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| An outfit of roughly the 1640s, made for the Jersey Heritage Trust (in the Channels Isles). The outfit I made consists of suit, montero cap, 'Dutch' greatcoat, shirt, officer's sash, hosen and sash garters, (the Trust already had the shoes and hat above). The suit of doublet and cloak bag breeches, is made in 'petrol' blue wool, by Abimelech Hainsworth. It is fully lined in linen. The doublet is cut with a four-panel 'skirt', and has shoulder wings, and sleeves that are split to show the fine linen shirt worn beneath it. The doublet is trimmed with silk braid, and fastened with replica pewter buttons. The sleeves have a one-button fastening at the centre of the split (roughly at elbow level). |
| The breeches are made in the classic 17th century 'cloak bag' design. The body of the breeches is gathered onto the waistband and onto knee bands. The breeches are trimmed with the same braid as the doublet, in a double row down each leg. The breeches fasten at the fly, and at the knee with more of the replica pewter buttons. At the back of the waist is a laced adjustment. Both the doublet and breeches are based on patterns in Norah Waugh's 'The Cut of Men's Clothes'. |
| The montero cap is made in more of the 'petrol' blue wool, and is lined in a lighter grey wool. The design is based on one shown in the Farndon window, and the 'flaps' fasten with a handmade 'fingerloop' cord. |
| The 'officer's sash' is made of a shot silk taffeta, in red. |
| The 'Dutch' coat is in a grey wool, and fastens with pewter buttons in the same style as the suit. The same buttons are holding up the folded-back 'bucket' cuffs, which mark this out as a 'Dutch' coat, (which is so called because it was a style brought back to England by soldiers who had fought in the Thirty Years War on the continent). |
| The outfit is then finished by the addition of a linen shirt, which has plain horn buttons at the cuffs, and a tie at the neckline; a pair of grey woollen hosen, and white linen hosen; and handmade inkle-weave sash garters. |
