Charlotte Sometimes

Series: Simon’s Medieval Costume

Medieval Costume Design for Heretic LRP

I actually sat down and sketched out Simon’s costume.

The purple tunic is mid-calf length for a reason – it’s a traveling cote. It’s split in the front and back so that it could be used for riding. Obviously you’d wear it with hose under rather than a robe if you wanted to ride, so I might make them too if I have enough time.

This is the set of bodylinens I’ve already made – you can read about them in their own post.

And these are the other colours of green I’ve got for the costume – I’ve not dyed the purple yet.

Also, Sid came to visit.

And because I cut the neck wrong (too big) on the body linens, I’m working on a fancy undershirt.

January 29, 2016
Medieval Body Linens

So these are the under layers for Simon’s Heretic LRP costume. I read about online and found that in this period (early 13th Century) the length of the robes would have been used to denote the status of the wearer. So we have gone – of course – for full length. He’s going to play some kind of clever scholarly type so it makes sense.

In this shot the hem and sleeves were waiting to be measured on him and taken up – which I’m currently in the middle of doing by hand. I’m also hand felling all the inside seams. Yeah, I’m *that* kind of person.

So here’s the pattern and my cutting layout:

I picked up these gorgeous coloured embroidery threads too for doing guarded seam decoration on the outside. It’s a big project. You will barely see it. I don’t care.

And here’s the rest of the ‘making of’ shots:

I’ve not quite worked out how to turn a satisfactory point on bias binding yet.

Just needs a few stitches in that corner by hand and it’ll be fine! Setting squares by machine is *hard*!

January 29, 2016
Simon’s Medieval Costume

So, Simon is hoping to play Heretic LRP late this year. And I went OMG YES I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE U COSTUME PLS THANK U. So I’m making costume.

This is the first post in what I suspect will be a series of many. There is already a Pinterest ideas board.

Follow Charlotte’s board Costume : Simon’s Medieval on Pinterest.

This is where we’ve got to so far.

A colour scheme:

Which coincides with this years Pantone colours of 2016 (not planed – just pleased it happened!):

Some fabric got dyed:

And we went to the reenactors market and I bought wool and belts:

And that’s basically the material stash as it is for the moment.

January 15, 2016