
G Willet
and Philis Cunnington, The History of Underclothes. Dover
Publications, New York, 1992.
There is no description of
this shirt included in the book. |
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