Question for SCA Ladies

[affreca]

What is your favorite basic dress pattern? I'm looking for something that is somewhat fitted, but not as much as a cotehardie.

Comments

[lisichance.livejournal.com]

Good question! All my dresses that aren't cotehardies are T-tunics because they're my war garb and I'm lazy. I know I've done a couple others, I'll try to find them and figure out what they are.

[affreca.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Could you bring them to sewing night on Tuesday?

[silk-noir.livejournal.com]

Bliauts rock--but they are pretty fitted. Are you talking about something to go underneath the Viking apron?

[affreca.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking of something under the apron or worn alone. I'd like it to be more than a basic fold over T-tunic. I've tried a couple of variations, and I'm looking for what else is done.

[silk-noir.livejournal.com]

This looks like a pain in the patootie:

http://www.forest.gen.nz/Medieval/articles/Tunics/TUNICS.HTML

You might try looking at 13th century garb, or pre-bliaut 11th-12th century stuff.

http://web.comhem.se/~u31138198/1130.html

http://web.comhem.se/~u31138198/redcotte.html

This is very long: http://gersey.tripod.com/history/tunic.html

Not period construction, but quick & dirty, which is what Lilies is: http://www.reddawn.net/costume/tunic.htm

[affreca.livejournal.com]

Thanks. What I was looking for.