I am going to be making my husband an outfit for sca wear. I would like it to take after the Brueghel paintings, and at the end of the email I will list links to several of the paintings that I am refrencing.
Ok, first issue--I know, these works span a great length of time, but I think my question applies to all of them, and they show the leg coverings/hosen as being fairy consistant--of couse, this could be because the paintings in the ovre were ferequently copied, but I am not intrested in doing any more research into this then enough to make the costumes at this moment. So, here is the question. It is obvious that the hosen have points to tie them up to(I assume) the vest that seems fairly standard. It is also fairly ovious(looks at the harvester painting) that the pants stay up on their own. HOW??????? Secondary questions 1) It looks like these will show modern men's underpants...any ideas on how to work around my husband's fairly obssive need for them? should i make very lightweight linen shorts for underneith the pants? he also really likes, i mean, really, his modern athlic shoes.... He also has an adversion to any heavy fabric, and is pickty about colors, but well, he is willing to buy me as much fabric as I want for my garb, and does not complain about sewing/knitting/traveling expenses, so I think it he is worth dealing with :) 2) Anyone have some good web sources on this type/period for men? I have been making my garb out of the "Well Dress'd Peasant" by Drea Leed for several years, and since we have had a tragic accendent(his garb has gone tottaly missing, we can't find it, have looked everywhere, i swear, i did not lose it on purpose-found out two weeks ago when i wanted to do a survey of it to see whaty needed attention before summer sca seson started) I might as well do his stuff to be nice. I have Master Richard Wymarc's very nice handout that can be found http://www.wymarc.com/artifacts/artifacts.php, but am not finding much else. But my google-fu is not as great as it could be. 3) One of the Thanks for any time or info that comes back. *Summer*, 1570 Pieter van der Heyden after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, active by 1551, died 1569) Engraving; first state of two Source: Pieter van der Heyden after Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Summer (26.72.23) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art <http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/26.72.23#ixzz1KelyC2bv> http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/26.72.23 *Peasant Wedding Dance* 1607 Oil on panel Mus�es Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels http://www.wga.hu/art/b/bruegel/pieter_y/wedding.jpg *Peasants Making Merry outside a Tavern 'The Swan'* c. 1630 Oil on oak panel, 55 x 69 cm Private collection http://www.wga.hu/art/b/bruegel/pieter_y/peasants.jpg The Harvesters 1565 (180 Kb); Oil on wood, 118.1 x 160.7 cm (46 1/2 x 63 1/4 in); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bruegel/harvesters.jpg _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
