I love mid-late 17th century fashion! I feel like this era of fashion is so overlooked compared to other eras. I would love to have a gorgeous dress from this era
I don’t know how I was lucky enough to stumble on this page but I’ve been enthralled here for hours. You are brilliant at what you do. The attention to detail and all you share is amazing. I’ll be back often!
I love it!! I turn on the closed captions in case I miss what she's saying. Sometimes she's in an historic house or manor house, and the echo can't be helped,big rooms. Always be kind.😊
There's just something about the mid 17th century fashion that's endlessly beautiful, from about 1625-1685 is just beautiful, and in my head, are the fashions I imagine when I think fairytales
I believe versions of Cinderella & Sleeping Beauty *were* written at this time- 'Cendrillon' & 'La Belle au Bois Dormant' ('The Beauty sleeping in the Woods')- the translation of Cinderella mentions stomachers, when the step-sisters talk about what they're going to wear...
This is such a beautiful design-- I particularly love the boned bodice over those gorgeous sleeves! I haven't seen many gowns from this period. Thank you for sharing this one with us.
I knew I was born in the wrong time. This is gorgeous. Seeing the pics you put up when describing a dress are very helpful to envision what a dress truly looked like in "real life".
Lovely; and that first portrait you picked looked a bit like you! Thank you also for showing us the components of the covered stays; I eventually plan to make one of those boned collars from the late 19th Century and now know that I can put my hobble skirt belt buckram to further use!
Oh how lovely the dress is. You are so talented. When I was a little girl in England I used to dream of being in those days, wearing those beautiful clothes. Of course, I wouldn’t have wanted to live in the conditions they lived in 🙂
Thank you so much for that! I’ve just finished reading Samuel Pepys diary online, and his wife died aged 29 in 1669. By then she was able to afford very nice clothes and Sam even wore gold lace of his cuffs! She used to spend a lot of her time at Unthanks the tailors where she’d buy material, have clothes made, chat with other ladies and have a coffee. I’ve been longing to see in detail the kind of clothes she might have worn on a special occasion, so thanks again for this fascinating video.
Thank you; been waiting for something like that for quite some time! Hope to see more outfits from the last decade of Charles II's reign (1675-1685). As for the stays, can you point me at when exactly they started going out of style and getting replaced with the bodices like this one, around 1685 or earlier?
This gown is fabulous! I'm really curious about the fancy chemise, since undergarments would be washed a lot. I'm sure Catherine of Braganza wore hers to flex her wealth, but still. Would the lace stand up to frequent washing, or did Catherine's survive because it wasn't worn very much at all?
@priorattire no offense meant ma'am. Was just making an observation. I have never heard any of your videos echo so much, hence the mention. I have been watching your amazing videos for a long time.
Apart from the sleeves on the bodice which really don't look that comfortable I really do prefer this style to the later 18thC & 19thC fashions [ regency excepted]. It is poofy without being over the top as the later ones are, the fabrics are beautiful and the skirt over the petticoat is so easy to put on yourself. With a front lacing bodice this would be the perfect design for anyone and so much easier than all the layers you get later on. Oh, and I remember being in rooms like that where the echoes sound. However you were still very easy to understand - more so than most other videos in fairness - and despite having temporary hearing issues I could hear and understand you perfectly without having recourse to the captions that I've found I've needed on so many other channels recently. Your voice is always lovely and lucid while you enunciate your words so clearly that you are a pleasure to listen to. Greetings from Ireland.
Actually, that is quite lovely. If I was a lady of that time, I would be very proud to own that dress and wear it proudly. Of course it might be noon by the time I was dressed and ready to meet my friends. But, I would look marvelous!
I love watching you put together these wonderful outfits and the explanations of the items. Is it your husband who takes the still shots? They are really exceptional.
I didn't notice it had captions. That's excellent :) especially for someone who is still learning English. I learn so many new words with these videos.
@@priorattirefor god sakes! Invest in a directional microphone! Poor audio quality detracts from the historical presentation. It gives an unfortunate impression of amateurish carelessness. Blithely suggesting to use CC is not a professional solution.
the stays just are laced more loosely at the bottom to make room for the baby bump. The bodice is still shaped the same and the bones and busk still are in place. Google That Would Be Enough from Hamilton or The Great pregnancy to see examples of pregnancy in stays. (The Great is a bit better because it shows the actor in just the stays and maternity stays, at that (side-lacing), but Hamilton is a bit more historically accurate to this era since The Great's costumes are sometimes a little fantastical.)
Its not a whole lot different than a Vivienne Westwood couture gown... In fact, without the lace and chemise, with a single color of taffeta used for the entire thing, it really is the same thing pretty much. The mid 17th century is my absolute favorite. I particularly like the 'posing gowns' in portraits...that actually weren't real, apparently. Just an artistic I guess the 17th century version of a glamour shot ala the 1980s lol
I wonder how much of this outfit was originally designed as interchangeable, for instance that beautiful silk brocade underskirt clearly matches the rest, but how many underskirts would a wealthy woman own at the time & did they try to make things interchangeable? The girls in my high school assessed wealth by how many new dresses one had to wear. (sadly i only had 3 new simple dresses per year myself & whatever else was hand-me-downs & was teased a lot for it.) I wonder if it was the same in the 1680's ?
I would imagine so. They would give cast offs to servants as gifts, plus nice fabric. They could either give away old ones or have them re-cut into the new silhouette. The difference was servants/middle class had to alter/sew their own
Have yu consider to use a tie-micro or headset? The resonance is sometimes quite painful, even at very low volume level, depend of the place you are filming. Very beautiful outfit, by the way!
@@priorattire it might be "authentic" but it's also extremely hard to understand and listen to. Your great work deserves better! I suggest recording a separate voice track on a good stationary mike.
Lovely video, very instructive too! What are the differences between the 1680 English gown and the 1680 French gown? I'm making one soon and it is hard to find information. Hope your can answer this message!
It's a shame for an on-going problem in all her videos. Poor audio ruins the historical presention and gives the impression of amateur carelessness. A better quality of a directional microphone would be an easy fix.
I love watching your videos, but my hearing is going and the echoing in some.of the empty rooms makes it so hard to understand what you are saying. Which is sad, because you are so knowledgeable about all this and I would love to hear it lol. I got maybe every third word in this video, sadly. 😢 But I still love watching them. The work you are putting in those garmensmts is absolutely stunning.
@@priorattire thanks for that tip. I have the captions on. Most of us with hearing issues know about the captions and use them. And sometimes even the automated captions don't catch what people are saying, so we get to read "inaudible". Which is very helpful. But thanks for the flippant response. Really helped a lot.
@@sidewalkpirate23 If it says "inaudible" even us people with really good hearing can't understand I use CC because 1/2 the time I watch on mute. I happened to watch this with CC and volume and where it says inaudible, it's inaudible. Also, there's nothing wrong with getting hearing aides. I use aides to tune the world out every single day (which is why YT is nearly always on mute.) Hearing aides help you hear; my aides help me NOT hear.
@@sidewalkpirate23 She does these videos in old buildingss with lousy acoustics and because she's literally getting dressed, a clip on mic doesn't work. This has been discussed a few times in other video comments. I think many of us who don't have hearing loss watch with the captions on for that reason. I just wish they weren't the automatically generated ones that don't always get the sewing or historical words right.
@@bunhelsingslegacy3549 I don't think you understand what lousy acoustics is. Lousy acoustics is being a room from the 1970s that has a short ceiling, paneled walls, popcorn ceilings and absorbs every single sound. As a singer, I LOATHED singing in these rooms for competitions. Sound dies the minute it leaves your mouth. I absolutely love a room like the one Izabella is in. Crowcombe Court, being a 18th Century home, was built in the English Regional Baroque style, and it's built to amplify sound (in other words, it's acoustic.) Yes, a bit harder to understand someone in a room that's not dead, but omg so heavenly to hear that a person could sing in it and not have to practically kill their lungs trying to project all that sound. Ugh, I really hate those dead rooms.
I have some other favorites, but this era is top-tier for me, too. It's a fun and kind of quirky (I mean that as a compliment ❤), like it doesn't take itself too seriously, as opposed to fashion a few generations later.
which lovely assistance in black and white, I can really understand the cats view resp. opinion about this great "Cloth" lying on the floor and making a very good noise "croush croush croush" one of my black cats, Vasgo , loves every piece of cloth in DIN A 4 size to put himself onto. I like this outfit better than the ones with more layers (or how do you call it if you are wearing so many levels like a "gateau de anniversaire". You did not sew it on your own, did you? is it too thick? I would really like to have one of those special repliques to wear it in our boring - like to be modern and future directed town of 21.000 habitants - on the streets doing shopping or waiting for the bus. ... What a wonderful ground you were on and is it always the same, no it is not! Thank you for such big pleasure you can wear all the dresses you would have been a recognized mannequin in former times, one more thank you for sharing that, greetings Crissy
17th Century! Truly an underrepresented era in fashion recreation.
That was a fantastic rendition. The fabric was gorgeous and the craftsmanship was impeccable. A true joy to watch.
Thank you for making and showing us such a lovely 17th c. outfit. The era doesn't get nearly enough love from other historical costumers.
I love mid-late 17th century fashion! I feel like this era of fashion is so overlooked compared to other eras. I would love to have a gorgeous dress from this era
Now I love this gown and especially the craftsmanship on it. I love this time period
I love how smoothly and neatly it fits together, with how the red overskirt tucks over the elaborate brocaded base skirt
I don’t know how I was lucky enough to stumble on this page but I’ve been enthralled here for hours. You are brilliant at what you do. The attention to detail and all you share is amazing. I’ll be back often!
I'm glad the cat has a cameo
I love those colors,goes beautifully with dark hair,love the curls ,too. You would have surely been most popular at court!! Very,very nice!!!😊
Interesting to see Charles II outfit just before the coronation of Charles III 😀
17th century fashion is my favorite. This costume is gorgeous! The color is perfect.
I’ve seen so many of your videos over the last few years, and this dress by far is the most beautiful dress I have seen.
I love it!! I turn on the closed captions in case I miss what she's saying. Sometimes she's in an historic house or manor house, and the echo can't be helped,big rooms. Always be kind.😊
There's just something about the mid 17th century fashion that's endlessly beautiful, from about 1625-1685 is just beautiful, and in my head, are the fashions I imagine when I think fairytales
I believe versions of Cinderella & Sleeping Beauty *were* written at this time- 'Cendrillon' & 'La Belle au Bois Dormant' ('The Beauty sleeping in the Woods')- the translation of Cinderella mentions stomachers, when the step-sisters talk about what they're going to wear...
@OcarinaSapph1r3 -24 yes, the works of Perrault are from later in this period I've mentioned, however my favorite is Giambatista Basile.
Gorgeous! Would love to see more dresses from this era they're very underdone
Absolutely stunning fabric, design, and model extraordinaire ❤❤❤
I've always loved the hairstyles of this era. Pretty ringlets at the front, and the back is pinned up to keep you cool.
My favorite era!!! This gown is BEAUTIFUL and I would die for it in turquoise... amazing video once again!! ❤
This is such a beautiful design-- I particularly love the boned bodice over those gorgeous sleeves! I haven't seen many gowns from this period. Thank you for sharing this one with us.
What a beautiful gown. Very figure-flattering period of history.
Gorgeous, one of my favourite eras though l don't know it would be practical for running for a bus 😊
I knew I was born in the wrong time. This is gorgeous. Seeing the pics you put up when describing a dress are very helpful to envision what a dress truly looked like in "real life".
All of your garments are fantastic but this one is especially beautiful to me. ❤ Thanks so much!
This is the cutest outfit I’ve seen in historical clothes ❤😊
Lovely; and that first portrait you picked looked a bit like you!
Thank you also for showing us the components of the covered stays; I eventually plan to make one of those boned collars from the late 19th Century and now know that I can put my hobble skirt belt buckram to further use!
Oh how lovely the dress is. You are so talented. When I was a little girl in England I used to dream of being in those days, wearing those beautiful clothes. Of course, I wouldn’t have wanted to live in the conditions they lived in 🙂
Absolutely glorious costume. One of your best yet. Truly gorgeous. I'd even consider wearing it and tbat says a lot from a life long tom boy. 🤓👍
Thank you so much for that! I’ve just finished reading Samuel Pepys diary online, and his wife died aged 29 in 1669. By then she was able to afford very nice clothes and Sam even wore gold lace of his cuffs! She used to spend a lot of her time at Unthanks the tailors where she’d buy material, have clothes made, chat with other ladies and have a coffee.
I’ve been longing to see in detail the kind of clothes she might have worn on a special occasion, so thanks again for this fascinating video.
I love this style-- and it looks gorgeous on you!
Very grand, in a "not too much nonsense" sort of way. Thanks for making and showing!
Thank you, and 🐈⬛ 🍀
When I tell you that I squeed when I saw this notification...!
It's an absolutely stunning & beautiful gown, Izabel!
Thank you; been waiting for something like that for quite some time! Hope to see more outfits from the last decade of Charles II's reign (1675-1685). As for the stays, can you point me at when exactly they started going out of style and getting replaced with the bodices like this one, around 1685 or earlier?
Thats stunning. ❤
Beautiful dress😍
A "tactical break," hahaha! Well done. That's a gorgeous gown!
That is such a beautiful shape. I really love it.
Nice to see 1680s fashion getting some love.
This is absolutely lovely. I adore Restoration clothes. That colour is perfect on you too.
GORGEOUS silhouette!
Your talent is extraordinary. And obviously Merlin is a huge help.
What an Excellent video!🌺That era has excellent books to read!💐
This gown is fabulous! I'm really curious about the fancy chemise, since undergarments would be washed a lot. I'm sure Catherine of Braganza wore hers to flex her wealth, but still. Would the lace stand up to frequent washing, or did Catherine's survive because it wasn't worn very much at all?
So beautiful and elegant! Very charming
Love the video, but it's really echoing in that room. The dress is absolutely gorgeous. You do such beautiful work.
This is a fully authentic sound! This is what you get at tall, marbled rooms :-)))
@priorattire no offense meant ma'am. Was just making an observation. I have never heard any of your videos echo so much, hence the mention. I have been watching your amazing videos for a long time.
Absolutely fabulous outfit! Love to see more!
Really lovely! I had hoped that the 1680s would win on your poll!
Apart from the sleeves on the bodice which really don't look that comfortable I really do prefer this style to the later 18thC & 19thC fashions [ regency excepted]. It is poofy without being over the top as the later ones are, the fabrics are beautiful and the skirt over the petticoat is so easy to put on yourself. With a front lacing bodice this would be the perfect design for anyone and so much easier than all the layers you get later on.
Oh, and I remember being in rooms like that where the echoes sound. However you were still very easy to understand - more so than most other videos in fairness - and despite having temporary hearing issues I could hear and understand you perfectly without having recourse to the captions that I've found I've needed on so many other channels recently. Your voice is always lovely and lucid while you enunciate your words so clearly that you are a pleasure to listen to. Greetings from Ireland.
Actually, that is quite lovely. If I was a lady of that time, I would be very proud to own that dress and wear it proudly. Of course it might be noon by the time I was dressed and ready to meet my friends. But, I would look marvelous!
Beautiful dress.
This is my absolute favorite! Love it!
I loce the 14-17 th century womens clothes and detail. You do a great job. I love your videos. Keep up the great work.
absolutely gorgeous
This looks like it may be cooler with the stays being part of the top of the outfit rather than an undergarment
Love this dress!
That is an amazing dress again Izabella !! Absolutely love it and did really enjoy watching this video as always ;-)
Your work is impeccable: Dziekuje!!!
Incredible!! Just truly love
I love this, its so simple and elegant! ❤
What a lovely outfit! Do you have any videos of how to do the hairstyles of this time?
Stunning!
The dress is very pretty. You look nice in it.
The 1680's was such a gorgeous period of fashion, in my opinion. Both men and women looked amazing.
So beautiful and magical ❤️
I love watching you put together these wonderful outfits and the explanations of the items. Is it your husband who takes the still shots? They are really exceptional.
Yes- he is indeed the Timelight Photographic
I would LOVE to attend a ball in England someday and dress like this. Is there a vacation spot somewhere in England to do this?
Lovely!
would you consider doing a reaction video of period movies? I'm always curious how accurate Hollywood gets their costumes.
Other people do it here. I don’t way k them much plus it is only my opinion, prefer posting more educational content
Bernadette Banner has some of these
Love! The chemise with all that lace, if not for modesty it would be very hard to put anything over it, so pretty.
Absolutely beautiful!
Very beautiful, you are an artist !!!
Wow! Fascinating!
Lovely dress love the lace
The dress is gorgeous ❤ I wish I could wear it. I wonder if there are any festival in England or USA where you can go dressed like this?
Will be wearing in for work next weekend!
I don't know about Europe, but there are renaissance fairs all over the US.
Mitica come sempre
Perfect as always ❤
It was hard to understand what you're saying cause of the room.. but the dress is beautiful!
Put the caps on then
I didn't notice it had captions. That's excellent :) especially for someone who is still learning English. I learn so many new words with these videos.
@@priorattire it's the echo in the room. Didn't think of caps.
@@priorattirefor god sakes! Invest in a directional microphone!
Poor audio quality detracts from the historical presentation.
It gives an unfortunate impression of amateurish carelessness.
Blithely suggesting to use CC is not a professional solution.
What if you were pregnant? Would the wooden busk be removed or would a shorter version be used to still give the stiffness but allow for baby bump?
Yes, you adapt
the stays just are laced more loosely at the bottom to make room for the baby bump. The bodice is still shaped the same and the bones and busk still are in place. Google That Would Be Enough from Hamilton or The Great pregnancy to see examples of pregnancy in stays. (The Great is a bit better because it shows the actor in just the stays and maternity stays, at that (side-lacing), but Hamilton is a bit more historically accurate to this era since The Great's costumes are sometimes a little fantastical.)
Its not a whole lot different than a Vivienne Westwood couture gown... In fact, without the lace and chemise, with a single color of taffeta used for the entire thing, it really is the same thing pretty much. The mid 17th century is my absolute favorite. I particularly like the 'posing gowns' in portraits...that actually weren't real, apparently. Just an artistic I guess the 17th century version of a glamour shot ala the 1980s lol
She was likely inspired by the era. Fashion is cyclical and inspiration of different elements come from history often
Sweet and beautiful dress😊
I wonder how much of this outfit was originally designed as interchangeable, for instance that beautiful silk brocade underskirt clearly matches the rest, but how many underskirts would a wealthy woman own at the time & did they try to make things interchangeable? The girls in my high school assessed wealth by how many new dresses one had to wear. (sadly i only had 3 new simple dresses per year myself & whatever else was hand-me-downs & was teased a lot for it.) I wonder if it was the same in the 1680's ?
I would imagine so. They would give cast offs to servants as gifts, plus nice fabric. They could either give away old ones or have them re-cut into the new silhouette. The difference was servants/middle class had to alter/sew their own
Ours were hand made by my gifted mum out of the rest of the families old curtain material.
Very nice dress
Omg that outfit looks so pretty and cute
very pretty ❤🏴
I’ve always been a Tom boy but my secret passion was fashion.
a fellow tomboy here
Adorei esse vestido ❤
Have yu consider to use a tie-micro or headset? The resonance is sometimes quite painful, even at very low volume level, depend of the place you are filming. Very beautiful outfit, by the way!
Resonance is what you get when you film in historical places. So all authentic!
@@priorattire it might be "authentic" but it's also extremely hard to understand and listen to. Your great work deserves better! I suggest recording a separate voice track on a good stationary mike.
Lovely video, very instructive too! What are the differences between the 1680 English gown and the 1680 French gown? I'm making one soon and it is hard to find information. Hope your can answer this message!
It's beautiful.
beautiful
this is i nice dress the color is perfict
Your audio is often quite echoing. Maybe you could wear a mini mic or place a separate mic closer to you.
Room needs rugs! Something to absorb the sound.
@@amycastor2872 Historically inaccurate.
It's a shame for an on-going problem in all her videos.
Poor audio ruins the historical presention and gives the impression of amateur carelessness.
A better quality of a directional microphone would be an easy fix.
@@MayYourGodGoWithYou rugs wouldn't be inaccurate, especially for a courtly setting
Damn, looks like you’ve stepped out of a painting!!!
Beautiful dress :)
Beautiful ❤❤❤
I love watching your videos, but my hearing is going and the echoing in some.of the empty rooms makes it so hard to understand what you are saying. Which is sad, because you are so knowledgeable about all this and I would love to hear it lol. I got maybe every third word in this video, sadly. 😢
But I still love watching them. The work you are putting in those garmensmts is absolutely stunning.
Put the captions on!
@@priorattire thanks for that tip. I have the captions on. Most of us with hearing issues know about the captions and use them. And sometimes even the automated captions don't catch what people are saying, so we get to read "inaudible". Which is very helpful. But thanks for the flippant response. Really helped a lot.
@@sidewalkpirate23 If it says "inaudible" even us people with really good hearing can't understand I use CC because 1/2 the time I watch on mute. I happened to watch this with CC and volume and where it says inaudible, it's inaudible.
Also, there's nothing wrong with getting hearing aides. I use aides to tune the world out every single day (which is why YT is nearly always on mute.) Hearing aides help you hear; my aides help me NOT hear.
@@sidewalkpirate23 She does these videos in old buildingss with lousy acoustics and because she's literally getting dressed, a clip on mic doesn't work. This has been discussed a few times in other video comments. I think many of us who don't have hearing loss watch with the captions on for that reason. I just wish they weren't the automatically generated ones that don't always get the sewing or historical words right.
@@bunhelsingslegacy3549 I don't think you understand what lousy acoustics is. Lousy acoustics is being a room from the 1970s that has a short ceiling, paneled walls, popcorn ceilings and absorbs every single sound. As a singer, I LOATHED singing in these rooms for competitions. Sound dies the minute it leaves your mouth. I absolutely love a room like the one Izabella is in. Crowcombe Court, being a 18th Century home, was built in the English Regional Baroque style, and it's built to amplify sound (in other words, it's acoustic.) Yes, a bit harder to understand someone in a room that's not dead, but omg so heavenly to hear that a person could sing in it and not have to practically kill their lungs trying to project all that sound. Ugh, I really hate those dead rooms.
Beautiful 👏👏🐕💖♥️🥀
I prefer this period to any other and I realize I'm in the minority. Beautiful gown! 🥰
I'm a late antiquity person myself but I really like this period. Much more than 18th cent. Its so fun yet elegant.
@@blktauna Yes, so much more elegant than the 18th century! The 18th century went over the top with all of those bows, ruffles, and fussy details.
I have some other favorites, but this era is top-tier for me, too. It's a fun and kind of quirky (I mean that as a compliment ❤), like it doesn't take itself too seriously, as opposed to fashion a few generations later.
@@PurelyCoincidental Completely agree! 🌷
which lovely assistance in black and white, I can really understand the cats view resp. opinion about this great "Cloth" lying on the floor and making a very good noise "croush croush croush" one of my black cats, Vasgo , loves every piece of cloth in DIN A 4 size to put himself onto. I like this outfit better than the ones with more layers (or how do you call it if you are wearing so many levels like a "gateau de anniversaire". You did not sew it on your own, did you? is it too thick? I would really like to have one of those special repliques to wear it in our boring - like to be modern and future directed town of 21.000 habitants - on the streets doing shopping or waiting for the bus. ... What a wonderful ground you were on and is it always the same, no it is not! Thank you for such big pleasure you can wear all the dresses you would have been a recognized mannequin in former times, one more thank you for sharing that, greetings Crissy
Beautiful! Despite how busy you must be, it almost seems that you live in a fantasy, going to balls and such. 😊