Starting Calum's 1400-1410 Garb

[sbuchler]

For those of you who aren’t local SCA folks, Calum and I put our names in the hat to become the next Baron and Baroness of Cleftlands. We won’t actually know who’s selected until April, and the investiture will be April 14, so it behooves me to start on possible “stepping up” garb just in case. It feels incredibly presumptuous of me to do this, but

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[unclrashid]

Tasha's pattern will definitely help. But if you cant wait, I have had success patterning grand assiette sleeves in the following way

[sbuchler]

Thank you!! I'm going to have to try this method! :-D

[unclrashid]

PS... Hope you win, but not really wishing all the aggravation that goes with the post!

[sbuchler]

Awww, thanks! :-)

[operafantomet]

This is outside your preferred region, and maybe even decades, but I just wanted to point you towards the doublet (farsetto) of Pandolfo III Malatesta, from ca. 1427. It's not as long as the Charles du Blois one, and it has puffed upper sleeves. Here is a reconstruction

[sbuchler]

oooh, cool! I hadn't seen this doublet before! Thank you!!

[virginiadear]

"We won’t actually know who’s selected until April, and the investiture will be April 14, so it behooves me to start on possible “stepping up” garb just in case. It feels incredibly presumptuous of me to do this, but I’m not sure what other choice there is…"It isn't

[sbuchler]

Thank you - that makes me feel better :-)

[kass_rants]

I honestly have no idea what to call this layer

According to the 14th century dress lexicon developed by Traci Austin for her Doctoral thesis at the University of Nebraska, simply put, in Latin they called it a tunica, in French a cote and in English, a kirtle. English-speakers use all three terms interchangeably in the literature.

So... call it whatever you like! =)

[sbuchler]

Ah, the joys of the nebulous term "dress" ;-)

Speaking as a costumer rather then as a historian, I have issues with using tunica, just because it evokes the idea of an unfitted t-tunic in my head, and kirtle says woman's dress to me...neither of which are perfect historical usages but it's how the costuming community frequently talks ;-) Guess I'll go with cote! I like that spelling better then cotte anyway - it doesn't make my spell checker complain as much ;-)

[ursule]

The best thing about the word tunica is that then a surcote is a supertunica.

[sbuchler]

true!