Real world clothing stinks

[Dannyalcatraz]

Having seen pictures of Danny, I won't be able to sleep - EVER AGAIN!!!!

[sings]"I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts!"[/sings]

 

[Set]

Assuming that you are not able to readily find a supplier by contacting your local chapter of the SCA, what you might try doing is this: Visit a local fabric merchant, and tell them what you desire. Most such places maintain a list of their customers who do sewing-for-hire and are more than happy to provide you with the information.

And that's probably your best bet. My mom makes cloth goods (quilts, etc.) and it seems that every place she goes to get bolts of fabric, they mention having two or three dedicated sewers to whom she can contract out some of her work. Find someone with the right sort of equipment, the right skills and get ahold of the fabric and patterns you want by shopping around online / doing some research, and you can probably get it done cheaper in your local area than ordering from a specialty place.

 

[Wepwawet]

If you want "real" medieval clothing, people already gave good options.

But I want to give another suggestion: just go to regular present-day clothing shops and check out what they have.
There are many many shops and fashion designers that it's possible to find stuff that feels like elven or ranger clothing. And the important word is "feels", because going to work dressed in a ren. fair or halloween costume is just... you know... silly.

You can really find that in regular clothing shops, just go to non-jeans sections. Really, I've seen that many times, some pieces of clothing that combined would give a good medieval fantasy look AND you'll look good.
It's even easier if you're a girl, because there's so much more variety of clothing for girls than there is for men.
Really, just check the stores. Check out the earth tones, linens, etc. You'll have to go to many stores but I'm sure you'll find what you want.

I'm talking about real XXI century clothing that looks and feels like fantasy clothes.
Another way of looking at it: what would Galadriel, Legolas and Aragorn wear if they lived in 2009 Earth?

If I have the time and find any fashion website with examples of what I mean I'll post it here.

EDIT: Cloaks may be an exception

 

[Pbartender]

You can really find that in regular clothing shops, just go to non-jeans sections. Really, I've seen that many times, some pieces of clothing that combined would give a good medieval fantasy look AND you'll look good.
It's even easier if you're a girl, because there's so much more variety of clothing for girls than there is for men.
Really, just check the stores. Check out the earth tones, linens, etc. You'll have to go to many stores but I'm sure you'll find what you want.

I'm talking about real XXI century clothing that looks and feels like fantasy clothes.
Another way of looking at it: what would Galadriel, Legolas and Aragorn wear if they lived in 2009 Earth?

Some of you may laugh, but watch A Knight's Tale. In that movie, the costumes of all the leading characters were based off of modern designs (specifically, the costumes used by the Rolling Stones during one of their tours in the 70s), but arranged to look vaguely medieval. It might be a better place to start from than LotR, since you'll actually be able to find most of the costuem pieces (or somethign similar) in stores.

 

[Desdichado]

It's easy to say real world clothing stinks, but then again, you probably don't want to see most real world people naked. I think it's kinda a wash.

 

[Leif]

It's easy to say real world clothing stinks, but then again, you probably don't want to see most real world people naked. I think it's kinda a wash.

LMAO!! All too true.

 

[TarionzCousin]

Remember, for most of the middle ages even cotton was a luxury good.

During the late medieval period, cotton became known as an imported fiber in northern Europe, without any knowledge of how it was derived, other than that it was a plant; noting its similarities to wool, people in the region could only imagine that cotton must be produced by plant-borne sheep. John Mandeville, writing in 1350, stated as fact the now-preposterous belief: "There grew there [India] a wonderful tree which bore tiny lambs on the endes of its branches. These branches were so pliable that they bent down to allow the lambs to feed when they are hungrie [sic]." (See Vegetable Lamb of Tartary.) This aspect is retained in the name for cotton in many European languages, such as German Baumwolle, which translates as "tree wool" (Baum means "tree"; Wolle means "wool"). By the end of the 16th century, cotton was cultivated throughout the warmer regions in Asia and the Americas.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.

 

[Scribble]

We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.

stoopid tree sheep.

 

[Andor]

stoopid tree sheep.

Even as we speak some GM is turning this into an encounter with an angry tree ram.

"Are you sure we need to get nuts from this tree?"
Baaaaaa! *Wham*
"I swear to Melora I will prune you!"

 

[TheAuldGrump]

If you want 'real' active clothing, rather than pseudo-medieval, check out Tilley Endurables - The Finest Hats and Travel Clothing in the World

They make fantastic travel clothing.

Cheers,
Dan

And I will always remember their one time advertising slogan of 'Get the hat the elephant sh*t.' - from an incident involving a zoo keeper, and a playful elephant that ate the zoo keeper's hat. Three times. The zoo keeper fishing it out, washing it off, and continuing to use the much abused bit of haberdashery.

The Auld Grump