Petticoats

[PrincessSara]

I'm working on developing a pattern for a Tudor petticoat, and I'm looking for any information anyone might have on the subject - period images, dress diaries, wardrobe accounts, etc.  (Yes, I know the Tudor Tailor has a pattern but I wasn't satisfied with it and so I'd like to make my own.)

I'm looking at making a gored skirt rather than a pleated rectangular one, so information on period gored skirts would also probably be helpful.

[DonaCatalina]

Discussion of 8 gore skirt
Tutorial for 8 gore skirt
Sorry- nothing specifically Tudor

[gem]

I've been thinking hard about gored vs. rectangular patterns lately, and it seems like gored panels were used in kirtles, petticoats, farthingales, and other "under-skirts," while the rectangular, pleated panels are almost exclusively for overskirts. Sealion and I were chatting about it, and it looks like this way you get a nice full hemline to your underskirts, without adding any bulk to the waist.  You should have several gored panel skirt options in TUDOR TAILOR, as well as any other costuming resources you have that include kirtles or under-skirts (and I say this, because I just poked through all of mine to discover this information).

As for your petticoat, are you making petticoat bodies (aka a kirtle, with an integral bodice), or the open-fronted kind like in TT, or what we now think of as a petticoat (just a skirt to wear under your outer skirts)?

[Cilean]

I'm working on developing a pattern for a Tudor petticoat, and I'm looking for any information anyone might have on the subject - period images, dress diaries, wardrobe accounts, etc.  (Yes, I know the Tudor Tailor has a pattern but I wasn't satisfied with it and so I'd like to make my own.)

I'm looking at making a gored skirt rather than a pleated rectangular one, so information on period gored skirts would also probably be helpful.

Hey Sara,

I found this on Drea's Site"
http://www.elizabethancostume.net/petticoat.html


Extreme Costuming discusses her Petticoat and her pattern she got from Reconstructing History:
http://www.extremecostuming.com/articles/womensclothesin1580slondon.html

Here is some cute information from Trish's Site:
http://www.trishstuff.com/?page_id=7

Hope this helps!

Cilean