Thursday, May 14, 2009

15th Century mens undergarments

Time for my second post. This time I will show you my first 15th century mens undergarment. I think they are called breeches in english.

I've been wanting to make me a pair of these for a while now since I've been walking around in 13-14th century braies. I've been thinking a lot about how they were made.

Some of the reference I looked at:


After some time looking in the Medieval Tailor's Assistant and after some altering on that pattern I finally then came to a conclusion together with Mikkel about how the pattern could have looked like to make it work like you see on the pictures and paintings. I then made a test pattern out of this idea.

It came out similar to this:


After that I made a test pair and fitted them in where they were too big. After that I used the test pair as pattern and cut out a real pair for sewing. This is how they came out:





They look pretty stupid because they are not tight enough, and not anything near enough as the ones on the paintings for my liking, but they are pretty comfortable to wear. They are also a very good first pair and I can now develop a much better version out of my experience with this one. So I'm definatly going to make another pair or two.

3 comments:

Mikkel Frederiksen said...

Looking good Simon! Nice to see some skin on this blog ;-)

... even though it is mens skin...

MackTheKnife said...

Nice work, Simon. Just be careful on the next ones not to make them TOO tight! You might resurrect that old Medieval tradition of the castrati. 8-)

Bob

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