Color: Rubin Red
Miss America 2014, Nina Davuluri
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And the puff sleeves of the 1530s line up more directly with their audience's modern mental image of "pretty, pretty princesses." To my 21st century eye, some historically accurate Italian Renaissance fashions look simply ridiculous, like cod pieces (comically enlarged jock straps worn on the outside, sometimes used as coin purses), balzos (1530s ladies' turban thingies made of false hair, jewels, fabric, stuffing, broken dreams due to strict gender roles, and possibly helium), and zibellinis (what looks like a dead ferret with a bejeweled face attached on the end of a long decorative belt called a girdle, intended to distract fleas who weren't buying it, and apparently to creep people out in future generations)
At this stage, most women want a look that reflects confidence and grace without feeling overly formal or outdated
I get a kick out of how quickly this article claims sewing projects went together ;) But when you didnt have other patterns to compare them to- or if you did they were just simple drawings with measures in a book, a paper sewing pattern must have been the ultimate luxury!
