Dressing up a middle class lass, circa 1460s
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 เม.ย. 2022
- Welcome to another one in the series!
as requested, more middling sort wear - hope you like it!
Premiere pro seems to have eaten my credits, so here we go below!
Credits
Costumes and presentation
www.priorattire.co.uk
Shoes:
www.np-historicalshoes.com/home.php?lang=en
Photography:
www.timelightphotographic.com,
Location
Tixall Gatehouse, Landmark Trust,
www.landmarktrust.org.uk/
Music:
Chriss Green,
www.chrissgreenmusic.co.uk - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
Modern woman: “I hate sewing set-in sleeves!”. Medieval woman: “Which of my interchangeable sleeves shall I wear today?”
Goes to show that, contrary to what many people think, our ancestors weren't stupid.
@@kck9742 yea you get many more diverse outfits that way, not to mention easier laundering and mending.
Modern woman: “I love my sewing machine” Medieval woman: “can I borrow it?”
A fur lined gown sounds heavenly for cold weather 💙
There was a picture of women wearing kirtles that made me realize the traditional nun's habit is actually medieval high fashion.
I have been IN LOVE with that overdress ever since I first saw it in your 500 years of medieval fashion video and I am so glad to get to see it again in more focus! thanks so much for sharing your wardrobe and knowledge with us!
I'm a non-native english speaker and I understood everything you said. I agree that the echo is a bit unpleasant though, but I don't understand why people are being so critical. Lovely video as always!
@@coop5329 well, I don't know what to tell you. I understood everything and I'm sure I don't speak your language better than you do.
That winter gown looks amazing, especially with the belt. Very cozy but fashionable. I'm quite jealous :D
Me: "I'm not going to worry about research for the first draft of my story, I'm just going to write."
Prior Attire: *uploads a video that fits the time frame of my story*
me: "dammit"
Regarding supportive undergarments: through my research, I'm discovering that different cultures had different levels of support in their layers; currently, I'm focusing on SCA-era Ottoman Turkish, and it seems the gömlek (the shift layer) would have offered some support (I believe these would have been fairly fitted in the chest area, with buttons providing the tension, if that makes sense) while the zıbın (the stays / kirtle layer) would have given additional but minimal support as a fitted garment.
That's just my take on Ottoman Turkish after about a year of trial and error lol
It’s exciting to hear about your research. I’d love to know more!
Speaking of convents, could you someday show what layers nuns in various centuries would wear?
Not my area of interest
Mainly the same as anyone else, just - theoretically - of poorer quality fabrics and very simple/basic in design.
Almost invariably the habit specified matched the minimum needed to be considered modest and properly clothed at the time the order was founded but in the simple homespun type fabrics and colors that would be appropriate for those professing poverty and a desire to live simply serving others by prayer or charity. Similar to how Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity are "dressed in simple and modest cotton attire of a
three-striped blue bordered sari (worn in Bengali style),
simple footwear and a simple cloth
handbag, with no wrist watch, no
finger ring or other accessories."
So, convent clothing was usually prescribed by each order's rule. You can look them up pretty easily, just type the name of the order you want and rule. High medieval fashion was often the base, though made of plainer, hard wearing fabric. Undyed wool and linen was often the base (which is why so many habits are a sort of beigey-yellowish colour with subsequent layers used to denote the specific order a nun or friar belonged to. This is one of the reasons many nuns still wear hoods: the uniforms came about at a time when wimples and veils were really popular.
I'm so obsessed with historical fashion, especially medieval fashion! My dream is for people to see me on the street and wonder if I'm a ghost or a time traveler! Lol
I find it more comfortable, although my daily wear is usually from a couple of centuries earlier than this.
After the complexity of Victorian couture, the simplicity of shift, kirtle, and gown is refreshing. It looks so comfortable too (except for any pins holding sleeves to the shift). I prefer this to jeans or leggings! A fabric store in Northern Virginia used to carry what they called "tropical weight wool." That fabric was very light and truly was delightful to wear in summer.
A full length skirt should also be warmer than jeans in the winter ... same as fingered / non-fingered gloves (mittens).
In the 80s and 90s I wore lightweight wool gabardine suits and tailored dresses to my corporate office every day and even in my mild climate and summer weather, didn’t overheat. The breathable rayon lining and primary wool fabrics are the key. Nowadays everything is lining with plastic (polyester) and one is lucky to find any clothing that isn’t made of outer fabrics of poly, nylon or acrylic. I’m allergic to those, too, so I rely on the natural fibers plus the rayon/viscose/lyocell fabric family.
A lot of clothes are just made of plastic. I love my 100% cotton mid 18th century settler clothes. I understand completely.
I definitely require viscose lining when choosing fabrics myself. Polyester lining pretty much defeats the choice of good outer fabric!
I don't buy polyester garments, even if it's only a little bit polyester. You could say I'm a natural fibre snob ;-).
i absolutely love and enjoy your videos. may i ask a favor if its possible? are you able to use a mic? i am hard of hearing, so often rely on CC, but with your lovely accent, the CC is so completely off. the echo in the room and the distance from the camera/mic, its really rather difficult to hear you and make out what you are saying. i can get the jist of most of it. i understand if that's not possible, but i thought i might request it.
I wondered if there was a way to go back and correct the auto transcript. I used it this time because the audio was difficult with both the music and the echoes but it came up with some ridiculous word substitutions. Fortunately between what I thought I heard and what the computer thought it heard, I got enough to guess at the correct word but it took some work.
I actually turned on the auto-captioning triggered by a pop-up survey on the matter, and the results were a lot more random than usual. The bot can't seem to cope well with archaic fashion terminology.
Seconded. Since youtube cant be bothered to allow user-submitted subtitles anymore, I really wish she'd get a little clip mic or something, because I have a really really hard time understanding her in these big echoy rooms that she records in
Agreed. I have sensory processing issues, which includes sound/speech in certain scenarios and this video was particularly difficult to understand
YT captions crack me up: “The Catholic is slime linen”, instead of “The Kirtle is lined in linen”. Sometimes I have to turn them on, I can catch everything, but I’m not sure if they help at all, especially with British accents.
Always enjoy your videos. This one had difficult sound, echoing in a chamber.
This outfit looks so comfortable. Simple yet very elegant. I hope your shoulder feels better soon. I understand completely.
I’ve just realised I haven’t had any notifications for you for months! I assumed you hadn’t uploaded anything for about 6 months because of COVID or something but I’ve just seen you’ve done quite a few! I’m subbed and 🛎 for all notifications. TH-cam is rubbish these days 🤨
Lovely to see you back (even thought you’re only just back to me?!) ❤️
Same by me.. sh* (naughty word) youtube 🤬
@@monikahasch7441 So annoying isn’t it?! 🤨 I don’t know why it’s becoming more and more frequent across so many channels and communities, but it definitely is.
been posting at least twice a month all the time, you have some videos to catch up!
Happened to me with Tasting History sith Max Miller last month.
Has been happening on a number of different channels this year. Suddenly seems as though nobody is posting, then you look and you've 3 months of catching up to do. Very annoying on the part of TH-cam.
With a gown cut like that , it could fit regardless of changes to your body shape . No need for maternity clothes as it could accommodate the bump easily. Good for older ladies when you spread a bit too ( l know 😉)
The dreaded middle age spread!
I am a 70s girl and hate wearing a brassiere. I think I’ll go medieval!
Wow! You look so beautiful in that dress! It is so wonderful to see a real-life version of these styles because they look so pretty and detailed that you can't experience from and image or painting.
Like every time, I did thoroughly enjoy the video Izabella. Always great to learn and see how people dressed back then. Your videos are such history lessons, things you can not learn in school.
Wish you all the best with your shoulder, and I hope it will be okay very soon.
Those tunics and kirtles do look wonderfully comfortable! And no brassieres - those lucky women! Very sensible. I'd love to wear clothing like that, except I find going upstairs with my hands full in a long skirt impossible. Do you happen to know how women in the past managed that? I've always wondered....
Some women would tie up their skirts I would imagine
In Scotland at least there was a thing called "kilting" (as referenced in the ballad of Tam Lin) that meant taking the hem of the back of the skirt, pulling it forward between your legs, and tucking it into the belt, which basically created something like harem pants.
@@FunSizeSpamberguesa Now that's interesting! So much we don't know about everyday life in history!
A way to walk differently is useful; if you can’t tuck up your skirts or are only going up a short flight, you kick the fabric out as you step upwards. Bot dramatically, but just enough so that the fabric flares out beyond your foot so that you can step on the stair without the skirt in the way.
Just FYI: the captions are currently so out of sync that I had to turn them off because they were just making it harder for my brain instead of easier.
same :(
I think they're fixed now.
@@jonesnori
No, I’m only getting autogenerated captions now, which are never a good alternative when dealing with unclear audio and even the slightest bit of jargon.
Would you consider using a clip microphone? The exteme echo with the added in music track makes it near impossible to understand❤
It's actually not that near impossible to understand. ❤
I've always loved the clothing from this era, comfy and elegant at the same time. Thanks for the video! Hope your shoulder is better soon.
the echoes are giving the subs conniptions. apparently the catholic is wall lined in slime.
I can't stop laughing and it's cheered me up after a hard day.
Oh, mine said the Catholic is slime linen!
I absolutely love watching these historical dress videos. I’ve been watching this channel for about 3 years now and I’ve learned so much and it’s amazing how clothing has changed so much throughout history. I may only be one of few 16 year olds who actually love sitting down, watching historical dress videos and period dramas and wanting to create something exactly like it. I find it so enchanting that you could actually step back in time through historical dress.
It may take me a while for my projects to come out looking like I just stepped out of a painting but you can do anything if you put your mind to it and practice makes perfect. I’m planning on buying your first book, hopefully in a few months, because your Victorian projects are some of the MOST historically correct ones I’ve ever seen. Such amazing work put into all of this, well done and keep up with the excellent content :D
These clothes looked very comfortable.I love the winter dress .I should imagine it would have kept them quite warm as the folds created more layers..Thank you for showing us it was very interesting.Those shoes were very moderate to as at some stage they had got ridiculously long points on them in both mens and womens.How they climbed up stairs I will never know ..Love n Light 🥰
I adore all the work you always put into this...not only the clothes but the info on the time period you are showing us! What I'd like to know is what is your favorite time period to dress up in, if you could choose anyone of them? 🤔
Lovely costume. Interesting to see that the henin was not attached to the frontlet (which I assumed it was) but the frontlet was attached to the fillet. The henin with the butterfly veil is gorgeous.
I too, found that interesting. I also always thought the frontlet was attached to the hennin - to be able to hold it/yank it forward to keep the hennin from slipping back. I have also read somewhere (duh) that the fillet was made of velvet as was a lining strip inside the hennin. These had the velvet nap going in opposite directions so that it acted a bit like Velcro for seating the hennin, hence the frontlet for pulling the velvet strips solidly against each other. I have made hennin in this way and the velvet nap trick works really well.
That was a pretty spin
I agree.
I really enjoy these videos.
Lovely video. It always makes me laugh when it is suggested that there weren't basic bra-type garments in the pre corset era - I don't believe that women with big boobs didn't create something to support them 😂
Thank you for mentioning your bra size in reference to the fit of the kirtle. It helps me understand how much slightly larger bust would be supported. (34h)
I love fashion from these eras gone by
This made my day! I’m always so excited when you post new videos!
THE QUEEN IS BACK, YES I NEEDED THIS
Back? I have been posting regularly for the last months, at least twice a month?
This video has some bizarre comments underneath it, never seen such comments in your videos before... I wonder why that is! Now for more important things: I'm obsessed with henins and the different types and styles. Loved seeing yours!
I love your videos. You put so much time and effort into them using your expertise.
Please keep them coming 🙏I love these kinds of videos
Really beautiful pictures! And the dressing process always so interesting!
Love this! I always wonder about layers in the medieval era, because it can be hard to guess from just peeks in manuscript art. And what a lovely era!
The hennin looks so flattering!!
Thank you for another happy time in your company :) By the way, l find it wonderful how your features adapt to all eras, from hennin to powdered wig to regency cap to modest bonnet, it just goes along with the style. Amazing, really!
Love that spin!
Thank you for the spin at the end:)
Lovely. And they look so comfortable.
I somehow read it as 1840s and I was confused for a moment xD
I love watching all your videos as I have a huge interest in and love of history.
Loved this video!! So often I've looked at portraits and tried to understand what they were actually wearing. The sleeves were especially interesting.
I just found this channel, & love it. I feel as if a woman from the century is actually explaining it. (At least until she checks her cell phone. 😉 lol) Thanks!
I've wanted to learn dressmaking for a while now, but this video has inspired me to do it, because I would love one of those dresses. If the red dress had long sleeves, that would be my perfect dress. Love those shoes too - where did you get them?
She almost always puts everything in the description
Allways enjoying your videos.. thanks for making them.. 💞
I like it thanks for your effort
Funny you mentioned your steroid injection after wriggling in because I was sat here thinking how much that would hurt my frozen shoulder. I'm probably going to require a second injection. Dear God it hurt that evening.😖 Hope whatever your dealing with is temporary and the painful after effects of the steroids are gone soon.
that was filmed in January i am now awaiting a procedure for the the shoulder when they will break up the capsule under anaesthetic.... injections didnt work :-( hope yours does!
Btw, I had the captions on, the auto ones since the other version, for some reason, was about a minute behind, and when you were taking about your hair, it had a hilariously wrong caption.😂
Check out the channel BobAnd Brad. They are licensed physical therapists and did an episode on frozen shoulder and see if it could give reief as well. For me I had a frozen shoulder because my neighbor's dog ran away and I went to catch him and I did catch him but he also ran and we both ended up flat on the ground and I ended up with my arm out stretched. I will be honest the only thing that helped past 6 months of physical therapy was when I got really high one day and was doing yoga cuz I couldn't sleep because of the pain and my hand slipped on the floor and crunched through a bunch of adhesions in my shoulder when I caught myself lol
Just reading that made me cringe myself nearly inside out.
Oh no! I'm sorry yours requires surgery. What a pain! Hopefully it will be an easy recovery for you. I have an appointment next Tuesday to see what my next step is. I had been awaiting physio, but apparently the referral was lost and disappeared from my medical notes...so I've been waiting since October for something nobody even did. 😑
Thank you for these videos!
I would love some history of ironing, which I can’t find online. I know linen was worn a lot in the past, but I find unironed linen a lot less comfortable than ironed, and I wondered when ironing fabrics began.
You think it could be related to the weaving? Our machines now can make very fine fabric, with thin threads, and maybe back then they didn't make it that thin? Then the fabric is thicker(than ours now) and sturdier.
I've noticed with the linen items I have, the thinner, the more wrinkly without ironing.
is there any evidence that coulours were refreshed once they looked a bit faded?
It's the finer linen that is softer - coarse, thick linen was preferably used for something else than.
Still ik the 18th-19th century well-to-do peasants chemises had fine linen in the upper part that showed, and possibly coarser linen below waist.
There's evidence from at least medieval Turku (city in Finland, at the time part of Sweden) of ironing stones - flat, smooth stones that would be heated and used to iron clothes that way. I'm sure if it's been done in the peripheries of europe, it's been done everywhere.
Love these!
That was super fun to watch!
I want that belt!
That's such a great look! Thanks for walking us through it!
Always look forward to watching your channel!
I LOVE the crazy hats.
EXCELLENT!
Amazing. Your knowledge and talent are just amazing to me.
Thank you for the video, and I hope your shoulder gets better soon!
That is some lovely swish in the slow-mo video (and a scandalous amount of leg! :D)
Lovely video. Enjoed very much. Very interested in the Tudor style clothing. Is there any original clothing found that’s left from that era?
I find that mode of dress quite peculiar. You always give a good demonstration and you look good in all of them. I would find these clothes quite warm but cumbersome. Funny little shoes. I hope your shoulder gets better soon. Stay well,be safe,til next time.😊💐
I really enjoy this period dress recreations (I'm a historian of ancient and medieval history 😊) Would you consider trying ancient Roman or Byzantine? That would be fascinating!
I have serious belt envy over your wide belt you wear over the gown. Where did you get the wonderful buckle set?
I do enjoy your videos but I'm struggling to make what you say out. The room gave a fair amount of echo
The auto-captions are not bad, but yes, the echo makes it harder.
Showing how you "made" that coif out of that rectangle of linen would be very interesting to see!
Stunning!!!!
Lovely
Thank you!!!
I would like to see you make some 15th century head pieces for aristocratic women. There were so many varieties with very complicated designs.
Great make more videos like this
Read the subtitles at 19:10!)))
Well, they really need to fix that.
_giggles_
LOL
Hmm, I'm not sure that would have been a good way to keep your hair secured. ROFL!
@@kck9742 Depends on how you're using it, I suppose.
I love kirtles ❤❤❤
With the volume of the constant music bed and the echo, it's difficult to hear u clearly, fyi.
Definitely. I had such a hard time hearing it and I turned on subtitles.
Will you be writing a book covering these eras as well. I am buying your latest one on horse riding garb for my daughter but my interest is in earlier periods (would like to make that winter dress, looks great and would suit anyone) but there aren't many decent books available covering the period - 1100. - 1500.
The horsey one will cover that period too- with patterns for this gown ibcluded
@@priorattire Thank you,book will now be for me and my daughter can look at it.
Kicking someone with those pattens would leave them knowing they were kicked!
Love your accent!!
Very appealing
I love your videos but PLEASE sort out your sound so we can all hear what you are saying!
Or at least sync up the captions
Love it, but that unclipped back belt would have driven me doolally in no time 😂
I would so love to have the pattern for the black gown. Is it perchance in Patterns of Fashion?
The dark green? No. But it will be in my next book
@@priorattire Wonderful! I look forward to it and thank you for your delightful channel,I have learned so much from you !
Greens leaves!
Middle class was less than 5% of the population. Thanks for a good video.
Very attractive
looks comfy! ps the link for your shoes is not working
I hope your shoulder feels better soon.
I also struggled to understand the audio in this video
I have been trying to research the black veil that you show at 19:57 so I can recreate one, but I am struggling to find the right name for it to aid in my research. Do you know any good terms for it other than black veil or headdress?
Hood
Or bonnet
20:19 Open hood, open chapeau; in contrast, wonen’s hoods from the first half of the century were often buttoned.
the subtitles are really delayed, so if you're reading this and they're fine feel free to let me know lol
Same for me
It seemed lined up to me. Maybe they got fixed, because Imwatched 11-12 hours later.
Oh my goodness!! DO you have frozen shoulder? I had just started to find relief from frozen shoulder in my left shoulder and it started in my right! Do you think those types of physical limitations might have led to any changes in fashions? Do you think things like arthritis or other limitations were considered when clothing was designed?
I have just had MUA ( manipulation under anaesthesia) to get rid of it and the mi imita is much better though it will take a few more weeks for the pain to subside I think. Glad I can move it though/ it got so bad I wasn’t able to work, sleep, drive.
@@priorattire There are not only joys, as we all have. It makes me sad
Not sure why? But could not really hear what was being said. Always enjoy your videos. They are a treat in my life!
very echoey room, far away from the mic
What is like the shoes?
brb, gonna go sew some stuff
For a little popular historical context, this look is circa about a decade after, at the demands of HER OWN MOTHER, *Joan of Arc's case was re-examined by the King of France, Clergy, and eventually the Pope, and she was cleared of all charges and declared a hero!*
Jeanne's mom was having NONE of their bullshit
This is all made up
@@Patrick3183 It's one of the most well-recorded events in history; the written records of every statement still exist...I've seen/read them in English, French, and Latin!
While I love your clothes, the way you sew and what you explain about the history and the sewing details and all, I wish you would invest in some recording device, like a little microphone to pin on or speak over the video in post-production. It's really not easy to understand like this. Also, I really appreciate seeing the clothes up close, but please cut to a different take when you want to show the close-ups because if you just up to the camera, it's just always out of focus so we don't see it at all.
Yes, and lose the continual background music.