[Sca-cooks] OT, IP, T-Tunic oops

[AF Murphy]

Ah. Well, that diagram certainly explains why I don't know about it...
Whoever devised that hasn't the first clue about patterning or how
fabric behaves. I may actually have been guilty of something similar
about 14 years ago... and I inflicted it on someone else! But that's how
I discovered the wonders of gussets... my actor had to be able to move,
you see... I had mercifully blanked it from my mind, until I kept
looking at the diagram.

Did I mention I came to the SCA *through* an interest in historic costume?

But thank you - it is often helpful to know SCA history, if for no other
reason than to explain that we know more now. And after all, it took
time and effort to get here, that might not have been expended if people
hadn't been wearing this... and wondering about it... Similar to things
that I gather people cooked, and started wondering about...

Anne

Laura C. Minnick wrote:
>
>
> There is a variant of one in the Known World Handbook, IIRC- not that it is
> Holy Writ, of course, being basically a beginners guide...
>
> If your fabric is folded quarterly, to make an angel dress requires-
>
>    _________________
> __)                 |
> |                   |
> |        \          |
> |         \         |
> |          \        |
> |           \       |
> |            \      |
> |             \     |
> |              \    |
> |               \   |
> |                \  |
> |                 \ |
> |                  \|
> |___________________\
>
> so there is a neck opening, to very long side seams, and hemming. Ta-da!
> You have a badly-fitting dress that bunches in the armpits with sleeves
> that curl funny and get in the way, and that scream "NEWBIE!" from across
> the tourney field. Not to mention _NOT_ a period construction. And because
> it isn't period construction, the sleeve shape doesn't work, the body is
> proportionally too small, and you've still used a _lot_ of fabric.
>
> Now look at:
>
>    ______._____.____
> __)      :     :    |
> |        :_____:___/
> |        :/
> |        :
> |        :\
> |        : \
> |        :  \
> |        :   \
> |        :    \
> |________:_____\
>
> as an example. You end up with a shape that more readily can be fitted, is
> economical o fabric, and if a pieced extension on the sleeve or a longer
> hem is wanted, those changes can fairly easily be affected. Also- look at
> the piecings- (the : lines) you should be able to readily see the the
> sleeve pieceing and the skirt piecing were cut and turned to fall into
> place- if you put them back, you can reconstruct the whole cloth. There is
> very little waste.
>
> And the money you save san be spent of that really fine capon for dinner,
> right? (OFC ;-)
>
> 'Lainie
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