E House wrote:
Here's the plea: does anyone have any other ideas? and can anyone point me to some good visual sources for my ideas or theirs? For the moment, redrawings are fine--I just need some pics I can run by him that are sorta kinda close to something that actually existed, at least in spirit and general silhouette.
Hand him Braun & Scheider, or point him at the website (http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/history.html) and ask him what he likes.
You might also get him in touch with another SCA guy, so he can talk to someone who is enthusiastic about (or at least comfortable with ) the clothing. I've known a lot of guys afraid of looking silly, until the peer pressure convinced them that baby blue velvet pants with a satin lining and lace cuffs were cool.
And talk to him about fasteners. I found out *after* making my husband his first outfit that he absolutely hates period hooks and ties, so now we always do buttons and discrete elastics.
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