Dear LPG, 

I bet that I am not the only lady of advancing years that finds getting up and ready to face the world in the mornings a bit of a chore, but there has always been something special about getting dressed for that big night out.  As I have got older, it seems to take longer and longer to get to that stage when I can look in the mirror and accept that the person who looks back looks good enough to face the outside world. But at least, after doing your hair and makeup (if you still do), the zips and Velcro that we do our clothes up with minimises the time that the getting dressed part of the process takes.

I have always thought that the gentlemen amongst us have a much easier task than we ladies because once we rid ourselves of that boring school uniform that becomes so familiar during the first fifteen or so years of our school day lives they still can get away with not having to wear something different every day.  

I have to say that I have always been a bit of a period drama fan when it comes to the films that I most like to watch, and I have always thought it would be nice to have dressed in some of the beautiful dresses that they used to wear a few centuries ago.  If I had been born back then, I would have preferred to be rich enough to have worn some of those long flowing dresses that we women of today only really put on every now and then and having a lady to help me get the look just right would have suited me right down to the ground too. 

That was until I saw the videos that I have asked LPG to share today.  Now that I have seen how much more complicated getting dressed was for a 16th century Elizabethan lady I think that I am quite lucky to have been born during the reign of the second queen with that name. 

TS, Lee 

TS offers us what she has found out about dressing for the 16th century…

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