I spent the past week designing and digitizing a 18th century inspired embroidery motif based on orange trees and blossoms. I’ve been vibing with citrus lately and thought they would be stunning on a pocket. I’m absolutely in love with how they came out, they’re so bright and fun. In order to elevate the design a bit, I decided to embroider it on ivory silk duchesse satin (which was a bit nerve-wracking) instead of the cotton linen fabric that I used for my previous pocket and it came out so pretty. The sheen of the satin creates such a lovely backdrop for the oranges.

Where to find a decent pattern for gigot sleeve?

The first image is from The Medieval Tailor’s assistant, and the next two are from Handcrafted History (https://handcraftedhistory.blog/2021/06/30/the-ultimate-cloak-guide/amp/).

The neckline is either a half-circle, like in the first two pictures, or pushed back to form a full circle. What will that choice change, and which design should I pick?

I love the history/fantasy costume and clothing community. Bernadette banner, Rachel Masky, Kaz, Pocket full of poseys, ect. Ect.

But man I’m jealous sometimes. Ive been filming myself sewing and there just is just so much to do and when i order custom items it takes a lot of time. Like i would like to wear historical skirts full time but doing them all and getting fabric i like and having the skills to do these things just is so much.

And i learned at the hands of my great grandma a historical interpreter and have a pretty strong foundation of knowledge. I know Im very privileged when it comes to my start. Its just when i see their closets or their orders that they have shipped in I just wish i was there. Im still so at the beginning of my closet change a tear in a skirt means no more historical dress. (Can you guess what happened recently? 😭)

I dont know anyone else who lives like this or wants to wear clothes like this, but how do you keep working through it when the goal is to have a homemade wardrobe and that seems so far away and expensive?

Obviously i love them all and aspire to a life like that but it just seems so far off. And i cant wait to be where they are. How do you keep Modivation up when you feel so far from your goal?

I've just finished 'The New Look' on Apple TV, and though it's a nice series, I'm quite disappointed that there was very very little about what Chanel and Dior (two main characters) actually did and how they did it and why it was so popular.

Maybe there are some decent docuseries/docudramas about costumes and fashion?
I'm mostly interested in the period from the 1850s to the 1950s

The original content is made by 亚历克山大, a Hanfu creator on Xiaohongshu (Red Note). I did my best to subtitle this video, but ran into some difficulties since many of the clothing items are proper nouns for which there is no English equivalent. For example, Dou, Li, Jin, and Mao refer to different types of headgear, but all translate into hat. This is why I kept some of the romanization, because calling them bonnets or caps can be misleading. Let me know if there’s any outfit or topic you’d like to know more about. This video focuses on Han ethnic dress, and a common misconception is that everyone dressed the same. Non-Han Chinese ethnicities and kingdoms had their own dress customs. I can do a follow up on those as well

I'm trying to get this done fast for a trip soon, but I also want pockets on both sides. I'm curious if they stop the skirt from opening up fully to get on or off, and I can't find any pictures of it with the inside/pockets showing how it goes on or off. There's very few people who have showed any pictures at all of this pattern, and everyone who has is wonderful and very talented!

I’ll preface this by saying I realise these patterns are likely to be fairly vague in their inspiration and I know we don’t come to Butterick for spot-on accuracy! But I just finished sewing view A and it’s a decent later 18th century silhouette, and as I found it easy to follow, I thought I’d try making one of the others (in part since I’m broke and can’t afford to buy new patterns for the time being, haha).

I’m in the process of putting together a mockup of D and it seems quite short (ie from top to bottom), at least in terms of how I understand most mid-to-late 19th c corsets to look—although it takes a standard 30cm busk—so I’m curious: what would the real-world equivalent be? Would love to see some inspo images!

So. I am planning on going to medeltids veckan (medieval week) in Visby Sweden. They are having a water theme and will have a specific pirate camp ground. I desperately want to be a pirate the whole week. Im planning on making some slops. But you are supposed to have clothes under that and i am kinda stumped for what to do. Shirts will be easy enough, its trousers/britches that is the big problem for me.

I'm fat and have thick thighs and wide hips i haven't found any patterns online that could fit for me so i am starting to think that i might need to draft my own pattern to fit me but that just feels so exhausting? As well as the fact that i just don't really know how to do that.

The outfits you wear there doesn't have to actually be historically accurate, but i would love to at least have one mostly historically accurate full outfit. I just dont know where to begin. Ive read about the clothing pirates/privateers and sailors wore during the golden age of piracy. I have a general idea of how it is set up and stuff but finding patterns that would fit for my body feels damn near impossible. If you have any ideas/tips or can point me in a direction for what to search for. I would be super greatful. Thank you for reading. I aprechiate it.

Tldr: please give me tips on how i can make myself some pirate britches even though im fat.

Currently deciding between the first (vertical slashes, center open doublet) and the second (top shoulder open doublet). For sure, the second would be easier, but I do really like the collar design from the back. I might also prefer the star design.

A Vietnamese reconstruction group Hoá Niên reconstructed the cross-collared robe of aristocratic women during the Restored Later Lê dynasty of pre-colonial Vietnam.

The whole fit is based on a Restored Later Lê painting, and her yếm (the round-collared undergarment) is based on another painting of the same time period.

Pictures do not belong to me.

Original creator: https://www.facebook.com/share/15YgKtjmd7/

Hello. I was looking at buying South Union Mills linen trousers, however I have 2 questions about them. First, what is the difference between the normal trouser with the linen fabric selected, and the specific "excelsior linen trouser?" There is a marked price increase between the two, so I was wondering if I am allowed to just order the standard trousers in linen. Next, for the linen in the excelsior trousers, it is said to be "natural" colored, a sand sort of tone. I was wondering if I could specify that I want bleached white linen in customer comments, or if natural is the only color available.

I would not normally be asking these questions of a subreddit, but I have both emailed and called South Union Mills, and not heard back for nearly 2 weeks. Any insight would be appreciated!

This video covers a broad swathe of time, but gives some idea of the development of fashions over roughly 2500 years. Some of the dynasties and periods missing are Eastern Zhou, Qin, Western Han, Xin Mang, Eastern Han, Sima Jin, War of Eight Princes, Three Kingdoms, several of the Northern and Southern Kingdoms, Sui, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Northern Song, Jin, Liao, and Yuan

There’s also a weakness of using the dynastic model for fashion, which is that it doesn’t account for time perfectly. Some dynasties span half a millennium and other periods only cover a couple decades or so. There’s a greater difference between fashions at the start and end of the Tang dynasty than there is between Song and Yuan, just as an example.

I do not own the original content. Watermark can be found on the lower left of the video and the account on Xiaohongshu (Red Note). If you choose to repost, please retain the watermark and credits. All I did was edit the video and add English subtitles

Hey, I'm currently in the brainstorming phase of working on my vaguely Edwardian inspired wedding dress. I want the skirt to have about the same drape and silhouette as this 1905 dress, but I'm not sure what kind of pattern to use for this because most Edwardian skirt patterns are flat in the front, not gathered. I'm doing to be making several changes to it bc this is only Edwardian inspired, not reconstruction, but I know I shouldn't jsut use a circle skirt when it's gonna be longer and fuller in the back. Anywhere I could look for patterns?

As I understand it, pockets came out around the mid 1600s. Is there any good resource that could discuss the depth of pockets? Thanks

Since I've recently finished the undergarment for a late 15th century southern to middle german costume, I wanted to give an update. Everything for progressing forward has arrived, silkfabric and felt blanks for the hat and the silk is also for the brusttuch, green and red tuch for the Wams and Hosen, blue and yellow tuch for the Schecke. The nice long white heron feathers were especialy hard to come by.

Hi! Update on this historical dance costume, and looking for advice. Things are coming along. Construction of the bodice is mostly done. I'm planning to overlock the edges of the tabs that will be under the skirt instead of binding them, but my good sewing machine had to go the the sewing machine hospital so I've had to move on to doing more of the finishing stuff that I'll do by hand.

The sleeves are attached! They're not quite as poofy as I'd like, but I was working with limited fabric. They'll have ribbons at each of the spots where they're tacked so they won't hang quite so weird then.

Looking for advice on trim: The dark green overskirt seems too heavy colorwise, so I'm going to do some trim at the bottom of the skirt (proof of concept roughly pinned on in photo). I'd also like to bring some of that green up to the bodice, but I'm not sure how to do it. Does anyone have any ideas or inspiration?

Also open to advice on how to get that green skirt caught up in a more attractive way. I've never done anything like that and am totally winging it, with mixed results...

She looks like a frumpy mess because she doesn't fit on the dummy at all 😭 I promise it doesn't look QUITE this much like a heap of fabric in the corner IRL, but it's enough to make me scared about my ability to trim this out in ways that don't look really amateurish.

Appreciate any suggestions and/or affirmations. I think I'm firmly in the doldrums of this project...

I'm trying to figure out what women on the countryside (who were actually doing manual labour) were wearing - mainly from the austrian/ german/ swiss region but any european country would help. Anything from like 1700 to 1900s I guess? I think farmers attire didn't change much.

I found a lot of information to regional Tracht and Dirndl styles - but none of them look fit for working - mainly for going to church in. Any help would be appreciated!

it's a wide range of historically inspired and pretty bang on for the era, but the ones that are more accurate are delicious. head's up, the language and visuals are probably rated PG, might not want to watch in a workplace setting but there's no nudity.

https://youtu.be/IrEFKJnl1H8

Hi All,

I am still on the newer side of sewing. I know I may be being a bit ambitious with this but hoping to find a pattern for a Victorian walking suit. Are there any you would recommend that are on the easier side /more user friendly side? It does not need to be an original to the Victorian time. Happy to have a Simplicity or other pattern to try.

Thank you for the help!

Given: bodice front pieces, cotton batiste overlay. Aiming for anything similar to the inspiration pictures (photos 2-4)