The Spanish Princess

Ecco, questo sarebbe ideale xD !

Luckily, I pinged some early 16th-century experts — Kate Newton aka Beatriz Aluares, who knows her Spanish costuming and weighed in on 1492; Stefanie Pursell; and Kimiko Small, who knows a ton about English costume of this era — and they talked me down off the ledge. Apparently the costume designers WEREN’T totally smoking crack, and they helped me find period sources for much of these ensembles.

First, let’s talk The Wedding Dress. According to Ruth Mathilda Anderson’s Hispanic Costume 1480-1530, Catherine WAS dressed in Spanish style clothing for her wedding, and specifically wore white, as did Arthur:

“For the marriage ceremony… both bride and bridegroom wore white satin. Certain details of Catherine’s dress marked ‘the straunge dyvrsitie of rayement of the countreth of HIspayne.’ Her coif or rather veil on that day, of white silk bordered with an inch-and-a-half band of gold, pearls, and precious stones, covered much of her face and also of her body down to the waistline: ‘her gowne very large, bothe the slevys and also the body, with many plights, moch litche unto menys clothyng: And after the same forme the remnnt of the ladies of Hispayne were arayed.’ Their skirts carried hoops in the Spanish style” (Ruth Mathilda Anderson, Hispanic Costume 1480-1530, 1979, pg. 143).

A me ricorda gli abiti di Myrcela Baratheon in Game of Thrones durante la parentesi dorniana.