La cotte simple
An exploration of clothing and accessories of the late 14th and early 15th centuries
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La cotte simple An exploration of clothing and accessories of the late 14th and early 15th centuries |
The Fashionable English Lady in 1480
Building
a 1480 English Lady's Outfit (teaching slides in PDF format) -
New
The English bonnet circa 1480 and its veils
Martial surcottes
Martial
surcottes of the 14th century in England and France (teaching slides in PDF
format)
How
to draft and sew an early 14th-century-style sleeveless martial surcotte
Grande assiette tailoring and the Charles de Blois cotte
My
pattern for the Pourpoint of Charles de Blois (navigates
to lulu.com)
The
tailoring of the grande assiette
The
"elbow hinge" explained
The
Pourpoint of Charles de Blois: cut to pieces by a determined
tailor
Setting a gore into
a fabric slit
Embellished purses of the 14th century
Aumônières—embellished
textile purses of the European 14th century
An
aumônière as it might have appeared in 1380, Paris
How
I stopped worrying and learned to love layers:
An analysis of fitted dress styles depicted in the art
of the late 14th/early 15th century
An
introduction to the paper
Sidebar: the "cotehardie"
in period art
A 10 meg .doc file
A 1.4 meg .pdf file
Building the feminine silhouette
Introduction
A curved-front-seam
fitting method — step-by-step photo-essay
A straight-front-seam fitting
method — step-by-step photo-essay
Side-by-side comparison of
bust silhouettes produced by both methods
The "versatile"
gown and its role as a body shaper
The belly:
fitting for a period appearance
Sources for the late 14th/early 15th century clothing enthusiast
My ever-growing library as recorded on Library Thing – Updated August 2011
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