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I’m semi-active in the SCA and although I started out doing 9th century Anglo-Saxon, I recently made a set of Italian Renascence clothing. My intended period is late 15th century; one hopes that I’m not too far off. Anyway, here’s a gallery of me wearing the stuff. I made every item save for the shoes.
I’m wearing mutande (boxers), camicia (shirt), calze (hose), farsetto (doublet), mantello (cloak) and cappuccio (hood).
An interesting item is the hood. Traditionally hoods were separate items of clothing with short mantles. Then, just as today some young bucks wear their baseball hats reversed, some young dandy thought to wear his hood with the face opening on top of his head and the mantle off to the side. This became the basic form of the chaperon, which eventually evolved away from being a wearable hood. Many of the exceedingly silly Yorkshire-pudding hats are chaperons. Anyway, I can be seen wearing the hood up, down and as a chaperon.
My cloak is reversible, as is my hood. It’s pretty striking however it’s worn.
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