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As a German re-enactor, I have been fascinated by the housebook/Dürer dress for years (also called the stehfaltenkleid in Germany). It’s such an odd evolutionary branch of women’s clothing. Dresses went from Swabian dress and, during the same time frame, the houppelande, to the brief, transitional housebook dress, and then morphed into the more structured,ContinueContinue reading “Quest for the Housebook Dress”