

Across the Courts of Europe: A Clue to the Palmwood Dress
Fashion has always crossed social and geographical boundaries, passing from wealthy women to those of more modest means and from one social circle to the next. Across Europe, aristocratic women enthusiastically exchanged ideas. Styles also travelled through pattern books, drawings, paintings and fashionably dressed dolls. A court dress? It has long been my theory, and you may disagree, that the Palmwood silk dress was a court dress from the very early seventeenth century. I i

Jan Sayer
4 days ago


Buttonholes
I am very fond of buttonholes, or knoopsgaten in Dutch. It is not a fashionable enthusiasm, but it is a useful one.

Jan Sayer
Sep 15

