What does the name mean?

A few years ago when I was finding images other than Ye Olde Cranach Gown I noticed something most portraits of German Renaissance Women had in common:
They all looked like they had far more important things to do than sit for a portrait. I liked the practical aspect to most of them. And that they had lives outside the portrait that they brought with them.
You can imagine most of them running their households and not with absolute calm.
In short they looked frazzled.
Frazzled and frau go together so nicely in terms of word play it was simply inevitable that I name the site The Frazzled Frau in honour of all those real women who took time out to have their portraits painted for various reasons.

So why create the site?

Because in my search for info on Ye Olde Cranach Gowns I came across so many wonderful different styles that many people may not have had a chance to find. I wanted to share these with others, especially people who liked Ye Olde Cranach Gown's but were perhaps after something a bit different.
Because of that I'm trying not to link to too many examples of the same style, unless they show interesting detail and may shed light on another portrait/painting.

But you've just got links

Yes I chose to link to images already on the web as oppose to scan many images from copywrited books. Yes the works of art are pre-copywrite, but the photos are not.
There is still a lot of work that goes into hunting down images. Many are purely by accident, others were linked by other people.
I also believe people should come to their own conclusions about how to create a style. Or even what they are seeing. There are some traps new people may fall into so I will be uploading some info about this: such as the wrap around apron that many (including myself at first) see as being a different coloured skirt.

When are you going to update?

I do actually frequently trawl the web for new images, and sometimes they happen faster than I can keep up. This creates a backlog of images. It can also be tricky trying to link to a site, especially a personal site, without infringing on the other site's rights.
I may have to alter some of the layout to accomodate these troublesome issues. Maybe use one or two demonstrative thumbnails and then have a text link to a main page with instructions on what to expect to find the images. This will have to be done for a few Museum sites, especially ones with zoomable images and more sophisticated web design.