[Bryn-gwlad] Candlemas costume planning

[Sunny Briscoe]

The closest I have is a completely hand sewn outfit which will include when
I am finished a dress, sleeves, camicia (shift), cuffia (cap), mutande
(underpants), and hose (I can't remember the Italian word for those - darn
allergies are frying my brain).

All of the materials used in this outfit are reasonably close to period.
Wool for the dress, flax linen for the linings and undergarments, hemp linen
and cord for stiffening, and linen thread for sewing.  But, I bought it all
in a store and used modern dyes to dye the wool.

On top of that, I did not grow my own linen from reverse engineered flax
seeds, or raise my period breed of sheep with some period form of whatever
it was that sheep ate back then.  I didn't collect and process madder to dye
the fabric, or any of the other things that are required for the outfit.

Yes, I am being pedantic, but to make a point.  We can never have truly
authentic reproductions of period garments, because those things no longer
exist, or there is no data on what did exist, or no one person would have
done all of those steps, etc...  My outfit close to period in that I have
used period-like materials and put them together in a period like manner.
The degree of authenticity really depends on who is judging my outfit at any
given moment.

I don't normally completely hand-sew anything.  I just don't have the time
to devote to it.  I am trying to make all of my clothes so that there are no
visible machine stitches, that are cut in a period manner, and that all of
my cheats are as invisible as possible.

On 10/5/07, Patrick R <tex_yankee2004 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Just curious, can any of us say our clothing is truely period? I have no
> idea when sewing machines were invented and if they were around does anyone
> use what would have been period?
>
> Dante
>
> Be afraid when I am bored I am curious
>
> **
>
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