Make it work

[vanityfairy]

I've been meaning to make a 15th C french working class dress for several years, since first discovering it in the ambiguous line drawing in Thursfield's Medieval Tailor's Assistant. Shortsleeved and front-laced, it's not a pretty princess dress but it's very adjustable sizewise, it's great for outdoor events, can be dressed up warm with sleeves

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[fiofiorina]

Oddly enough I am also working on my blue 15th century dress (it's "WiP" since April or May 2011... ahem... at least moths don't like indigo-dyed wool too much. But I am now done with re-hemming all the skirt parts, and actually it's not that much more work left (attaching skirt to bodice, sleevil, hem and closure. But it is in this stage since eternity)

A tip I'd like to give you - if you are aiming for 60ies and up, place the waistseam at about ellbow-hight (as the men's doublet partition), it's a wee bit above the natural waist-line. (Sadly, we are still not done with the women's cloth guide)

[vanityfairy]

We'll see who finishes first then! ;o)

Thanks for the tip, but I'll be making mine without a waist seam so I only have the the flaring out to think about. =)

[ashamanja_babu]

Beautiful! I love working-class wear.

[vanityfairy]

Me too! After being obsessed with Marie Antoinette silk pastels for a few years, I'm really falling for handsewn wool garments with simple and elegant lines!