Dress Project Change...
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helwenWell, I will be making the German dress, but not in the next month or so... it's been rather hot and humid the past few days so research has been slow as I try to get the brain to work.
Couldn't find my previous sources at first but had an interesting time reading about Burgundians -- both the original people (probably Scandinavians who migrated), and the people who were called Burgundians (at least by historians) but were named after the region that was named Burgundy after the original people. Murf.
K and I had talked about about this at Pennsic because I thought I'd remembered there being a German connection to the Burgundians. Which there might still be, seeing as over time the Burgundy area changes a lot, in physical dimensions, political affiliations, cultural influences, etc. And the Roman had thought the original Burgundians were an East German tribe because of where they were staying when the Roman got there (east of the Rhine).
However.
Part of Burgundy, at least in the 15th-16th c. where I'm focusing my clothing interest, is Bruges, in West Flanders. Which means of course, Flemish clothing, not German.
Here's a link to some paintings by David Gerard, a Netherlandish painter who worked in Bruges:
David Gerard
Yes it's Wikipedia, deal. There are pictures.
Then there's this: 15th c. Flemish Dresses (a few of my dresses are sort of like ones in Gerard's paintings)
Sadly, none of my late period dresses are in black or gold, so I'm going to have to make another dress, as we've opted, along with other landed barons and baronesses attending Coronation, to go in our respective groups' colors. It should be quite a colorful assembly :)
Couldn't find my previous sources at first but had an interesting time reading about Burgundians -- both the original people (probably Scandinavians who migrated), and the people who were called Burgundians (at least by historians) but were named after the region that was named Burgundy after the original people. Murf.
K and I had talked about about this at Pennsic because I thought I'd remembered there being a German connection to the Burgundians. Which there might still be, seeing as over time the Burgundy area changes a lot, in physical dimensions, political affiliations, cultural influences, etc. And the Roman had thought the original Burgundians were an East German tribe because of where they were staying when the Roman got there (east of the Rhine).
However.
Part of Burgundy, at least in the 15th-16th c. where I'm focusing my clothing interest, is Bruges, in West Flanders. Which means of course, Flemish clothing, not German.
Here's a link to some paintings by David Gerard, a Netherlandish painter who worked in Bruges:
David Gerard
Yes it's Wikipedia, deal. There are pictures.
Then there's this: 15th c. Flemish Dresses (a few of my dresses are sort of like ones in Gerard's paintings)
Sadly, none of my late period dresses are in black or gold, so I'm going to have to make another dress, as we've opted, along with other landed barons and baronesses attending Coronation, to go in our respective groups' colors. It should be quite a colorful assembly :)
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Date: 2009-08-13 02:12 pm (UTC)People (coughcough) who use it as primary documentation, and never leave the site, make me nuts.
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Date: 2009-08-13 02:56 pm (UTC)Well, and trying avoid really egregiously wrong stuff, except knowingly. Like when I dressed all Indio-Tribal-?? for Midnight Madness...
Grrr
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Date: 2009-08-13 04:22 pm (UTC)OK - macabre - but cool! ;)
My family and I were there in the early 60's during the 1,000th. anniversary of the town's founding!
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Date: 2009-08-13 06:26 pm (UTC)