Several years ago, I was taking a class about 14th and 15th century clothing. During the class, the teacher brought out her own dresses and gowns, showing how she made them, including lots of nifty modern shortcuts. One of her dresses was a neat shorter dress, about mid-thigh in length, and meant to be worn over one of the floor length gowns. She mentioned while showing it that it was based off of a period image, but she had a feeling that it wasn’t really all that historically accurate as normal everyday wear. I don’t remember much else about the short dress, but I found it an interesting idea! I have seen it crop up on a couple other medieval reenactors since then, which helped keep it fresh in my mind. Read more ›
