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Tuesday, 21 March 2006 10:35 pmI have realised I am going roleplaying over Easter, and therefore I need to sort out costume. I've played Bladelands before (once) but the outfit I made was all wrong, and I've got to dream up something better this time.
My character is basically a medieval tomboy. The period is fairly strict - or at least, I'd like to keep it so, so I do want to make clothes which might plausibly have been worn in medieval times. I need to be able to run, fight, sneak and play the guitar in whatever I make, and it needs to not involve buying patterns.
Last time I made a cream cotton dress very roughly based on medieval styles - but I got the length wrong so it had a ruffle at the bottom. Then I made a ludicrous red muslin half-length skirt thing to go over the top, and a bodice thing. I wound up wrapping the dress skirt round my waist and tucking it under my trousers (which I brought for crewing) for most of the event, and wearing the red skirt round my shoulders. I need to not do that again. :)
So, what do emancipated medieval adventuresses (who are not interested in being sexy or attractive, but still have to make a living singing in pubs) wear?
My character is basically a medieval tomboy. The period is fairly strict - or at least, I'd like to keep it so, so I do want to make clothes which might plausibly have been worn in medieval times. I need to be able to run, fight, sneak and play the guitar in whatever I make, and it needs to not involve buying patterns.
Last time I made a cream cotton dress very roughly based on medieval styles - but I got the length wrong so it had a ruffle at the bottom. Then I made a ludicrous red muslin half-length skirt thing to go over the top, and a bodice thing. I wound up wrapping the dress skirt round my waist and tucking it under my trousers (which I brought for crewing) for most of the event, and wearing the red skirt round my shoulders. I need to not do that again. :)
So, what do emancipated medieval adventuresses (who are not interested in being sexy or attractive, but still have to make a living singing in pubs) wear?
