Get Ready With Me - Early Anglo Saxon - Dressing as an Anglo Saxon Woman
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
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Here is a little Get Ready with Me video that I've put together from my research in the time period, and featuring some old and new items. My brooches are from the Jorvik Viking Centre, garments and woven bands and shoes made by me. Its the first time using my new set for this type of videos. I hope it adds a nice setting for them. I have another coming up for a Viking woman. I hope to do one of these for each of the larger time period I am working on.
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weird detail i noticed: your shoes are a little worn already, adds a great layer of immersion! also great video, love that you not only address the dressing up but also styling the hair... great attention to the details.
Haha, yes, I have worn these shoes very often and they are well loved. I am looking into designs for a new pair to make in the coming months. Lately, I have been interested in seeing the hairstyles preserved on bog bodies, and the lovely long braids that were wrapped around and through themselves.
Turmeric would not have been available in Europe until after the Crusades.
Yes, maybe I forgot to mention in the video but I used tumeric because it was very cost effective for me, but they would have most likely used weld for this yellow color.
Thanks a lot, very informative, very pretty comes onto my I want to make this for every day wear pile!
I love these comfy clothes for every day wear
Only thing I'd question is- the lack of hose... otherwise, that looks fantastic!
From what I was reading for my sources, this early of a time period they said they could not definitively determine if women did wear hose because there wasn't any evidence. But perhaps just the sources I was reading didn't have that information and there are others that say so. I have seen some interesting things about stuffing shoes with straw etc for warmth. To me, I would think they would wear hose but I could only find writing about it for later periods.
You have a lovely voice Gabby
Thank you so much!
At the end of this video, there is a cartoon depiction of two women. I am wondering, when were dresses like that worn by the woman on the left, in use?
Hi! I was curious, roughly what century/era is this costume?
Hi! This is meant to be circa 6th century!
I love that deep green color. How did you achieve it?
@@MossyMozart I bought this wool already like this, so this one I did not dye myself but I think with weld and woad or indigo over dying it could be achieved. This was a thrifted wool I got from a destash site.
It's important to note that church fashion is after peasant dress.
Doubt they wore a peplos which is Greek but they probably copied the stola which would have been worn by the Romans only a couple of centuries earlier - assuming you are in Britannia that is.
Watch the video on this by Crow's Eye Productions, based on actual finds and the clothing they show the Anglo Saxon women wearing is totally different and makes more sense. It shows those living in the vicinity of Sutton Hoo for those interested and they wear garments worn elsewhere in Europe at this time rather than a garment worn in classical Greece in the last millennia.
Saying that I do like the colours and the green as an over gown would look nice, just not worn as a classical Greek garment in POST Roman Britain.
I have to relook up my sources on this because I definitely was reading some things that showed a peplos like garment for the period, unless I was just misinterpreting the image and thought it was folded over but it wasn't. Oddly wikipedia also describes a peplos like garment. I will have to find what it was. I do need to watch that Crow's Eye video, I haven't seen it yet.
Would there have been any jewelry worn with this style of gown? Temple rings or necklaces? Brooches other than those used for closures? Are there any examples available? I'm assuming that headwraps or coverings were not that common.
Depending on wealth different types of jewelry may have been worn. I have even seen in UK antique shops a few different types of jewelry, necklace or bracelet possibly an arm band type thing that they are claiming to sell as originals. Here are some links to some jewelry articles in relation to Anglo Saxons. Pendant type things seem quite common. I believe also bead necklaces. coriniummuseum.org/2022/12/anglo-saxon-jewellery-from-burials-to-beowulf/
www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/466158
What colours and coloring agents would they have had available?
Lots of plant dye materials! Weld makes yellow, woad makes blue, madder can make pinks, reds, oranges, depending on how fresh it is and other elements. There are also mordants etc that can alter colors, iron as a color shifter can make things more muted or more of a green tone. In addition multiple dye baths can be used to over dye one shade on top of another creating many various tones. Also for wools there could be whites, ivories, greys, brownish or near to black depending on sheep natural fleece colors. The bolder the shades the more dye material required so the more wealthy would have more vibrant clothing, whereas the poorer population might have been the last to have their fabric dyed and receive lighter hues. It can require a very high volume of dye stuffs to get a vibrant color.
Do you cover men's clothing?
I would like to cover masculine fashion in future videos, but thus far I have mainly focused on traditionally feminine interpretations.
And I thought buttoning up a dress-shirt was bothersome!
What class would you put this early Anglo Saxon?
I know she woke up on the floor but I wonder what wealth a person of this attire would possess.
I feel as though I should have pinned it before putting it on...After a few times of wearing this style...it seems to make more sense to me to leave it pinned, or at least pin it, then slip it over the head.
One of the biggest reasons she woke up on the floor is simply that I don't have a mattress made of straw. I thought about bringing in a bunch of straw, but this is the room that my foster kitten spends most of his time in, and I didn't want him to maybe eat little straw bits, so decided against it.
Early Anglo Saxons who were of a more modest class, such as this lady, would usually have a floor covered in rushes. I just have this faux sheepskin, which I found at the thrift store. My idea of this character is that she of the working class.
@@gabbytriestomakethings I appreciate the detail you put into this response. Previously I had this vague evolutionary blank (???) between the roman Stola -> ???? -> petticoat-ish attire of what women would wear back in these further back times.
Going from sleeping from straw to mattresses is good evidence of progress. Glad you're so thoughtful to your cat.
Thank you again.
Might women have worn a knife too for their use in doing chores?
I have to look that up, but I think its possible. I think also women carried most frequently scissors, not sure if that's true in Anglo Saxon times, but it certainly is later.
Men woman and children carried knives they have been found in the graves of all of the above
How did women manage to feed babies with these style of clothes?
This is a good question! There is another neckline style for the under tunic/kirtle which I am wearing (the yellow dress) which is a keyhole neckline, meaning the front is split a few inches down and then pinned closed, and this type of neckline can most likely facilitate breast feeding as it would create a way that the garment can be unpinned and the breast underneath exposed for feeding. The green peplos type garment unpins easily as well, and the smock underneath could also be made with a keyhole neckline and I have seen that done as well, however for mine I chose not to do that neckline since I currently do not have need of it. It is definitely easy to adapt into that neckline if needed.
@@gabbytriestomakethings I had forgotten they had the split necklines, that makes perfect sense! Thank you
Great question, thanks for asking, I wpuld not have thought of that!
HaIr covering?
In the sources I was reading at the time of making this video, it didn't specifically say anything on hair coverings, but since doing further and later research as well as practical applications I would imagine they must have. I am starting to learn things like just because some sources say they couldn't find such and such doesn't necessarily mean it didn't occur. I feel as though some at least cloth veil around the head must have been a thing, or something similar to the viking cap in my viking video or the dublin cap, but those items were dated later.
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