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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
Yup, I made 'em! I had a costume book, which drew the outline of the pieces of the garments, but I blew them up to human size and from there, made it fit. There's a group out in the midwest here (and a separate group in the east coast of the US) which sets up a military camp (hundreds of white tents) and re-enacts a generic battle, and what cam life might have been like. Your outfit is a usual camp look. My dressier look had to be billed as "someone sight-seeing from a nearby town" since I wouldn't have worn clothes like that, as a camp follower in tents. Lots of fun!
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Which book did you use? I've got "The Cut of Women's Clothes" by Norah Waugh, although I've never been brave enough to attempt anything from it. I made my shortgown this weekend from
this drawing, but it's just one piece of fabric and hard to mess up. I love the relaxed fit of it, though, and the fact that it hides my inappropriate underpinnings! I don't do any formal reenactment, anyway -- I just try to dress appropriately for whatever kind of spinning demo I'm doing.