Baroque traveling outfit

By the amount of time I'm currently investing in raising the number of my baroque outfits, one can tell that there might be another baroque event in the nearer future ;)

The traveling outfit is planned as the female version of the musketeer outfit I did last year: hat of the same style, skirt and jacket made from the same fabric.

The hat is the same making as the musketeer hat: two pieces of double-layered felt for the crown, a double-layered, stiffened ring for the brim, edged with 1.2 mm wire zig-zagged to the outer edge of the brim and covered with the matching yellow ribbon. Brown ribbon went into the hat as a hat-band (mainly to cover the seamline of brim and crown). Slender brown trim on top of the yellow ribbon makes the outer hat-band that also holds the two white ostrich plumes. The right side of the brim is turned up and secured to the crown with invisible stitches.

The skirt is is made from 4.5 metres of brown cotton/linen-fabric gathered evenly into a waistband to be closed by means of hook and eye, decorated at the hem with two rows of gold-yellow ribbon.

The jacket is a modification of a 1660s jacket that I found in a Janet Arnold book (I think; have to check...). It took me a while to find the guts and the nerve to alter the pattern so it would fit me, and again it turned out surprisingly nice! The fabric with its striped pattern this time isn't worked in a zig-zag but is mainly straight, lined with matching cotton and interlined with stronger fabric to carry some boning along the seams and at the front. All the seams are covered by slender brown trim. On the first outing (again time was pressing; and it was hot; and we went to shoot with bow and arrow, where too much of a sleeve would only have been a hindrance)) I left the sleeves aside and finished the armholes just with epaulettes, which will, in the second, proper version, accompany the actual sleeves. Maybe I'll just tie them in with eyelets. Let's see... A narrow peplum in two parts finishes the jacket, and it's laced in front.

I bought enough fabric for two male outfits and the female jacket, and with a little luck it's enough for three male outfits. The musketeer-outfit I finished years ago. Now in the enthusiasm of sewing we threw in another well-we-could-make-this-and-that-as-there's-still-some-time-and-fabric-left to have a matching outfit for the "couple". I fear MY male outfit will be a game of pattern-tetris!

The chemise this time has to be long-sleeved and will be my first attempt at making a baroque chemise. Up to now I always substituted baroque underwear with rococo underwear. Well, details... ;) At least I've already chosen the antique lace that will go around the neckline and the cuffs.