A Brief Survey of Clothing

(our shire has a bunch of newcomers. I made this for them, and put it on the shire list. I'm parking it here so that

1. I'll have it for later, and

2. so y'all can add cool stuff that I might have missed

3. so it exists on the internet again.

I SWEAR that there used to be tons of "survey of costume" websites, but they are all dead. I needed this to give new people some idea of the RANGE of things that people in the SCA wear. I tried to pick all decent examples of roughly medieval looking clothes :)

SO, PLEASE correct me if I'm off, but remember, this is made for newcomers, so don't get too detailed! DO please send me links to people wearing the clothing of other possible personas!

Begin Survey of Costume:

Hi all!

We've had some questions about clothing, and what sort is acceptable for the SCA. As requested, I've put together links to some images of common personas/clothing for the SCA (there are plenty of totally SCA acceptable stuff not pictured here, like...Japanese, or Spanish or Greek, or...). Feel free to look around at other websites, there are LOTS of options out there. HOWEVER, please be aware that a lot of SCA clothing is only tangentially related to actual medieval clothing.

Our priorities are: 1. medieval 2. practical.

You need to camp in this, but remember, the overall PLAN is to look like a person from the middle ages. If you don't have medieval as one of your priorities, you could just wear jeans....

With that in mind, I have also included various links to images of clothing from the middle ages, so that you can look at what your realistically medieval options are.

Here are two of the largest collections of photos in our Kingdom:

http://www.blackberryhollowfarm.org/SCA/

http://talentus.smugmug.com/SCA

https://tempests.smugmug.com/SCA

So, VERY briefly, a history of clothing from romans to renaissance:

1. I have a tube! I will wear it! (peplos)

2. This tube needs sleeves

3. This tube would be WAY better if it was tighter in the top and only loose at the bottom (now arriving at tunic)

4. Lacing exist! Now I can make my tunic REALLY REALLY TIGHT

5. If I wear a few layers, my clothing can shape my body, instead of the other way around (cothardies between 4 and 5)

6. Ooooo, pleating. (also, a crotch seam for boys)

7. If I add stiff-things (like boning, busks, etc) the shape of my body can be GREATLY changed! Oh, wow, also, padding!

Okay, now on to images.

First, real, actual, medieval clothing!

tudor dress

http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/sca/tudor/

15th century women

http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/sca/15th/

work clothing

http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/sca/work/

cothardies

http://vieuxchamps.com/persona/wgarb2.php

http://vieuxchamps.com/persona/mgarb.php

mongols

http://www.croisbrigte.org/mongols/index.html

http://people.usd.edu/~socrean/arts/gunnas.htm

banks of images from 1400-1600

http://www.marquise.de/en/1500/index.shtml

late period women cooking

http://www.lepg.org/gallery.htm

italian ren

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQCXevAOCYnEdXRNyKIiSKHK0LIEr5W7-VqRQ8mgDN6O-tiGNCp

http://www.alanjoanhere.com/images/2009%20Italy/2009_Italy_FlorenceGhirlandaio1.jpg

And now, SCA people wearing clothing of various time periods. These are in only VERY vaguely chronological order, because there are multiple fashions going on at once, and also across great time spans.

Sythian

http://images.blackberryhollowfarm.org/2009/2009-01_12th_Night/Coronation/picture-01757.jpg

female peplos (roman/celtic/etc)

http://images.blackberryhollowfarm.org/2008/2008-09_Crown/People/picture-00762.jpg

http://images.blackberryhollowfarm.org/2006/2006-09-Crown/SatProcession/main/101-hc8u8898_std.jpg

http://genvieve.net/sca/roman.html

http://www.sablegreyhound.com/Roman.html

http://www.nicolecadet.com/images/AngloSaxonNic.jpg

Anglo-Saxon

http://www.regia.org/people/ulfbert.htm

http://images.blackberryhollowfarm.org/2008/2008-09_Crown/Procession/picture-01641.jpg

http://www.regia.org/village/village.htm