I've updated my web page

[frualeydis]

I've put up some more pictures (and text) on the page for my red high-necked gown.

ETA: And of the purple gown. With a link to the picture Sara took of me in my corset and farthingale, feeling like Scarlett O'Hara. Or a hovercraft.

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The thing for me with post-1500 clothing is that I can be completely period, while otherwise I have to cheat with a sports bra (or something like that). OK, I can go without with a tight bliaut or Gothic Fitted Dress too, but that is hard on the shoulders when you have large breasts. But with a corset or properly boned kirtle you never suffer from that. And I like that.
The problems with moving for me, if I'm not going to do any manual work or take care of Maja, is more that I can't bend over so easily and that it's hard to move with a farthingale in narrow areas.
And everybody experiences that.

The main reason I don't do 16th century more is that the group I'm a member of is directed towards the middle ages and not the renaissance. But that's of course no problem in the SCA.

/Eva