[Sca-cooks] OT-Med Tailor's Assistant

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Also sprach Stefan li Rous:

>Specifically, I'd like to get away from my generic T-tunics and
>closer to an 12th C Anglo-Norman look.

A common sentiment. On the other hand, since what 12th-century
Anglo-Normans actually wore seems largely to have been variations on
the T-tunic, we need to establish a distinction between identifying
cultures that did not wear such tunics and merely sneering at them
because some people consider them beneath the notice of some SCA
costumers. No, Stefan, I'm not accusing you of this, but it's a
common misperception that no skill is required to make a good
T-tunic, therefore any decent costumer shows their stuff by doing
late-period.

I wear dalmaticas and coptic shirts most of the time, and they can
get pretty complex from a tailoring standpoint. A T-tunic with, say,
circular, bias-cut, French-seamed gussets in the armpits is nothing
to sneeze at, if that's what your culture actually wore. A common
Anglo-Norman garment for men might well fall into the category of a
T-tunic with gussets in the armpits and gores in the skirt and
neckline; not all that much simpler to do than a lot of later-period
stuff.

Unless you define a T-tunic as not having any additional tailoring
done to it... or is that what makes them generic ;-) ?

Adamantius