Bella Lucia da Verona

This beautiful gown was inspired by Venetian styles from the 1520's. You can read a nice description of the construction on this page, and you can see some more lovely pictures here. Bella has put together an really wonderful website about 16th century Venetian costume with extensive images galleries and info about these styles. If you haven't been by there lately, you should really check out her expanding Realm of Venus--it is such a fabulous resource!