[Ansteorra] easy clothes for Gulf War

[Coblaith Muimnech]

Willow de Wisp wrote:
> Many years ago Mistress Aurelian showed me how to drape an early  
> period Irish dress. You take a length of fabric and attach it at the  
> shoulders with pins and then belt it with a wide leather belt.

Cait O'Hara
> My persona is 850 CE Irish. So, I have lots of info on this as well.

If you have evidence that pinned, unseamed garments were in use in  
Ireland in the late ninth century, I'd really appreciate a chance to  
see it.  That's the beginning of my period, and I'm always looking to  
learn more about it.

The latest peplos-like dress of which I'm aware so far is the tube  
dress found in Huldremose Bog, in Jutland (Denmark).  It was recovered  
near the site from which Huldremose Woman was taken and is generally  
assumed to have been buried with her, sometime between the late 2nd and  
early 4th century C.E.  ("Archaeology" has put a photo of the dress  
online, at  
<http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/bog/jpegs/ 
huldremose2.jpeg>, and the website for the Tolland Man project has  
photos of women wearing reconstructions of it, as well as of the woolen  
skirt and two skin capes found with the body  
<http://www.tollundman.dk/toej.asp>.)  Of course, it isn't made up of a  
rectangle of fabric, but of a tube woven in the round.


Coblaith Muimnech
Barony of Bryn Gwlad
Kingdom of Ansteorra
<mailto:Coblaith at sbcglobal.net>