Alianore (my squire) and I are more than halfway done with her new kirtle! I'm loaning her a shift for the time being until she makes hers out of a lovely cotton lawn we picked up at Hancock's today.
Alianore's persona's time period is 1465-1485, so she can enjoy the Burgundian styles. We're basing her outfit off of these portraits:
http://www.wga.hu/art/m/memling/3mature3/25more3.jpghttp://www.wga.hu/art/m/memling/2middle1/07noporw.jpghttp://www.wga.hu/art/m/memling/1early1/04noport.jpghttp://www.uvm.edu/~hag/sca/15th/nikulin-innocents-det1.jpg The last one is what we have in mind for the kirtle style. The kirtle is being made and self lined out of hunter green cotton, and we scored the aforementioned cotton lawn and a really reasonable grey wool blend from Hancock's as well. Since at least one of the portraits has a collar and cuff trim of fur or velvet other than black or white, Alianore and I decided to trim her Burgundian overgown in olive green microsuede. Yes, it's dead dinosaur, I know, but it's a start. We decided that we would wait until we had money to dive right in to Court garb.
I also received inspiration for a new outfit suitable for Twelfth Night -- a Venetian outfit. Yeah, I'm gonna jump on the bandwagon...Inspiration came in the form of mauve-y pink duchess satin (polyester, but oh well...). I've always liked this portrait:
http://homepage.mac.com/festive_attyre/research/secondflor/secflor25.html I want to make this outfit. Badly. Yeah, I know, my persona's Anglo-Irish from 1500, but...I'm experiencing period drift, apparently.
But that won't be made until I have at least my transitional kirtle done. I hope.
Oh yeah, and Alianore's coming with me to Chicago!
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