I am working on an  underbust corset commission for someone. It will be hunter/forest green satin on the outside, with a finished length of 14" in the front. I will be posting pictures as I work...for the lining, also hunter green.  I haven't decided yet whether I will do contrasting trim over the seams on the outside, or use the hunter green bias tape I found while I was buying materials..

Another intro I wanna add is a map highlighting the areas that sport the "Burgundian style" in the 1445-75 time period. But I haven't been able to find a map of Europe with country lines for roughly that time period. Does anyone have a source to point me at? Thanks in advance! 

Based on gwacie 's rant today about using jargon when talking about period garments I'm tempted to add an introduction section to my Burgundian mens stuff comparing the layers of a man's modern business suit to the layers in a Burgundian nobleman's formal get-up: Modern men's business wear Burgundian noble's formal attire undershirt shirt underwear/tighty-whities underwear/briefs...

Given how awfully slow my scanner's been, I am not going to have time to really do the handout for my art-survey class on Burgundian men's fashion... So I think I'm going to cheat and totally change the topic and make it EASY to teach. I'm going to do a demonstration of how I construct a Burgundian man's over-gown. Easy-Peasy. Should make people happy too, as construction classes seem much more popular...

I can't find any dress diaries about doing men's joined hose - do any of you know of any? I'm wondering if I was doing something else wrong (other then the fabric choice on Calum's hose) :-S Since the... Envoke Edna; "This is a hobo suit, darling. You can't be seen in this. I won't allow it. Fifteen years ago, maybe, but now? Feh!!" I will make new! ;-) I think I want to be Edna when I grow up. :-

...what I intended to. But that was ok, since the class went almost exactly the hour allotted to it. :-S Guess I'll have to do a different class analyzing the art for style and construction pointers for Burgundian men's over-gowns and accessories (hats, shoes, belts, pouches, etc.). I have lots left to do on what I have already written, the most important of which is to run spell check! After which I...

So, I'm still very nervous about teaching tomorrow... I've cut the class down to only talking about the shirt, underpants, hose and doublet of "Burgundian" noblemen 1445-75 (i.e. Burgundy, Flanders, France... call it Northern Europe, except not including England or Germany or Spain or Italy but I  think the last two classify as Southern Europe...?). Unfortunately despite all that cutting down of content...

 Well, still feeling overwhelmed. I pulled out a bunch of books last night and spent needleworkers looking for images of Burgundian men wearing just their shirts and/or underpants. I found something like 4 images, plus gwacie 's "bathing beauties" image and I should be ok (the bathing beauties scene is fabu ! Men in differing states of stripping down in order to jump into a river. It's a historical...

I'm at the "roll it into a ball and throw it into the corner and do something else" stage with Calum's Burgundian doublet. It's not fitting the way I want it too. Mostly due to problems in the patterning stage; for which I didn't have my research with me ('cause I wasn't expecting to do it) and therefore made some mistakes that bother me excessively(neck on the bias without center back seam being a...

...finish the chemisette tonight and re-cut my sister's 1860s bodice panels at needleworkers... that might work, it would certainly give me something to work on at the game this friday - which worried me, as it needs to be hand work and I don't think I'll have time to get to a hand-work stage on the Burgundian stuff. Unless I fit Calum at the game and mark lacing holes... hum...decisions, decisions.