> My question, if you could use 3 books for this (these)
> eras, which would you buy?
I have to agree with Dawn- Janet Arnold's book has excellent photos, but it is
pretty limited in
terms of the outfits discussed in it. (that said, I was very pleased to get a
copy of it at
Christmas- it is an excellent reference book to have around)
Tudor Tailor is also a good book (I have it even though I've been concentrating
more on
Elizabethan clothing), although it's a bit too early for 'pirate' costumes.
I'm not an expert by any means, but I do have a couple of friends who have done
some research into
Elizabethan pirates, and from what I've heard from them (and read myself),
pirates didn't really
have a particular outfit- what we think of as pirate outfits is a
conglomeration of typical
clothing of the period with a good dose of fantasy tossed in.
If you can afford it (or find a copy to borrow), a good overview book of
clothing/items used by
sailors in the Elizabethan period is "Before the Mast: Life and Death aboard
the Mary Rose". It
does cover a lot more than just the clothing (it's only a section of it), but
it has some good
info on some of the clothing found during the excavations. It's also a bit
pricey- I picked mine
up at Pennsic for $100, though it was well worth the cost for me since most
publications deal with
the higher classes of society and this of course deals with sailors, most of
whom were not
wealthy. Also, for patterns, have you looked into
www.reconstructinghistory.com? They do carry
patterns for the Golden Age of Piracy- I've never looked into those particular
patterns, but I own
two of her Elizabethan ones (the Shinrone gown and Dungiven outfit), and they
were quite accurate
when I compared them to the research I had done on my own.
Jackie Wyatt
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