Anyway, these are at Hampton Court Palace (as in the last few posts)
These are called Marquette and are full scale mock ups of period costume made from paper, so that the dressmakers can see the style, the way the fabric hangs etc before they commit to cutting the fabric. Modern ones are make from a plasticised paper and are just beautiful.
They include men's and women's models. The two ladies below (seen as foreign royalty by the British natives of the time) were unkindly nicknamed the maypole and the elephant for their difference in stature.
And here at the palace is a room where the decor is entirely formed from collages of weaponry...
muskets (I'm guessing but am happy to be corrected) and daggers and swords
and yet more weapons in picturesque form
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