Last weekend,
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One fifteenth-century style involves a dress that is quite closely fitted through the bust and flares into a wide skirt. It often shows up on lower-class women, but not always.

In the September, February, and June images from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, the peasant woman in blue in the lower left is wearing a dress of this sort. ( ( Read more... )

I'm making a stack of lightweight linen undertunics for Pennsic, courtesy of the Elizabethan Smock Generator. The smock generator suggests that you use a facing for the neck hole, but I have a vague sense that this isn't a very medieval solution, due to the waste of fabric; I'm tempted to substitute a strip of linen. Will this be more trouble ( Read more... )

Since we've moved to a warmer clime, I have been wearing my red fifteenth-century dress without the black overgown more often. I have a hat to match the gown, but it isn't suitable for hot weather, so I have been looking at the veils worn by women of smaller means in France and Belgium in the fifteenth century.

The June image from Les Très ( Read more... )

I'm done substituting as a linear algebra instructor for the summer, and all I have left to worry about is the wedding & dissertation research and maybe the department's fall picnic, so of course I'm doing my level best to come up with unrelated projects.

I've been doing a little bit of research into c. 1320 clothing for glasseye. For some reason, the ( Read more... )

ornerie wrote:

I wanna see photos of the dress!!! :D

In fact, there were several layers of dress.

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I'm trying to make sleeves like the ones worn by the woman in the lower left-hand corner or the girl with an apron in the back of this painting ( Read more... )

From a fourteenth-century chronicle of England (quoted in Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince, emphasis added):

In this time Englishmen so much haunted and cleaved to the wodnes and folly of strangers that they change their clothing every year, especially since the coming of the Hainaulters years ago. Sometimes their clothes are long and wide ( Read more... )