Garb! Garb!

[ladyaneira]

I am finally making myself some new garb, and I must say I'm quite proud of myself. I made fabric-covered buttons for the first time, I'm flat-felling the seams, and by golly it looks nice. It's an earlier style than I ususally wear (think Manesse Codex) with button sleeves from elbow to wrist.

I'm curious about outerwear, however. In this image

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[vikingsparrow]

This is the class that I'm teaching at University. I've looked at all the women's garb in this document extensively. greta_k is correct. The cape and the sleeveless dress are not attached. It seems to be period fashion to make different garments out of the same fabric and wear them together. There are lots of images of this in the Codex. Today I'm actually making the sleeveless surcoat test garment for my class, though I'm not implementing the gold collar. I'm not sure what to say about the gold collar. There are a lot of them in the codex but that's the *only* place I've seen such a fashion, which leads me to believe that it's an affected construct for that document alone. There is a woman who made one exactly as it shows in the codex, with slightly gathered fabric hanging from a cloth of gold collar. So, it can be done. But it looks a little cartoonish. (Alas, I've lost the link.) I've also read a rumor that textile historians think all the gold collars that are seen in the codex are really scribal shorthand for "magnificent embroidery goes here." But I've never seen an example of what that magnificent embroidery might be. I know that's not much of an answer, but that's what I can offer.