At 17:32 13/04/2006, you wrote:
O.K. I give up! I have searched all the usual suspects, Arnold,
Mikhaila, Waugh, Tudor Images, Costume in the Western World,
Davenport, Ashelford etc., the costume books edited by James Laver,
a beautiful Czech book I have and so on. I cannot find an image of a
gentleman in breeches and skirted doublet for about 1560-80.
It is for my husband to wear to an SCA event we have been invited to
in the summer. I have all the garb for me for gentry, and my husband
has a pair of wool breeches and a pair of slightly non-authentic
boots that will have to do. However, as he is only going to be
wearing this doublet once, and i am totally tight for time, I need
something simple and thought that a plain but rich wool skirted
doublet would be ideal. He has his own peascod belly so won't need
padding, but the only images I can find are of upper class servants,
or peasants, and my husband would not have been a peasant!!
(Me? marry a peasant? - bah!)
Sorry, I should have made it clear that I can easily find images of
the doublet with trunk hose or plain hose, but not with breeches.
That is what I need.
I may have to go with what I want rather than what is strictly
authentic, but any advice or images would be most welcome.
Suzi
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://vassun.vassar.edu/~jasaeger/img/maps/hoefnagel_1024x-2g.jpeg&imgrefurl=http://vassun.vassar.edu/~jasaeger/img/maps/london-a.html&h=768&w=973&sz=166&tbnid=5x31pXSylFzxVM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=148&hl=en&start=14&prev=/images%3Fq%3DHoefnagel%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG
The young man on the left is wearing the kind of doublet I mean.
(Sorry I don't know how to compress the url.)
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