...to computer screens everythwere--pics of my husband in his new 1560s italian outfit--doublet and paned trunk hose and bonnet.
Based on the outfit of the Medici (sorry, can't remember his first name at the moment) who died in 1562 (at the age of 15, so I had to enlarge the pattern) from the patterns in Janet Arnold's _Patterns of Fashion_
doublet is pewter silk (which i found for only $5/yd, woohoo!), lined with copper colored silk, trunk hose and canions mint green silk, panes are velveteen (remind me to not work with velveteen, or anything else that sheds, ever again)
i used silk floss for the buttonholes, buttons are covered with the same pewter silk--i used one of those handy buttonmaking things you can get anywhere
feathers are from Hobby Lobby
the bonnet pattern i found somehwere online.
shoes are Chinese shoes--the kind with fabric soles, not the red rubber
here's the whole collar and a (not quite sharply focused close-up)
pattern was found at this website: http://www.needlenthread.com/
