Dressing up in the second half of the 14th century
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 มิ.ย. 2023
- Another one to the collection -- this time 14th century! enjoy!
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Photography:
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Location
Wolverton hall, Landmark Trust,
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I love the 14 century dresses, it really was the beginning of tailoring. West Europe expressed luxury in tailoring, while the East did it through lavish embroidery on traditional zero waste clothes ❤❤❤
If people think lacing takes too long, they should try hand sewing every stitch of everything made of cloth.
And spinning,and weaving the cloth.
A thought for maybe a future video. When you read books set in this time period, they talk about the dressmakers coming and doing measurements, pinning, cutting, etc. for the upper class ladies. However, when it comes to TV shows or movies, it's basically just a bunch of fabric thrown around. Would it be possible to demonstrate how dressmakers from this time period came up with the designs and patterns for their benefactors, especially since it's not like they could go to the nearest sewing store and pick up the McCall or Simplicity pattern :)
There were very few dressmakers per se- clothes were made by family mama Wes for most people. The clothes were simple, didn’t require a lot of measuring and you measure with a string where you tie knots to mark lengths. Then you draw the pattern you like ( still very geometric so easy).
@@priorattire My kind of measuring by the sound of things.
When you refer to 'this time period' do you mean the 19th century? Because Izabella's dress is from the 14th century, I think
I think this period of clothing, with a slightly shorter skirt, is eminently more practical than what we women wear today. I love the adjustability for the waist and b00bs and the ability to be warmer or cooler by the different layering and headware possibilities. Wool is so much better for so many reasons than polyester, which is plastic made from petroleum! Oh Prior Attire, how I wish the fashionistas and designers would adopt this style, and then it would work its way down to us plebes!
Make your own? Then you don't need to rely on mainstream trends? All of this is still handsewn so you could do without a machine ... wool is expensive, but it was as well back then ..... and you get to avoid working with sweatshop labour for things being produced
@@wednes3day Not as easily found though, woven with a stripe, check or herringbone for suiting is available but plain, I have problems finding anything plain heavier than shirting weight. I am seriously considering returning to my preferred Roman era clothing simply because the lightweight wool suiting fabric is ideal for those design.
@@musicandbooklover-p2o you might need to go online? I found a plain wool (seemed white or natural white supposedly well dyeable) going up to 480 grams (which looking at Google should cover all the way up to coats?) in one of my first search results, it wasn't remotely cheap though (like 30/yard for plain weave 480g?), the store seemed kinda luxury though from how it presented itself
Townsend and sons have good wool
Very elegant yet uncomplicated.
There are not enough people who do this Era, and this is my favorite time period for clothing. I'm currently working on a similar outfit, so thank you for this!
Slightly too late for me, I prefer the looser fit of the earlier Norman era but the fashions of the late 14thC are still much better than the ones from the later centuries [in my opinion]. And yes, I do try to history bound these early fashions.
The two dresses go together so well! Not only because of its cut, but also because of its colors. The colors are very beautiful! The long sleeves which hang down are elegant, good idea. The cap whith the long thing is curious. Well done!
Women of the time would have had frequent pregnancies,.and the.lacing would make the gown much more.forgiving in those last few months.
Not any different than any other time outside of the mid 20th century
"Tada! I'm an effigy" made me laugh so hard I startled my husband. :D
I love the earlier ones so much!
Thank you for the video! It's really interesting to see how women would have gotten dressed back then!
Boobage? Fantastic wording!
I love the idea of cloth ball buttons. I used to do a lot of covered buttons with the push-style back. They looked great and very dressy, but they were notorious for the cloth sneaking out of the back eventually. I would definitely enjoy seeing a video on that. Beautiful dressing on today.
They are very simple. You cut a circle of cloth and gather it in on itself until the right shape and size.
@@ah5721 Thank You 😊
Yes, I would be very happy to watch 15 Mins of just making a ball button!
I haven't tried ball buttons yet but I have had some success covering cheap plastic buttons with fabric.
@@bunhelsingslegacy3549 Now THAT'S an idea I hadn't thought of. Sounds like a good method for modern. I'll keep that in mind. I doubt it is such a good thing for historically correct wear.
Thank you for this wonderful piece on 14th Century fashion! Given that there is not a lot on this theme, we appreciate your contribution to this subject!
a little detail i really liked on game of thrones was the front lacing doublets a lot of the men wore. at one point we see an older sea captain in such a doublet, laced across his chest and sort of giving up across this gut, clearly because he had gained weight since acquiring the garment. it was just a neat little detail for the costumers to actively give him an undersized piece
My husband discovered your channel and thought I would be interested. He was so right. I love history, the clothing, the food. You present the history and the clothing in a matter of fact way, and with that touch of humor that makes me think that you are a person I would really like to know. Thank you!
I made a kirtle based on Morgan Donner's drafting video and am surprised how comfortable and supportive it is. Trying to figure out how to make something shorter work as a sports bra cause I hate the restriction around my ribcage of the underbust band but I suspect it needs the weight of the skirt to hold it down.
oo, good idea! that is the one thing i dislike about sport bras. i hope it works out for you...i wonder if a heavier fabric might work a bit better?
I like the simplicity of the undergarments. But the lacing still works effectively to shape the physique. And then a fun hood to top it off!
Thank you for another great video! The style of the gown is timeless ( ok, without the Tippetts😅) but it's very interesting to see more fashion from that period.
I love your content so much!! I looove accurate medieval fashion and i love to know the little details about layers, etc.
"Boobage" LOL I'd be in serious trouble back then. Wool makes me itch.
Lol, same!
I suppose that's why you'd wear a shift beneath
You can wear linen!
Personally, some itch badly and others are fine.
I'm told it might be the quality of the wool, how it's processed, the type of sheep, or other factors.
@@nathaliemarshall3079 could be the lanolin too, I know someone who's ok with superwashed or really old wool that's had all the lanolin washed out but goes itchy and blotchy with newer wool. Very fine wool is ok for me but rough will will make me itchy, though I'll itch from anything rough whether it came from a sheep or not.
It very much seems that the 14th century was the height of utilitarian, functional, as opposed to decorative, clothing. I honestly don't think, from the 14th/15th century until the early 20th, you see clothing, especially female clothing, as plainly utilitarian...and, honestly, rather flattering. It's chaste, and yet, still shows off a figure, without the unnecessary ornamentation you see in late 15th to late 19th century clothing.
Very well done!
Practical and simple clothing existed in every century. Really depended on your status, what kind of life you were living and your personal preferences. Just as nowadays
@@priorattire My point was that "fancy clothing" in the 14th century...as shown in your video here...didn't seem anywhere near as involved as it later became (again, from watching your other videos.)
I wasn't saying that practical and simple clothing didn't exist...rather that the expectation of "fancy" was a lot more involved in, say, the 16th and 17th centuries than it was in the 14th.
For example, if my wife wanted to wear the clothing in this video, as opposed to having to deal with, for example, hoops, bodices, hosiery, and the like, it seems like it would be much easier to do.
Many of the videos have clothing of more well-to do people. This seems like something for ordinary townsfolk.
My favourite period of fashion. Thank you.
So enjoy and learning about the past through your clothes and explaining all the details. I look forward to every new post.
those little tippets are amusing but also really cute and a great way to show off fancy fabric. I can see why they'd be fashionable.
Could be/ or you hitch your skirt though the belt
Love the silhouette the kirtle gives! Planning on making a late 14th century kit soon, so this video came right on time :)
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this video is so wonderful!! you're incredibly knowledgeable and your genuine enjoyment of historical fashion is infectious :)
I love the hood its making the whole outfit really cute ahah!
Wow I just love watching you and your incredible talent of sewing etc. so interesting to see just what us ladies actually went through daily. Thank you. 🇦🇺💕💐
Thank you for this! I have most of the components of this outfit, so I'm excited to see the different ways of styling it! Also, the utility belt makes me happy- it's so useful, but I always worry that it's a reenactorism!
Such a cute outfit and silhouette! I love the hood!
My grandmother tried to teach me to make handmade button holes.....I was hopeless and my embroidery and other handcrafts were dreadful too. I have returned to all of those crafts and love them all these decades later. My attempts are just barely passable now.😅
Beautiful!
Great video as always. The hood is so cute, it definitely adds to the final look. Plus, the colour combination is wonderful.
I love when you do a video like this where you teach while you dress. I always wondered what you did during this time if you were allergice to wool, like me. Sounds like a hell of hives.
Allergies are new thing- a ‘blessing ‘ of modern civilisation.
One of the (very very few) downsides of living in a cleaner environment is bc there's less for our immune system to fight off, it gets "bored" and that's what allergies are. It's your immune system going hmm there's nothing else to attack I might as well say this peanut is a deadly disease. If you look at 3rd world countries that are closer to the living conditions back then, virtually no one has allergies
This is lovely! Thank you for making the pattern available!
Loved this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love love love this info. So fascinating!
Id love to see an example of the Rus buttons one day!
Thank you looks lovely.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
This is lovely style! So different😊
Your videos are so interesting and I just love watching them!
Ah - spiral lacing of the kirtle
Wimple must have been very nice in cool weather.
and in hot weather! wicks away sweat and protects your head from the sun
The hat is so cute! I love it! It fits your personality perfectly. It needs a big mustard yellow pom pom on the end though to make it perfectly Izabella.
Another great video ! thank a lot !
Im working on such a hood as well right now they’re so fun! Nice video and outfit as always
Lovely!
You are AMAZING!!!
I should have known about the decaff coffee a few years ago 😊
Very nice and comfortable!
Lovely video, thank you. One of my favourite eras although personally I go for slightly earlier ones because I'm not a an of tight clothing. But when this dress was the height of fashion my grandparent's house was also brand spanking new, and belonged to a wool merchant as well.
And a mystery solved, Nora Batty was obviously born in the 1300s judging by the state of her stockings.
Nice video. Great garments. Thanks.
I love the videos she does!
Very nice outfit:) the hood is fantastic. Very interesting and informative video. I just discover your chanel and I love it. Dziękuję Pani Izabelo!
Interesting!
İ love isabel prior attire videos👍👏
And a hole in her stocking 🤣
I’m currently waiting on a few gowns from around this period that I ordered from a dressmaker in Europe; your video has me even more excited and anticipating the package.
What were the 14th century style of chatelaines? How elaborate could they be for different classes of society? Could the kirtle be silk lined with both wool and fur for winter? And what about the lap dog for the lady of the manor or wealthy merchant wives?
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The information and presentation is so good but...the background music can be quite frustrating. Sometimes it's quiet and then it gets very loud, so I find myself constantly adjusting the sound. No music or soft in the background would be good.
If a woman were to loosen the stomach area for pregnancy, would she put in a piece of fabric to fill the gap so the chemise doesn't show?
Good question, I hope they answer it
they always say that various gowns and stays can be nicely adjusted for pregnancy but ive never actually seen what it'd look like in practice
For indoors and around the household- no. For any other public appearance a gown woudl be worn over anyway. At that stage a loose surcoat woudl work nicely
i was hoping to ask...in some video or another, could you please explain something of the drafting or sewing of an arm sythe? i cant locate any info, and that's a main tripping point for me right now
The pattern and instructions will be in the book..
The best thing about lacing is it can accommodate pregnancy
You always look charming in this kind of dress! Any tips to shapeing the kirtle to the bust? Are multiple panels a thing for kirtles ? Or are they genrally just 3 pannels with 4 gores ?
The pattern and instructions will be in the book…
@@priorattire I would love to purchase said book , but I didn't see it on your site though 😓
What is the kneeling man in the image wearing? It looks odd because it has pleats
Death before decaf!!
That is what i used to think. Now I have not choice.
When it's not a choice it's fair enough, but I can't drink anything that's been chemically altered using industrial solvent ☠️
How well do those fitted kirtles support larger chested women? I'm an H-cup, and need all of the help I can get, lol.
I am an F/G and it simply needs a very tight fit. Made kirtles if this style for larger chested people too without problems- just many fittings! Also, supportive chemise will help, though they seem to be coming in a bit later
I've seen many a large chested sisters wear a lemburg bra or a tight fitted kirtle and had fantastic support !
Would the hems be shorter for outside-work garments?
People doing physical work wouldn't wear these types of garments. Lesser quality wool and linen, and simpler designs, and shorter in length for outdoor work.
Nothing higher than mid shin for women mostly I've seen in paintings of people of the age working the fields
Amazing! But I would need a nap from getting dressed! 😂🤎
You didn’t add anything about how you made the cloth buttons like you said, is it elsewhere?
At the end of the video…
@@priorattire but it just ends, I don’t see anything about buttons
@@priorattireyeah you didn't put anything about buttons at the end
Очень интересно и познавательно!! Большое спасибо!!
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11 degrees (I assume Celsius) is quite warm? I’m shivering at that temperature 😂
It is very warm for January in England
@@priorattire I’m from the tropics 🌴 and cold sensitive.
Edit: and no disrespect meant, and I love your channel so much.
11C =51F
Is this a working women class or upper middle class
Middle class.
Difference in details though. And middle class was still working anyway
When did boning start getting added to women's clothing?
Late 16th century
Wearing your hair uncovered in court sounds to me like the really revealing red carpet dresses we get nowadays: that's not how normal people dress, or even how actors etc. normally dress. Would that be correct?
That's an interesting concept and meshes nicely with something else I read pointing out that Paul's admonition in New Testament about covering your hair was in a larger Greco-Roman view of women's hair as a sexual organ (something about drawing semen into the body).
I can imagine that keeping hair covered also keeps it clean if you’re doing dirty work…especially around smoking fires.
@@ruthspanos2532 Yeh, that makes sense. And washing your hair would have been a time-consuming process: water would need to be brought in and heated.
So if your hair is uncovered, it's a show of how you don't need to do dirty work or travel through dirty streets. You show off your wealth by wearing a completely impractical fashion.
One more thing: you need a male version of your channel!
Already included and will be more!
There's a priorattire 1840s Dandy short video that's great! Beautiful suit.
Here it is: th-cam.com/users/shortsCUGBZ2JZYRE?feature=share
@@CapriciousCapricrn Thank you!
I live in Arizona. You DIE in the summer in wool. When it gets to 112F + you don't want to wear wool. You might be able to wear it in early spring or late fall and on cold days in the winter, but that's it. Depends on what part of Arizona as well.
And that is why clothing in America in the 14th century looked very different…
Hopi, Navajo and Pima in that region wore wool for eons, but they did so seasonally and their clothing patterns reflected the need for both warmth and ventilation. They never adopted poplins and triggers until the US military showed up wanting treaty materials.
@@RestingBitchface7 You do know that white man gave them the sheep right? And Navajo Churro sheep wool is very coarse is only good for making rugs and heavy coats? Think how pleasant it would be to wear an Army blanket next to your skin. Around here (and I live right next to an Apache reservation and used to live in Flagstaff) the Navajo woman even today were cotton and velvet tunics and tiered skirts, and men wear tunics and cloth leggings if they weren't wearing buckskin. Oh, and BTW, I'm part Native. Not enough to be in a tribe (too low of a blood quotient), but yeah. If you go to a Pow Wow, you will see less fancy styles, that is what they used to wear. You really don't know what you are talking about, so be quiet.
Actually superfine wool is quite cool. I come from Australia, and from an area that gets quite cold in winter (subzero Celsius). We breed merino sheep to grow superfine merino wool.
I have a superfine merino t-shirt that I wear in Australian summers. Although once the temperatures hit 37 degrees (that’s 100 degrees in the old money)I would probably swap it for bamboo, cotton or linen. However it is cooler than synthetic fibres.
@@brontewcat It wouldn't work where I live. I just about die from the heat in a tee shirt and shorts. It was 117 F/47.7 C just the other day. I don't want to get heat stroke. I can only use wool durning the very middle of winter.
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The outer garment doesn’t leave much room for figure changes or pregnancy 😕
If that’s was desired then it would be laced.
Also- some women never got pregnant, some were past their childbearing years- and some were yet unmarried. So no need.
who slowdown/stopped the video in the first 20 second? lol
First
You do not look old enough to be worrying about menopause.
How on earth did women survive the heat, in the southern states in america with all those layers? Or did they dress differently?
14 century in the americas- very different fashion than European, beautiful attire suitable to the climate and purposes …. ‘America’ wasn’t officially ‘discovered’ then yet….
14th century North America, the 1300's, was pre-Columbus and all the clothing materials would have been leathers and animal furs and wools (alpaca, llama, and sheep such as the Navajo Churro sheep) as well as plant textiles like linen, but cotton isn't known to the US until 1550's.
@@Ksweetpea the US didn't exist in 1550's.
@@klarachiamarsi5935 The U.S did exist, and people still lived there, just not europeans. the U.S was entirely populated with the indigenous people of the land.
@@olive8742 Do you really think indigenous people called themselves "the United States of America"? The continent existed, but it didn't have a name until Columbus discovered it in 1492 (i.e. 15-th century). Only then the continent was called "America" in honor of Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer. The American continent was British colonies untill colonisers fought for independence and called themselves "the United States of America" only in 1776. So, the US didn't exist until 1776.
Thank goodness you are wearing underpants. I paused the video on a most discreet position.