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12th Night Houppelandes

Houppelandes for Kit and I for 12th night. Lightweight wool lined with linen, trimmed with faux fur (as real fur set off allergies).

Rose Houppelande

My first houppelande! Lightweight heathered wool flannel, lined with heavy linen. Goals: dagged sleeves, stand-up collar, train, relatively conservative fabric volume through the torso.

Pretty Underwear: the German Hemd

The smock or shift worn under renaissance German clothing, whether Landsknecht or court, male or female, was called the hemd. There were three types of hemde worn with German garments, with slightly differing construction: high neck, round neck, and square neck. German women, in particular, rarely wore plain hemde. Instead, they preferred pretty underwear, linenContinueContinue reading “Pretty Underwear: the German Hemd”