If you search online, you'll find a site that has made these type leggings. I 
think it is in the Tudor Tailor book as well. The pants/leggins were woolen and 
shaped to fit snuggly. But I wondered if the tummy bulges helped or hindered 
the stay-up-ness of the leggins. I guess if you sweat, it could act as glue to 
keep them up.

Sincerely,
Rebecca Rautine



> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:13:49 -0400
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [h-cost] Men's Outfits in Brueghel
> 
> 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
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