Costuming

Walk in their shoes, so to speak!

To pursue the interest area of costuming in the SCA, there is really only one requirement: an attempt at pre-17th century clothing.

There are many times and places from which to choose when creating costume clothing, or as it is also referred to as, garb. If you want to dig deeper into this stylish pursuit, there are as many areas to dig into as there were styles worn in the past. The replication of historic clothing to a high degree of historic accuracy is an area of passion held by many costumers.

Where to learn more?

If you'd like to get some ideas, find Mistress Marsali in our Barony who has knowledge about this area of interest.

Also, here are some links:

Costuming http://www.costume.meridies.org/

Interest Group - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-Garb

Discussion Page - https://www.facebook.com/groups/455573004507971/

More information - http://www.scademo.com/demo.garb.php

Costume and Culture in Late Renaissance Italy -- https://www.facebook.com/groups/184811848294350/

Elizabethan Costume http://www.facebook.com/groups/29374273995/

Period Costuming Support Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/115772321856450/

SCA Garb http://www.facebook.com/groups/scagarb/

A group for discussion of researching and making all types of garb for the SCA

SCA Runway https://www.facebook.com/groups/460750480615188/?ref=ts&fref=tsA

Garb - Getting Started (Shows you who wore what, when!)

http://www.scacommunity.com/blog/garb/138-garb-getting-started-part-i.html

Another one, up to plate #50 - http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/TEXT_INDEX2.HTML

Perhaps you would also find interest in the area of studying or creating millinery, or headcoverings. A place to find lots of related informational links on this area of costuming -- http://www.scatoday.net/node/1263

Costuming or Headcoverings Questions -- see the files section in the Artisans Collaboration of Meridies facebook group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/314196732021880/files/

A collection of related emails -- http://www.florilegium.org/files/CLOTHING/idxclothing.html

Online book - Fashions of the Hapsburg Era: Austria-Hungary

http://www.metmuseum.org/research/metpublications/Fashions_of_the_Hapsburg_Era_Austria_Hungary?Tag=&title=&author=&pt=&tc=&dept=

Online book - History of Russian Costume from the Eleventh to the Twentieth Century

http://www.metmuseum.org/research/metpublications/History_of_Russian_Costume_from_the_Eleventh_to_the_Twentieth_Century?Tag=russian&title=&author=&pt=0&tc=0&dept=0

Women's Headgear in the 14th Century http://maniacalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/on-yer-heade-part-iii-womens-headgear-in-the14th-century/