#medieval fashion

[coutureducoeur]

Luisa Beccaria Fall 2016 Ready-to-Wear

[sartorialadventure]

A Viking era ring inscribed with the words 'for Allah', found in the grave of a woman who was buried 1200 years ago in Birka, 25 km west of modern-day Stockholm. The ring constitutes a unique material evidence of direct contact between the Vikings and the Abbasid Caliphate. (one of many sources!)

[archerinventive]

Happy Makers Monday!

Today I wanted to thank everyone who was able to visit the booth, and to all those who patiently waited for their online orders during faire. Your support is always greatly appreciated, and makes all the hard work well worth it. ❤️

For this Makers Monday I’m happy to announce that the shop is back open, and I will be taking custom orders again. :)

Wishing you all a wonderful week filled with magic and adventure. :)

https://www.etsy.com/shop/ArcherInventive

[chthonicpink]

Sir Lilia Vanrouge through the ages

... Well, more like Lilia Vanrouge in medieval era fashion lmao

Although if I remember correctly, first one is a bit more regency era, start of the 1800s 🤔 the rest of them ARE medieval though, down to the hair and everything ahahaha. These doodles were really fun, I still love that Lilia has an undercut in canon! He probably has had one for sooooo long

[thesadvampire]

Wake up babe new historical picrew just dropped

[dresshistorynerd]

An Introductory Timeline of Western Women's Fashion

I think a good place to start to get into dress history is general overview of the whole timeline. Understanding especially how the silhouettes change is really important ground knowledge to build the rest of the information on.

I'll start the timeline from Middle Ages and go till the first world war. I'll focus on upper class England/French sector, so keep in mind that before 17th century there were huge regional differences in fashion inside Europe and class differences too. There is a lot variance, changes and nuance inside any century and decade I'm about to discuss, but I'll try to keep this short and introductory and very simplified. I used a very scientific method of basically what makes most sense to me to divide the periods. I've made sketches what I would consider to be the basic silhouette of the period stripped mostly out of the detail and then I give couple of primary source examples.

12th century (Middle Ages)

Dress was simple one or more tunics over a chemise. They were overly long for upper classes, made out of straight lines. There were loose tunics often worn over another tunic, and tunics with laced bodice called biaut. In France bliaut sleeves often widened from the elbow, in England they often widened in frists.

13th century (Middle Ages)

Clothing was mostly very similar as in the previous century, though bliaut was mostly gone and new popular style was a loose sleeves surcoat.

14th century (Middle Ages)

Tailoring basically revolutionized clothing production, since clothes weren't made out of rectangles anymore and could be better made to fit form. Also functional buttons and lacing was popularized resulting in very fitted styles. The underlayer tunic, kirtle, became a fitted supporting layer.

15th century (Middle Ages)

Improvements in weaving technology and trade and growing prosperity in Europe showed in clothing as excess of fabric and variety of trends. Houppelande, a loose A-lined overdress lined with fur and fastened with a wide belt under chest, became a very popular clothing item, and in later decades developed into the iconic Burgundian dress (the red dress). Fitted overdress continued to be popular alongside the warmer houppelandes.

1500s-1550s (Tudor period)

In the renaissance era clothing became increasingly structured and elaborate. The bodice was heavily boned and the skirt was also structured.

1560s-1610s (Elizabethan Era)

Both structuring and elaborate decoration reach it's peak during Queen Elizabeth's reign. She became the defining fashion icon of the late renaissance.

1620s-1670s (Baroque)

In baroque era the bodice was still heavily structured, but more curved than the conical Elizabethan bodice. Otherwise though structuring was replaces with dramatic excess of fabric.

1680s-1710s (Baroque)

In the late 17th century there was a huge shift in the clothing industry as mantua, a loose open robe inspired by Japanese kimono, came to dominate fashion. Rigid bodice was replaces by structured under layer, stays. Stays brought back the conical silhouette of Elizabethan era.

1720s-1780s (Rococo)

Mantua developed into the iconic Rococo dress in France, robe à la francaise (first example picture), and in England robe à la anglaise with closed bodice. Rococo fashion was characterized by the wide silhouette of the skirt.

Since Tumblr won't accept more than 10 pictures per a post I'll have to continue in a reblog. So to be continued!

[ophanim-vesper]

FASHION HISTORIANS OF TUMBLR HEADS UP!!!!!!

What do you call this kind of sleeve

[emett-sidecast]

ELDRITCH KNIGHT YOU WERE DOOMED FROM THE START

[eve-to-adam]

It's a pleasure to see Isabel Neville in a colorful version. (I love this dress so much, btw.)

[aczamudio]

My main design for Lionelle, my genderbent Sir Lionel from Arthurian legend and one of the stars of the webcomic I’m planning to launch in the next year. She’s both a knight of the Round Table and a princess of France. Befitting her status, she has a rather extreme personality, which I hope shows through! I think I might take a break from uploading designs for a bit, but I’ve still got a little more of hers that I can share later. Yes, I did a lot. I couldn’t help myself. What do you think?

[laurellerual]

Fashionista Sir Gawain of Orkney, part 1/4

from “The Knight of the Two Swords”

[private-snafu]

[sartorialadventure]

[scottkeenanillustration]

Historical Disney Portraits: Aurora

The third Disney portrait I’ve been working on is Sleeping Beauty herself. This is probably one of the easiest Disney films to place in a time setting, it’s perfectly medieval accept for a few fantasy elements like some of the costume design. My two main inspirations for this illustration were ‘Les Trèa Riches Heures du Duc de Berry’ a medieval manuscript which heavily influenced the look of the film and the amazing work of Eyvind Earle who produced loads of work for the film. Aurora’s two toned dress was inspired by an image online I found of Marguerite de Rohan who I believe was the wife of John of Orleans, Count of Angouleme. I really couldn’t find much information about them but the painting was very helpful with the look. I was originally going to have her hair covered by a veil or something as I thought that would be more historically accurate however I was inspired to keep in down by many depictions of the Virgin Mary and a Flemish painting of saint Catherine. I am calling these “historical” versions of the characters but I am taking liberties with the accuracy so I’m sure someone can’t point something out if it’s not right.

Scott Keenan, 2021

[the-costume-closet]

Costume Design #270

[arwendeluhtiene]

✨🍃 Tolkien throwback - Elven variation of my 14th century cottehardie for a night of music and reading at the 2018 EstelCon, the annual convention of the Spanish Tolkien Society. With @tarmaerika as Bilbo ✨📚🍰 . Fun fact - This was the debut of this cotte, and at the end of the night I found out that it had ripped off completely at one shoulder, just by raising my arms 😱😅. Had it altered with historically accurate triangular gores at the shoulder afterwards, and now I can fully move my arms without it ripping, which is good 😅, but the shoulders have become baggier than I'd like because with this synthetic damask (which is gorgeous, but not flexible at all, compared to say, wool cottes) you can't have both 😅

My 14th century reenactment posts

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