A man in skirts

[frualeydis]

My husband now has a pair of petticoat breeches. Since I haven't gathered the legs to a leg band or canions yet. He looks funny in a trouser skirt. I am currently making some of the lacing holes. I don't have enough buttonhole silk to make all of them, but I can make some tonight.
Maja is ill, she's had a bad tummy ache all afternoon and now she's got a temperature, so I don't know how much sewing I will get done during the weekend. Rickard will be away playing war games most of the time, since it's the annual gaming convention, GothCon during easter. Hopefully I will be able to make the codpiece tomorrow anyway.

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[jillwheezul.livejournal.com]

Do you know Katia Johansen? By a quirk of fate I am working with her niece. She says she works doing conservation for the Queen of Denmark and I see she has written some things I have seen.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Nope, I don't. I presume from your post that she's a conservationist (right word?) and I usually don't meet any of those. Since my (previous at least) time period of research is the middle ages and there aren't that many preserved garments I mostly meet archaeologists. And other hisotrians of course; those I meet most.

/Eva

[tailordrews.livejournal.com]

Petticoat Breeches!
Have you ever read Samuel Pepys diary? Petticoat breeches were very popular in his days, and he tells that one day he came home and changed his breeches, and discovered, that he had taken both legs trough the same hole and walked about this way all day!!!!
I hope we get a chance to see him in them one day. What wil you be wearing to match?

Bjarne

[tailordrews.livejournal.com]

Katia Johansen?
She works at the textile department at Rosenborg Castle.
She is giving a lecture tuesday about the extravagance courtlife in Denmark during the time of Frederik V. Gustav III's wife Sophia Magdalena was his daughter. They borrowed her weddingdress from Livrustkammaren and it is on display here now. I am going to se the exhibition tuesday, and the lecture two. They say that the female visitors are allowed to try on a copy of the pannier worn with Sophias weddingdress one of the worlds largest panniers. I am very excited to se the exhibition and the copy, wil take photos if it is allowed.
I know a little to Katia Johansen, she also wrote books i have with costumes from the collection. They keep costumes from our kings and queens at Rosenborg in Copenhagen.

Bjarne

[myralea.livejournal.com]

... and i also know her. she i a good friend of our workshopand a favourite dansih (textile) conservator :)

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

They will turn into normal 1570s pants as soon as I add the legbands, unfortunately. I would love making something from the 17th century however. But the only groups who do 17th century here are doing military life and I'm a dedicated pacifist and besides I don't want to portray either a washing woman or a camp follower. I want pretty clothes and some dignity.

/Eva