Simplicity has four new patterns in their Early Summer book, 2 "Museum Curator" Civil War costumes for women, a virtual reprint of their old "Medieval Peasants" pictured in different colorways than the original and Elizabethan costume 3782.
I purchased the last and from the directions, the pics of the pattern pieces aren't that far off from Janet Arnold, Hunnisett's "Period Costume for Stage and Screen" and the "Tudor Tailor", especially for a "mass market" pattern. The main sleeves are even two-piece and curved to fit the arm, thus forcing the wearer to hold her arms at the correct angle. Personally, I rather like View B, which is a simpler gown and plan to first use the direction diagrams enlarged and the "Tudor Tailor" to try this out on my new 16" Ellowyne Wilde" doll. I am not good at drafting patterns from scratch, so I use something close(a pattern that fits me or the doll I'm dressing, the historically correct pattern, and go laborestly from there. Cindy Abel _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
