Early Saints and Feast Days

Well, I did it. I created a new Community, called Early Feast Days and Saints and posted the first entry and comment just so I could have a link to post here. :)

I like this idea better - other folks can post what interests them, or their research, and I think that will be more gratifying.

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I am going to reenactor's hell...

I just sent BossMan up to an SCA event with a late-16th century theme - with two pairs of modern pants to wear. See, the weather/allergy season kicked me in the face all this week with the result that I couldn't concentrate well enough to sew new (correct-to-period) clothing for him. Yet this event is one that really deserves to have the participants in as close-to-period clothing as they can manage. So I borrowed a trick from an old friend. I bought, in a second-hand store, two pairs of pleat-front pants with slit pockets  (I looked for suit pants* but there were none), removed the belt loops, cut the legs short & sewed gathering bands at the bottom.

He now has two pairs of 'trews'. Sort of. If you squint.

Luckily, he does have one pair of linen trews to wear with his shirts (thank goodness those were already there) and after this weekend the emergency ones will be useful for fighter's practises when he's playing rapier rather than heavy. That will save on wear & tear on his event clothing. But for now, he's going up there with only trews and shirts... shame on his valet! And his seamstress!

I am feeling better so this morning I started working on his linen doublet that will match his real trews. Even though I cut it out last fall, it fits well so I can safely use the 'real' trews and doublet pattern to make him one or two more outfits without needing him here to try things on. Then he can jettison those kinda-sorta, okay, not even that, pseudo-trews.

Assuming I can get him to part with ones that have pockets...

* Good ones have no pockets in the back, and only slit pockets in the front.