However, my overall philosophy for making clothing for reenacting is,
stick with what I have pretty good knowledge was really worn, rather than the
maybes or the exceptions.
It isn't a philosophy that I could argue with too strongly, as it certainly
stops the fantasy input one can get, but I
I got tired of having to break character and pull the documentation
for those oddball examples out of my pocket.
I'm envious you get people interested enough to ask !
I have always done my own patters, more recently one can use Arnold and
similar, but those too are limited and often seem to
My favourites, where they exist, tend to be the
patterns in magazine of the time and from extant garments when you can get
access to them, ie not the ones everyone has done.
Yep.
But much of my recreation
started well before patterns (at the time) or before there were any kind of
commercial
Ah, you are correct, of course. There are so few extant examples that I
really shouldn't jump to conclusions. I had not seen the white one from
Vintage Textiles--it looks a little odd for the period--both the row of buttons
and the ribbon band--however, she is usually accurate in her
However, my overall philosophy for making clothing for reenacting is, stick
with what I have pretty good knowledge was really worn, rather than the
maybes or the exceptions.
It isn't a philosophy that I could argue with too strongly, as it certainly
stops the fantasy input one can get, but I
