Some pages giving advice on Renaissance historical costuming--like one of
Kimiko's pages on costume myths (
http://www.kimiko1.com/research-16th/CostumeMythsWS/myth04.html )--take great
pains to show that Renaissance breeches were worn on the waist rather than
slung low on the hips. Of course I'm convinced because I've never seen an
actual historical example or illustration of a "sagging" fit, not to mention
that I (perhaps rather unusually for men in their twenties) always wear my
modern trousers on the waist. But now I'm curious about how the wrong "sagging"
fit would look on reproductions of Renaissance breeches, because I've never
seen it in person either; so can anybody refer me to a photograph or
illustration that shows such a fit?
Thanks beforehand for any answers--or none. I know it's not exactly the kind of
thing that a good costumer would like to document.
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