Costume

One of my earliest interests when I joined the SCA was costume. I have played with various styles / eras but mostly with Burgundian (mid 15th century Western Europe), Elizabethan and more recently Viking.

Sigurd and me at Lochac winter coronation, July 2019
Dutch style silk taffeta loose gown worn over a black velvet kirtle with red velvet sleeves c1568.
Worn 2019.
Woman wearing a green Elizabethan style gown with golden sleeves and a black 'French hood'
Green and black shot taffeta ‘French gown’ with triple row of white velvet ribbon with laced in sleeves of slashed and aglet set cream & gold silk damask and forepart of the same.
Elizabethan men's outfit in beige and black worn by a woman in a feathered hat standing in front of a white tent
My man’s suit of beige velvet with black trim: black velvet hat, beige velvet ‘Dutch cloak’ lined with rabbit, velvet doublet and trunk hose, embroidered linen shirt.
Laurelling gown
Kirtle modelled on Elizabeth’s coronation portraits for my laurel elevation 2006.
Sixteenth century loose gown
Sixteenth century German loose gown, Hamilton gardens 2017
Loose kirtle
Loose kirtle modelled on extant German gown detailed in Patterns of Fashion.
Pink dress - no farthingale
My first ‘Elizabethan’ gown
Mi-parti silk cotehardie
Silk mi-partie cotehardie worn over a wool cote – 14th C.
Blue velvet houppelande
Houppelande c.1400
Red wool burgundian kirtle.
‘Burgundian’ 15th C style wool kirtle.
Red velvet German style gown.
‘Cranach’ style gown: German c.1515.
Grey velvet gown
One of my first ‘Burgundian’ v-neck gowns.
Canterbury Provincial Chambers c.1993.

Elizabethan

Dutch / Burgundian (mid 15th Century)

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