kass
-
Posts
1,528 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Gallery
Everything posted by kass
-
They're not for sale. But I can persuade them to work for you for a fee... :)
-
The price kinda goes along with the purchase of the garment, dear Pat. But if you want me to figure out how much I would charge for buttonholes on a read-made garment, give me a minute and I'll figure it out... The elves in the cellar say $2 per buttonhole on a garment that's already finished.
-
Not a clue. Didn't dress like one at least.
-
Oh yeah. Can't forget Queen Mary! If it weren't for Mary, William of Orange would not have been able to rule England. She had a much stronger claim to the throne than he did. There's a great book called "Ungrateful Daughters" about Mary and her younger sister Anne (who succeeded William and Mary) and how they kinda sold out their father, James II. Hell, I always thought Jamie was a weinie anyway! And they were BOTH grandchildren of Charles I. Ewwww... Cousins marrying...
-
That's because you're actually English, Ed. Everyone knows that you can't be English and be King of England! You have to be Welsh or Scots or Dutch or German...
-
Don't know specifically, Rateye, but I think we can make some assumptions based on politics of the time. When Charles II died in 1685, his brother James II ascended the throne. Unlike Charles, James II was Catholic and was determined to change the religion of England back to Catholicism. He was driven off the throne by 1688 and William of Orange, a Dutch Duke, was brought from Holland to rule. Shortly thereafter there was instituted a law that said no monarch of England could be Catholic. So even though they weren't burning them in the streets or beheading them in the Tower as they were in Elizabeth's time, Catholics weren't very well looked upon in the GAoP. I have no idea if Catholic and Protestant doctors would use different treatments, though. I really don't know anything at all about medicine of the time.
-
It wasn't everyone saying this, mind you. But there was one moralist in particular who was quite vocal on the subject, Thomas Beccan in a book called The Catechism (published in 1559). Also JL Vives, tutor to Mary I, wrote a book entitled The Education of a Christian Woman in 1532 which dictated that girls should only be allowed to read serious moral writings and not Ovid or romances. I find it interesting that he was tutor to Mary I, later known as Bloody Mary, who was famous for her cruelty and violence in trying to convert her father's kingdom back to Catholicism. Guess those "moral" writings didn't work so well...
-
This is pre-GAoP, but in the reign of Elizabeth I, moralists advocated the education of women with the idea that children received their first religious training from their mothers. If the mother couldn't read the Bible, she couldn't teach them properly.
-
Do you mean1700: Scenes from London Life by Maureen Walker?
-
Oh yeah, Captain, because that's all your own hair! I know your secrets... I read the wigs thread...
-
Just make sure you take anything that sounds like the author's opinion (any sentence that starts with "I...") with a grain of salt. Liza Picard is wonderful at gathering together resources of the period and presenting them in an easily-digestible whole. But whenever she starts, "I can't imagine..." this or that, she just belies her knowledge of feeling of the period. She's a great reporter. And an editorialist, she should keep quiet. Oh and Cheeky, that tension between Catholics and Protestants didn't end in the 1730s. It lasted well into the 19th century. But, of course, for our purposes, we stop caring about it.
-
Put you down for one of each then, Cut-throat? Seriously, we're not going anywhere. Take your time. We'll be at reconstructinghistory [dot] com whenever you're ready.
-
He's got such pretty calves. It'd be such a crime to cover them up with bucket boots!
-
The pewter buttons are plain, flat. Handsewn buttonholes on a frock coat would run you $75. That's for all 65 buttonholes: front, back vent, top of the side vents, cuffs and pocket flaps. His frock coat is a dark olive colour. Hard to see, I know...
-
No need to PM. That particular frock coat starts at $285. That gets you a 100% wool gabardine (tropical weight for summer wear) frock coat lined with linen and fastened with pewter buttons and machine-made buttonholes. The cut of the coat is based on an original in the Museum of Costume, Manchester, England and dates to 1690-1700. Hand buttonholes, prick-stitched edges, interlinings, bronze buttons cast from period originals, laced seams and other embellishments would be extra. I could price these things out for you if you so desire. :)
-
Oh and Johnny, this is a picture of a simple frock coat, waistcoat and breeches combination: This isn't the fancy, high-end version. It's really the simplest version of the outfit without any accoutrements or trimmings. But this is what your officers would have been wearing.
-
Sock lines!?! Nice catch, Cut-throat. I'm going to have to photoshop tha out! Thanks.
-
Mr. Foxe's site is really the best collection of period pictures of seaman's clothing on the internet. You couldn't do better than to start there with your search. Captains (and other officers) had their own garments made by a tailor, so they generally wore the fashions of the day. The common sailors had their clothing issued to them, so there clothing was very uniform and simple.
-
Absolutely! Did you look at the pictures on Foxe's site, Johnny? This short type of jacket was so particular to sailors that it became known as a "sailor's jacket" (or more precisely, "the short jackets worn by seamen"). The British Navy's Admiralty Slop Contracts from 1690 through 1740 provide specs for tailors to make these jackets for the common sailor. So they were very common. It's thought that they were invented to avoid the wide skirts and large cuffs of the frock coats that were becoming popular for wear at all levels of society in the early 18th century. They sure are comfortable, warm, and functional.
-
Johnny, you really need to check out Foxe's site: Period Seaman Pictures And since you asked about pictures of ourselves as well, here's my husband in our Slops Contract Jacket and ticken breeches: We sell the ready-made clothing as well as the patterns if you want to make it yourself. Kass
-
Rateye, There's a link to the Sheraton with special room rates from The Reenactor Fest II website
-
Perhaps Ann Mills wasn't a woman at all, but a man with a name that sounds feminine to us nowadays (like "Leslie" and "Shirley" which were both male names as late as the 19th century). I know Ann was certainly in use as a female name in the 16th century if not earlier. But could it be we have a case of "a boy named Sue" here? Just a thought... I mean, that picture... Those are circa 1740s seaman's clothing and ain't nothing female about the person wearing them! In the pictures of other women passing for men, they show them to be female by exposing breasts or showing their hair down. This one, not so.
-
Glad to be of service, Captain Sterling!
-
Yes, Captain. It will! I find that many women just braid their hair or let it flow down their backs because they don't know what would have been done with it in period. I've spent so many year disguising a modern hairstyle that I've learned quite a lot. And the new website will not only have lovely things to buy, but also these useful articles that everyone can read for free!
-
Hell, I saw "larboard" in a Wodehouse novel from the 1930s!
