> "Gothic fitted dress" (after Robin Netherton, I believe), and the problem I'm
>facing is that the neckline
>
> for such dresses tend to be rather open. Now, the friend I'm making the dress
>for is a devout-but-
> moderate Muslim you'd normally see wearing a business suit (you know,
> tailored
>coat and trousers)
>
> and a headscarf, so she has no issues with the rather figure-hugging profile
> of
>the dress, but she
>
> needs a way to cover her bosom and her hair without making her look like a
>spinster when she wants
>
> to wear the dress outside her house. We're both convinced that there _is_ a
>way, but we're not sure
>
> which options would have been realistically used by the women back then. The
>first thing that came
>
> to our minds was a button-up hood like the London hood (as in this example:
> http://tinyurl.com/6kbvprq ), and if it's indeed a good option then most of
> our
>problems would
> just go away instantly. Still, we can't help wondering if there's also some
>other option available,
>
> such as covering the chest with a fichu (would the 18th-century style still
> be
>kosher _four_
>
> centuries earlier?) or partlet (which, after all, must have come from
>somewhere) when she's in the
>
> mood to wear the dress with a separate hat or to stick the hood on her head
> as
>a chaperon.
>
> So, any opinions? And thanks beforehand!
One of the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries in the V&A shows a lower class woman
in
a gothic fitted dress with a partlet tied on top of it. Circa 1430.
Best of luck!
-sunny> I'm about to make the kind of 14th-15th century dress that
usually comes up in discussions as the
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