/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9863682
Now if you just have a brocade doublet how would people now that the inner lining is silk, dyed in a very expensive color and you also have a shirt which is obviously very white as you have the money to have several and pay someone to clean it?
You slash it up so people can see the underlying layers.
And also because you slash it up the stuff can't be used later to make another cloths, so it's also a statement that "yeah I put a shitload of money into this and it can't be used for anything else" This later in the nobility really catches on. I mean we are talking about materials that could easily be several months of wage of a good craftsman, so stuff like that usually got reused before people went idiotic with it.

OBVIOUSLY fashion isn't in a vacuum. it was affected by the various countries where LKs went, and boy they did got around. Also they affected the civilian and noble fashion too and then later that affected civilian fashion affected the LK fashion again, and so on.
On Mair's fencing books you see a lot of cloths that some people describe as landksnecht cloths but in reality those are german civilian cloths of Mair's time. Well off civilians. People who had full citizenships in towns and the like.

So there, know you now the simplified version.

>>9749175
and might as well end up like this

>>9332913
Keep in mind that late 15th Landsknechte were still dressed mostly like average wealthy citizens, with a little fashion rules here and there, but basically you can't really tell the difference between a city militia and a Landsknecht (We are speaking of Germany of course)

Then in the early 16th they started to get their own fashion, which later blown to full retard.
BUT there was a lot of things there. One is that they went around. A lot. Spain and Italy was some of their main theather of warfare (Sweden and Switzerland too but those aren't THAT different fashion-wise) So they sterted to incorporate some of that stuff into their LK fashion. And in turn slightly because of this and because other cultural things and trade the german citizens at home changed their fashion too.
Look at the Mair codexes. Those are all german citizen clothing of the time. It's still possible to tell that those aren't Landsknechte but you have to know what to look for.

>>8249531
a shitload of it. And as HEMAfag said it's mid 16th century and from one of Mair's codex.