A Tudor Costume 

me too!!!!!! and I wish I had the skills to recreate this!!!

me too!

It's a lot of fun! I'm part of a Scottish reenactment group that focuses on the Elizabethan period, and though our garb is not quite this fancy, the basic pieces are the same. We just don't wear as much jewelry or any type of headdress. I love doing reenactment, I feel so beautiful. I will say though, the layers are HEAVY., especially since we wear wool and linen. It's exhausting to carry around so much fabric all day, most people don't realize that. Find a group and join in!

i cant afford the costumes, otherwise i would.

Most guilds (with the exception of maybe the royals) are tailored towards beginners. Many have loaner garb that you can wear for a season or two to get on your feet. That's how I started. I thrifted quite a few pieces of my garb and then I recently learned to sew, which really cuts down on the cost of labor. Fabric is another story. Don't let cost dissuade you. If its a worthwhile guild, most will help you through your first years. :D

Daniele Todorov Sometimes with dresses I like to wear them for a while (spin around in them, take selfies , whatever - just spend time in them) but this one isn't much fun to move in! I don't think I could get in a car wearing it. Even getting through a door would be a bit of a challenge. I tend to enjoy the process of making them more than wearing them, especially when it is warm out and they have a dozen layers!

You find a historical or reenactment group to wear it to. There are a few good ones. Or renaissance faires. Organizers may even pay you.

DT i know meeee 2😊😊😊

LOL!

LMAO!!!!!!!!

It totally is. Rock on.

Noah Broughton It's probably really impractical, and you might be denied entry in certain spaces because they think you're an actor, but no one can stop you from prancing around the street or going to the park in it.

***** honestly though it would be no different then me doing normal drag and going out so there really isn't anything stopping me (Except for the $90 of boning I need to buy to finish my elliptical crinoline, I'm doing an 1860's look.)

If half the things celebrities do is socially acceptable so is this. Wear it to Walmart, they'll let you put on anything.

PFFT!! Forget socially acceptable, just wear it if you like it!:3

it's impractical so people slowly ditched this type of fashion but if u want to wear smt like this go ahead

Violet Snake slowly? ppft- it was only to the late 18 century and early 19 century till we started wearing more clothing like our modern day clothing. Then WWll was the start of women working so they really needed something more suitable for working

@@AngelicAutumn women have always been working

Whitney Sews Oh, I didn't know you were following Angela! You both have huge talent :D

Me too! Verry much to be honest :(

Same

There would have been wicker structures under the skirts, but a lot was done with padding, like bags of sheep wool since these structures had to be light to wear.Wicker was popular, like basketry but of course it was covered with quilted fabric and padding.They didn't use metal much for hoops at this time, or even corset stays (bone/ivory). The flat front was achieved by dressing, tight lacing in the bodice, often in a heavy canvas material with cords, and a thin flat board, the busk, was slid/shoved down the front from the bust to the waist. The ideal shape was an inverted cone, with a flat side on the bosom. The breasts would have,in a low-cut gown their upper convex shape, rather like two small apples sliced at the equator and stuck on the chest, rising toward the chin!! No lower curve was shown, rather a squished look, I'd think! As for the overall shape/silhouette, the skirts tended to drop straight early on, although they were heavily pleated in thick materials. Clothing was usually put on in pieces, eg sleeves were laced onto the bodice at every wearing, and the under-dress, almost like a shapeless nightgown, could be allowed to show or even puff a bit between laces and dress pieces. The front of the bodice ended in a long point in front, over the skirt. With padding around the hips, the over skirt would be heavily gathered/pleated at the waist and flowed from the waist almost out horizontally before dropping to the floor. there wasn't much support or hoops lower that the thigh at this point, it was all done at the hip/lower hip so the rich ness of the fabric could spread out and drape well. Under the dresses and all of their layers, the legs were fairly free to move, and ladies often suffered from the cold without some kind of leg covering. Later these wicker shapes became the sideways farthingales, which would increase the hip widths to ridiculous proportions, but only on the sides, left to right and not front to back. Women usually had to go through doorways sideways like crabs and it was impossible to have intimate conversations while walking side by side! Farthingales remained largely wicker, and strapped on with leather belts and ties.

You're welcome, serendipitous timing, right? Working on a look? everyday kind of thing or Hallowe'en? I don't know WHY or HOW I know all of this kind of stuff, but I love it!

Will do, on the long paragraphs! I used to type for a living, so I tend to write a lot! I'd love to have some historically accurate clothing too, and I have attempted some pieces, but of a much later era (1910). I think for now I am satisfied with learning and doing a lot of the detail work, like passementerie (spelling?) and then doing just a bit to embellish a coat or such. Currently my addiction is manipulating fabric into flowers and 'jewelry; I love the Japanese kanzashi, which is like origami in that by folding and gathering fabric, one petal a a time is formed and then they are all stitched together. My fabrics of choice - shh! I go to thrift stores and buy old silk ties and scarves.It's so much cheaper than buying new fabric and the ties probably wouldn't get sold as they are usually very dated looking, and sometimes a bit shabby. But, by taking them apart, hand-washing them gives me enough fabric to use and it challenges me (keeps me from being bored) to mix fabrics to complete a larger piece. A costume designer and fellow textile/fiber-nut once told me that dry cleaning strips silk of its outer layers, but water renews them. After the ties are taken apart, the silk gets dropped in a small bucket of cold water to soak for a few days before the gentle washing and line dry. Aside from the 'flowers' and fabric shapes, I also making dozens (hundreds?) of these silk hexagons, and stitching them by hand is very fast and fun. I carry a little box with me, and I can whip them up in waiting rooms, while on hold, etc. The hexagons were originally, ahem! going to be just a few to decorate a scarf but now I am thinking I could keep going and make a scarf just out of the hexies, sewn together either with/out spaces in between,sort of a honeycomb shape.. The hex shapes are small enough pieces that I can use many of the leftovers from larger projects. I also occasionally dye some of the silks, but I haven't gone too much in this direction.. I suppose I could do more since I like the look of over- and am fascinated by the process, esp shibori and those methods of resist, etc. I am exchanging craft ideas with a friend in another state and will have photos of the steps for the flowers and variations, would you like some pictures?Maybe I WILL have enough for a blog (but I don't want there to be a giant rush to the thrift stores for old silk ties!!). My email is cre8majic@aol,com, call me cre8, if you'd like..

I'm creating a similar dress, myself, and reading your comments was very informative, thanks! In particular, I could see that her hoop skirt was poorly structured at the top and created a weird sag in the fabric between her bum roll and the hoops, making the silhouette look wrong in profile. I wanted to know the proper way they would wear it to avoid that sort of thing, because I'm obsessed with detail and being accurate. I'm even doing all of the sewing by hand. Ouch.

+M.J. J. I'm just jumping in here, but yea I think you should do a blog.

Kiki Contreras حنانالقلعا

this is actually a Tudor PRINCESS costume

All hail the princess?

Angela Hsiao all hail the royal women!

metropol Theater Thank you! :)

Paula B Thank you! No, a project like this one has over a hundred hours of work into it and dozens upon dozens of steps. Making a video showing the process would be pretty much impossible, but like with all my projects there is a write up linked in the description box!

+Angela Clayton you're so talented!!! I wish I could make this! I can barely use a machine yet!

Catnip F Thank you so much! I'm glad you like it!

wonderful!! I can paint her for free in that dress!! it's just wonderful!! You did a fabulous job!!!

You just lift the skirts and go. They didn't wear underwear under the chemise.

The WGamerz The veil is made from velvet, so it's about as opaque as it can get! But the hood should be slid a little further up. My research led me to find equal evidence for over sleeves that attached to the sleeves (even cut as one piece) vs ones that lace on, so for convenience sake I attached them. But the foresleeves to attach with laces. Thank you for the advice, though.

Angela Clayton You're welcome! I understand that these do take soooooooooooo long to make so I can understand why you would leave the sleeves attached. :) You just earned a new subscriber :)

Angela Clayton I think it was Anne Boleyn who started the low French hood trend.

+Robin McKee No Catherine of Aragon worn French Hoods way before Anne Boleyn did. Historians don't actually have alot of evidence for the whole Anne and French Hood thing, all her portraits are after her death. And the only known image of her (A coin) has her with a Gable Hood and she was recorded wearing one on her execution.

The WGamerz Not true at all, theirs no evidence that Anne started the trend. French Hoods became popular all throughout the 1500s, it wasn't Anne who started it. We only know she wore a Gable Hood at one point (From the Coin and the execution) not a French Hood. Both Catherine of Aragon and Princess Mary Tudor, (Henry VIII sister) wore them before Anne came to court. It's a huge misconception that Anne made them fashionable. Historians cannot find any evidence for that in the record. Also most of Anne's earliest surviving portraits have her with a Gable Hood not a French one.

***** It was hand embroidered, but not by me! It was actually a stained napkin my grandma embroidered, which I repurposed :)

Angela Clayton Aw, that's really sweet :3

Stays!!!

WolkeYume Haha, it's fun but it's also a bit frustrating, because it takes two hours to get into and five minutes to get out of! All that work ends up in a pile on the floor.