Hem & H.A*
(Historically Adequate)

PART 1: ELEVATIVE (Previous post: Introduction ) Welcome to a Part 1 of a recent talk I gave at the Westcoast Elizabethan Clothing Symposium entitled: " Wearing vs Styling: Accessorizing to Create a Period Look ". ~ Elevative Accessories can often be one of the greatest factors in taking your historical clothing to the next level.  And I think the best way of demonstrating that is to explore how the opposite can also also true...

( NOTE: The bulk of this post was written in 2022 but it was not completed and published until two years later, so the timeline it describes might be a bit confusing) *** Like so many of my other outfits, this project started out as something entirely different. Well, not entirely ...  I've been in love with these images of Bavarian camp followers since I first started down the rabbit hole of 16th c. costumes (now many years ago).