Last year I made an Elizabethan noble dress to wear while performing at renaissance festivals that was an utter train wreck. It was my first machine embroidery project, the fit of the bodice was off, and in an attempt to glam it up I think my dress looks more like a costume than my goal of period clothing.
No one said anything to me one way or the other about the issues I have with this dress. I would never,
ever point out any of these issues on a patron or fellow performer’s clothing Many of these things bug
me and me alone and I admit I’m shallow enough to let it affect my performance.
Extreme Renaissance Festival Costume Makeover
You could say the Tudors are the originals when it comes to clothing capsule collections because most of their clothing either tied or pinned together so they could mix and match sleeves, foreparts, bodices, stomachers etc.
My costuming focus this summer was making my husband a new embroidered Tudor doublet, breeches, and hat. In the interest of time, I remade and made over the items that didn’t work and kept or tweaked the pieces that do.
