Nothing historical. Just a Red Riding Hood cape-like thing--not quite a cape
because it's basically a very full sleeveless body with a pair of
quarter-circle wings draped over the places where the sleeves would normally
be. With a hood.
OK, maybe not really nothing historical, since I've just
Still in relation to the research on early Indonesian post-independence
fashion, I'm just starting to notice on contemporary photographs from 1945-1955
that many men who wore suits or sport coats without ties often wore their
unbuttoned shirt collars _outside_ the coat (i.e. on top of the
I'm about to make the kind of 14th-15th century dress that usually comes up in
discussions as the 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
This isn't really a costume thing, but since there are many Victorian and
Edwardian enthusiasts in this list, I think I should post a link to this
recently-released DVD documentary about the turn-of-the-century martial art:
http://www.freelanceacademypress.com/bartitsu.aspx
At least it could
In response to the question put up in tangential response to my question:
ironically, I had to research the subject of late 19th-century Austrian
uniforms for a steampunk project (a lot less serious than this one), and these
are the online sources I used:
Can anybody recommend fairly comprehensive sources for the more formal kinds of
uniforms worn in the German military services during the two World Wars and the
intervening period? I'm mostly looking for information on walking-out dress and
the German equivalents--if any--of Anglo-American mess
Hello Tiberius,
Thank you for looking at my site.
Hmm...isn't that a bit upside-down? I'm the one who should thank you for having
made such a great site in the first place
I am not quite sure I understand
your question. Are you looking for photos of modern men wearing sagging
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
