Showing posts with label medieval dresses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medieval dresses. Show all posts

Monday, May 6, 2013

Fashion Tips On Doing Your Medieval Make-up




If you are worrying about how to do your Medieval make-up and my article will help you solve your problems. Dressing up in medieval clothing can make for an elaborate costume, especially if you want to give the appearance of a person of consequence in medieval times. An attractive Medieval make-up is also of great importance. I will share some small tips on how to do your Medieval make-up and you can have a reference if you are interested in this fashion topic.





First, Pin any bangs up and away from the face to enhance the height of your forehead.Rub a pale shade of skin foundation makeup into your skin. Cover any skin that will be showing including face, ears, neck, upper chest and arms. You may also rub some foundation into your eyebrows and hairline to exaggerate the pale look of your face.


Second, Redden your lips with ruby red lipstick. Use a lipstick with very little shine. Do not exaggerate the contours of your lips.






Last, Rub a small circle of red lipstick onto your cheeks. This look is optional and was less likely to be used by the upper classes in medieval times.


Friday, May 3, 2013

Veils for Medieval Women




During the medieval period, women usually wore more than one layer of clothing at a time and accompanied their ensembles with a veil. A common medieval veil popularized in pop culture is the "nifel," a tall conical hat with a veil attached to the top point, but women wore many different styles of veils. According to costume retailer Medieval Women's Clothing, married women wore their hair in a tight, netted bun beneath a tight-fitting cap with an affixed veil. Single women would either wear their hair down or in loose braids beneath a loose veil. I will simply introduce some information about the veils for the Medieval women and you can have a reference if you are interested in this fashion topic.





About the couvre chef: The couvre chef was a veil first worn by French women during the medieval period. Couvre chef is French for "cover head." The veil was worn at the top of the head with various head pieces and draped down the shoulders. Couvre chefs were generally made of delicate fabrics, such as silk in light colors, and wealthy women would have their couvrechefs embroidered with gold or jewels. Anglo-Saxons sometimes referred to the couvre chef as a "headrail." By the 15th century, couvrechefs became less fashionable, though they were still regularly worn by women in the lower classes.






About the Goffered veil: The goffered veil, also known as a nebula headdress, was worn by women of all classes. The goffered veil is a short, ruffled veil that was usually made from linen and crafted with ornate pleats or embroidered latticework on the edges. The veil was worn pinned near the hairline and draped over the top of the head, and can be found in many famous paintings of the period, including "Portrait of Margareta Van Eyck."

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

How to Dress for A Medieval Wedding




Dressing for a medieval wedding can be very difficult. The majority of people who choose to have their wedding in medieval styles are those who have a lot of interest in medieval re-enactment. This means that the clothing will probably be extremely nice quality and make. I will share some ideas about how to dress for your Medieval wedding and you can have a reference if you are interested in this fashion topic.


First, Ask the bride and groom what period and nationality of costuming they're going for, and how strict they're being. Medieval can be anything from 900 (kilts and loose gowns) to 1600 (neck high corsets and hoop skirts). If you show up in an Elizabethan gown and everyone else is sporting basic tunics and pants, it will look silly.





Second, Once you ascertain what sort of costuming period you need, do a little research. Find out if it will be cheaper to make it (if you have the skills for that) or cheaper to buy it online. If you are making costuming for you and your family, look into patterns that will let you make an outfit out of the same cloth. Then you can buy in bulk, cheaper. Also, you'll be able to spot your family easily in the crowd despite strange clothing you're not used to.


Third, Once you have your costume, look up articles online about how to wear it. Men: Don't tuck in your shirt, strap a belt across it. And wear the belt under your belly, if you have a belly. It just looks silly when someone tries to girdle in their gut with a leather strap. It should go where your pants belt goes. Ask someone who does medieval re-enactment or a friend who is a history buff to help you try on the clothing. Some things that look like they go on easily don't. Corsets lace in the back, belts wrap around you twice, and men look very silly if they tuck in their shirt, since the shirt has a billowy loose bottom.




Last, wearing comfortable shoes. One of the best parts of medieval clothing is that you can wear loose pants or skirts that hide your shoes entirely, and medieval clothing never, ever had high heels until well after the Victorian era. Do not, under any circumstances, wear a traditional gown with heels. You'll be very off balance, more likely to fall, and look ridiculous.

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Medieval Clothing for Men and Women




Most of the people will be curious about the Medeival times clothing and most of the people will be interested in its clothing style. I will simply introduce some information about the Medieval times men and women clothing. You can have a reference if you are interested in that times clothing style.






About the men clothing: Men's apparel was made to be practical for their everyday work. Peasant men were the lowest ranked in society. The peasant or common worker wore a tight tunic that was short and belted with rope or leather. The belt would sometimes hold the tools the peasant would work with. He might also wear short pants or trousers made of wool.





About the women clothing: The Medieval women wore either a single long tunic with sleeves, or two tunics. The two tunic combination consisted of a long tunic that went to the heels, with sleeves that were tied at the wrists, and a short tunic. The short tunic was usually sleeveless or had short sleeves. It was tight and made of simple, unadorned material. A peasant woman could wear a belt, but those were also to be kept simple. She was allowed to wear a veil that covered the back of her hair and hung down past her shoulders. If she did kitchen work, she was also allowed to wear an apron. She wore lace up shoes and woolen stockings during cold weather.


Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Looking Back to The Glory of tne Medieval Clothing





Medieval clothing was very complex, elaborate, stylish and impressive. The wonderful and eye grabbing medieval clothing was in fact really attentive to its type. The very essence of medieval clothing would be to determine one's status quo in the society as well as the power one has. For some reason, fantastic identification is given to the men and women whose medieval clothing was a lot more extremely comprehensive, distinctive or impressive.





Throughout the middle ages, it truly is perfectly normal to wear the tight, unpleasant garments each day. For them, being dressed in such exclusive medieval clothing provides them the pride and confidence that they should have. This might be not comfortable however the medieval clothing contains their particular status, therefore putting them on is worth the pain. However presently, is it still typical to wear medieval clothing each day? Naturally not! Wearing medieval clothing daily nowadays is definitely unconventional or should I say weird. As a matter of fact, we merely employ medieval-like clothes any time attending special events that need us to be dressed in formal attire like wedding ceremonies and balls. Besides that, we use our common t-shirt and denims daily.





A lady from the royalty or the top class is only excused to put on a corset whenever she is in her chamber already. Besides that, she actually is expected to use the tight corset no matter how unpleasant it might feel. However, a merchant's wife has far more freedom in movement since she only wears a heavily boned bodice with no underlying corset. A peasant, who belongs to the lower class system, would certainly wear a simple boned bodice with dull colour. As you go lower in the class system, the everyday utilization of medieval gowns and dresses has turn out to be less typical, both formal and daily wear.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013




Are you curious about the dressing style about the Medieval times? Well, medieval clothing can't be when compared to clothing that we have. In the modern times, practically anything can be purchased and worn provided the buyer has enough money. It was different throughout the medieval times particularly as the clothing people wear typically indicates their status inside the society. There are particular colors and farbicsreserved just for royalty. Same complements the peasantry. I will share some information about the Medieval fashion and Medieval clothing with you and you can have a reference if you are interested in that era dressing customes.





Tunics or loose-fitting garment were usually worn by men throughout the Middle Ages. Tunics could be either long-sleeved or sleeveless. How a tunic is worn might be unique to members of the specific social strata, generation or gender. For example, most men usually wear their tunics with their knees, monks and also the elderly and often wear their tunics to the ground. Likewise, kings, noblemen along with other members with the royalty wear their tunics exactly the same during special occasions. Members from the church for example friars wear cloaks with their feet with rope belts with beads that they use for prayers.





Pants which were in the Germans, were opposed from the Romans but were eventually used by the populace. They wore their pants underneath the tunics. Materials useful for pants were the same as the ones useful for the tunics.As for the women, they wear one or more tunic with their ankles. However, women usually do not wear pants. Instead, they'll use woven tights or socks on their legs. Nuns also wear tunics although they only use black and white variants. During the winter weather, wool cloaks were used. Knitting was not yet invented in those days and that's why woven tights were loose-fitting more often than not for this reason.

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Expensive clothings, Perfect feeling?

 




Do you still think that buying expensive clothing products will help you have a perfect fashion feeling? If you are thinking like that, you are totally wrong. Common clothing products and accessories also can help you become fashionable and attractive only if you know how to choose single products and match them together. You can have your own ideas about beauty and fashion.







In my opinions, you don’t need to use a lot of expensive cosmetics, you just need to drink more water and wash your face cleanly. Some of you won’t agree with me but it just my own views. So you can keep your own fashion understandings and practice it. Not every expensive clothing will make you look beautiful, just those suit us are the most perfect things and it is your own fashion. I will give you an example as the following:








If you want to have a Medieval style, you can choose some elegant dresses and accessories which don’t need to be expensive just to be elegant. You just need to choose products which have the features of the fashion styles you want to be.





Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Medieval Dresses the Favorite Alternative Clothing

n the fashion world, alternative cultre has a deep influence. People try the clothes that unqique and specail to prove that they are the fashion leader,gothic, medieval, punk and boho. Boho is a alternative apparel style in the fashionable world which has been created by some famous celebrities and models. They created this trend with their different choice of the clothing from the other majority people. At the same time, medieval, gothic victorian dresses are also very poplar among customers, especially the medieval clothing adorned by people who are interested in the things from middle ages.
The fashion world keeps changing all the time, and it also has close relationship with thing in the past time, designers always use different fashion factors on their dress design, they can create the middle ages clothing with gothic feeling, or punk style, but choose renaissance style as the main theme. Some bride even pick the renaissance clothing as their wedding gowns, which are really cool and exciting, and in this way, they can understand the traditional culture deeply and well. For all the alternative dresses, different people have different ideas, some are interested in medieval fancy dress, as they are really graceful and dreamlike, while some of them prefer for gothic and punk style. Gothic and punk clothing are more cool and unique, they have more modern fashion factors and well received by the youngers than the medieval costumes, no matter how, the sub-culture clothing style make the fashion world more vivid and interesting.