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| This is one of the first full sets of historical clothing I made. It was made for a re-enactor portraying a Scottish gentleman during the Jacobite rebellions of the mid-eighteenth century. The coat is in green wool (though that doesn't come out too well in the picture). It is based on a coat in 'The Cut of Men's Clothes' by Norah Waugh, which I scaled up and adapted to fit a modern person. The coat has large bucket cuffs, and quite a lot of pleating at the back (obviously not visible in the picture). False buttonholes are embroidered onto the coat in metallic gold thread, and brass buttons are attached to these at one side (yet again, these can't be seen in the photograph). The embroidered buttonholes are also present on the cuffs and pocket flaps. The waistcoat, in a tartan supplied by the client, is cut to a pattern from the same book. It has silver metallic thread embroidering the buttonholes (some of which are obviously functioning) - again the embroidery is extended to the pocket flaps, as shown. The waistcoat fastens with pewter buttons, and has an area of lacing at the centre back, to enable a better fit. Both coat and waistcoat are fully lined in linen. The trews are again made in a woollen tartan fabric supplied by the client. These are made to a pattern taken from a pair of trews that formed part of the suit of Sir Joseph Cotton. To say that the pattern is complicated would be an huge understatement! The fly has a covering similar to a codpiece, but it is flat, and attached at the side of the opening. In addition, the trunks are cut separately from the legs. In all other respects, however, they are very similar to a pair of medieval hosen. |
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