My Husband Wants Garb!

[NicoleBridget]

Huzzah, my husband finally wants to garb up!  He has always been really supportive of my ren faire love, and he loves going to faire with me, but he's never expressed any interest in wearing garb.  But recently he asked me to make him a costume (I think to break me out of my sewing funk).  And then I realized that while I feel I know a great deal about women's dress, I know SQUAT about men's.

Step One: buy Margo Anderson's men's pattern and read the manual.  Good start there.  But now I'm finding that while I'm seeing the basic silhouette of men's clothing, I'm still not envisioning the details: the fabrics, colors, trim, and accessories.  I want to get a design sketched out but, like I said, all I see is a silhouette.  I feel like I need to see some portraits.  My husband is sort of rugged and manly man, I don't think he'd be as comfortable as a dandy, so I think ruffs are out, and he wouldn't like too much leg showing so I'm thinking tall boots and longer length paned slops.  But otherwise I definitely think he has the look.

If anyone wants to bombard me with pics of great men's Elizabethan nobleman's garb, or portraits, please feel free to do so!  I need to get inspired and get a more detailed image in my head.

[Kate XXXXXX]

 

[isabelladangelo]

http://elizabethan-portraits.com/Drake_and_Raleigh.htm

http://elizabethan-portraits.com/Leicester_and_Essex.htm

Check out the above links.  Also:


Fencing Doublet featuring a protruding peascod waist Western European about 1580 CE Leather silk linen cotton by mharrsch, on Flickr

There are always some extant ones to ogle over.   

[DonaCatalina]

Early Italian might be less difficult and look a little less dandy than some of the Elizabethan garb.
Frederico Gonzaga

Nobleman on a balcony by Lorenzo Lotto

Portrait of a nobleman by Titian

Thread here on Men's doublet patterns
Reconstructing history's pattern for skirted doublet and coat
Henrician pattern

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

I sent you a PM, Nicole Bridget. Hope you saw it.

[Rani Zemirah]

So few portraits show men's breeches.  I've never been much of a fan of slops, since they just don't really seem all that, well... manly looking, to me.  Neither do hose, to be honest... but there has to be something in between, surely. 

[Kate XXXXXX]

Venetian slops: they are more Early Stuart than Tudor, but:

[DonaCatalina]

I don't think there is anything unmanly about a man in doublet and hosen.

[Rani Zemirah]

Just a personal preference.  I'm probably just a peasant at heart, and I prefer a man to look a bit more rugged, and capable of a full day's work... or maybe I'm a bit too partial to the Golden Age... and like the look of the pirate or highwayman.  It's that whole bad-boy syndrome, I'm sure!    lol

[NicoleBridget]

There is some great eye candy here, thanks everyone!  I showed him some pics and he seemed to like this overall look, as worn by Clive Owen:



It's regal without being too...frou frou I guess.  Which, while I have nothing against men en frou, Dave's personal style is more rugged and I want him to be comfortable.  I actually rather like this ensemble myself:



I think we're going to go with black and gold, sort of as an homage to his favorite football team, the Steelers.  Still not sure of the design yet, or even what fabrics to choose, but I found a gorgeous trim and maybe having it will help me envision where we're going with this costume:

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

My husband, the Earl of Olmsted in red velveteen with the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk (CORF) in his Doublet and Paned Slops.


The Earl wearing his Black Brocade Doublet and Slops with Captain Jack Sparrow in tow.



Some Doublet and Paned Slops ensembles I did last year.




Not too foo-fooey by any means.

[Rani Zemirah]

There is some great eye candy here, thanks everyone!  I showed him some pics and he seemed to like this overall look, as worn by Clive Owen:

I like this very much!  I think it might be the boots that make it a bit more rugged looking, perhaps. 

Lady Kathleen, that black, red and gold is AMAZING!  I can envision that with wonderful boots, as well!   


Yes... there is just something about a man in a well made pair of tall boots...  (swoon)

[DonaCatalina]

You couldn't ask for a bigger pirate than Sir Francis Drake.