Renaissance Time!

I ADORE this time of year. It means I can get started on my RenFaire costumes. We're doing a twofer this year. One as royalty and the next as common folk. I'm doing my son's looks first because he's the one most likely to grow over the summer and I want to make sure I have time to alter later, if necessary. On top of the Klien family(The Dame, Lady and little Sir), we're going to be the Widow Merchant's family. I've developed a fascination with the 1600s middle class look so I thought I'd give that a try.

Middle Class Styles

Aristocratic Elizabethan Family

The Merchant Widows Son

             Trying my hand at a completely different type of pattern. The Tudor Tailor boy's doublet and hose is a no frills pattern. I like the simple and easy to follow instructions, but they are NOT for  new sewers, as some parts I just had to know already in order to get it done. 

           So far so good! I have the sleeves and lining in the doublet. I have to make and attach the "skirt" part and I opted to not do the wings on the shoulders of this one. The collar and skirts seem to be made in the same manner. 

        With everything attached it finally LOOKS like a doublet instead of just a jacket. I had to forgo taking pics of the making of the Venetians (pants) because my son is going out of town and I needed to get them done quickly. The construction is very simple and similar to modern pants. I hand made the buttons but instead of going for historically accurate on the pants, I just put the buttons on the outside of the "fly" and used Velcro so we don't have any accidents while we're running around the faire.  

The finished outfit.