Ready to wear (1640s style)

I've been meaning to write about this doublet for sometime, but it's taken me a while to gather any useful information. The pictur...

A belt in the 1640s was not worn to keep your breeches up. Generally if you had a pair that fitted, you didn’t need a belt, but as has be...

       Cut it out. The pattern (fig. 1) shows how to cut the basic pieces from 10 feet of authentic width fabric. Most modern li...

I’ve been asked for a list of suppliers, so here are my recommendations. They are all UK based and most do mail order, though there’s no sub...

I've got to recommend this book, it's becoming my bible. It's a kind of follow on to the Janet Arnold series of books, but has b...

Unless you were rich and had someone to dress your hair fashionably, as a woman in the 1640s it was normal to cover your head, possibly with...

In the seventeenth century, shirts were made of unbleached linen, the fabric varying from coarse canvas to fine weave, and ranged from brown...