Tudor / Elisabethan costumes

Project for Costume for performance – September / November 2016

Either Tudor dresses and Elisabethan really appeal to me this time and I couldn´t choose for one of them.

So, taking into account that Elisabeth I used to dress in both fashions along her life I decided to make both of them in half scale this time.

Also I am taking the challenge of making each corset for each fashion and outfit, so I can master the art of making period corsets.

Some imaginery that inspired me apart from the movie Elisabeth The golden age are

from Tudor times:

from Elisabethan fashions:

Here is my working process:

1. Bum roll

2. Armada pad for Jacobean style

3. Wheel and Spanish farthingales

4. Skirt and Kirtle

Corset- Tudor in  half scale

and Elizabethan made to my measurements

Now the ruffles and underproppers/ supportasses

Bodice and double sleeves

And voilá!