Autumn Zebra

(obviously copyrighted to the person with their name on the picture )

I'm making myself some 15th and 16th Century lower class gear to wear around as normal clothes. Here's a pic of the kirtle/support layer - essentially a close fitting dress that might be worn under other clothing or as the top layer as the situation demands. It's 100% hand sewn, pattern based on information from a few different books and websites. I'm wearing it over a polypropelene top and a Victorian style chemise that you obviously can't see - 3 different centuries in one! I wore this to get a coffee at a pub (we like to mix things up a bit don't we...) then to lunch at Mum and Dad's house. I hate photos of myself, so I also learnt today how to blur out my face, like they do of criminals, suspects and witnesses ;) I'm going to post more on this properly later, this entry is actually going on a Live Journal community, but I need somewhere to post the picture so I can get to it - everytime I try and use photobucket it crashes my browser.