I've finally put all the pieces on. I'm up on the coffee table we use to mark the hem. This is my husband's least favorite thing to do for me. But he is very experienced at doing it by now.
I was hoping I had figured enough material to do the pleat around the bottom that you see in the Pisa Dress. Janet Arnold also documents this in her books. I have not figured out why they did this. Maybe to add weight to the skirt, so it hangs better. Or, that if the bottom wear, there is extra material to fix. Maybe The dress is made to a certain length, and if the wearer is shorter, they take it up this way.
I may put this question out to the Hive on Margo Anderson or the Elizabethan Costumers facebook site.
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