New "Josephine" historical clothing set

There's a new set of Covet Collection clothing pieces this week - this one is called "Josephine" and it's vaguely Renaissance-flavored. Last season there was a green one (called Giovanna) and I've seen at least one more that was pink.I'd say the pink one looked more Georgian, maybe - a bit later in time, that is - and the green Giovanna set was probably also Renaissance, I guess, but the style is not the same. (I'm interested in historical clothing styles but I'm no expert. Maybe I'll do some homework at some point and try to figure out what the differences mean a bit more exactly. At a guess, I'd say the green set is the style of a somewhat earlier time period. But I could be entirely wrong.)

The day this set was released the "daily" challenge was called The Girl From the Painting. I had already styled a look before I realized this new set had been released, but I went back and did it over as soon as I figured it out. I did check and Vermeer (the artist of "Girl with the Pearl Earring") was active in sort of the mid-17th century - I think Wikipedia said he died in the 1670s. That's my best guess right now about what era they were shooting for with this clothing set, but again, that may or may not be correct.

There are five pieces to the set (sold separately, you don't have to buy all of them):

1. robe - that's most of what you're seeing in the picture above
2. skirt - you can see it over on the right - red over the gold-trimmed white front
3. bodice - as you might imagine, fills in the section over the chest
4. overskirt - gold
5. ruff

(Note that the game requires that you wear either a dress or a top and a bottom piece, and it's sometimes very annoying about this requirement. The skirt counts as a bottom, but none of these pieces counts as a  top or a dress. So that's why that pink bikini top is there, because it tucks underneath, out of sight, and fulfills that requirement.)

The bodice in the picture above is not the one that goes with this set - again, you can see over on the right that it's actually the JosephineGiovanna one. The green on the sides doesn't show under the robe. The one that goes with the set is the same fabric as the skirt here, and I think it's slightly more boring to look at. I like the Josephine one better because the pattern is not exactly the same.

Also, note that this hairstyle is almost certainly all wrong for the period (it's called "Retro Red Carpet" so I think it's meant to be vaguely 1950s). But hair accessories are tied to certain hairstyles, and this particular crown is tied to this hairstyle - think Snow White. There is another version of this with an updo that I can use, but it's silver, and I felt like this bronze-y one matched much better. I swing back and forth between wanting to be historically correct and wanting a good score. I'm sure I'll end up talking more about that! Basically I don't think the average Covet player knows anything at all about what's historically correct, and they determine your vote, so insisting too much on the "correct" styles has a tendency to hurt your scores.

Here's another challenge a couple of days later where many of us used this same set - I did my look almost exactly the same as above, except the hair is blonder (and the shoes don't show at all so I don't worry much about what I use there)!

Later I bought this Renaissance-style hair accessory, and I also used the ruff and the overskirt for this one.

I notice that I used a different "undershirt" in each one of these. I think I just grabbed whatever I saw first that looked like it wouldn't show.