/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>10432465
See >>10433386

>>10433391
First off, don't use me as a good reference, as the majority of my uniforms are tailored by one of the largest historic research and costume departments in the world. It fucking spoiled me.

The flat-out answer is that you are not going to buy the stuff off the shelf from anywhere and have it look any good. You're only two options, and I really do mean only, is either to have a commission peace made by a professional historic tailor, or sew one yourself. Honestly, what's the pattern is cut, the sewing isn't too difficult as it's all wool, and you don't have to him anything. That said, the right wool is kind of pricey.

What you're going to want to do first, is figure out who you want to be. Do you want to be German, French, British, American, American volunteers, British volunteers, Etc. Volunteers for either the British or the Americans means that you can get away with civilian clothing and slowly build up piece by piece.

The first thing you're going to want to do, is small clothes, which is to say breeches, a waistcoat, shirt, and then the basic accessories. You can feasibly get stuff off the shelf, and just fill around with it a little to make it fit better. Add a proper hat, and maybe a hunting for a cure, and it can least get you out there. If you want to go for a specific unit, find your local group that does that unit and see if you mess with them. if you have your own small clothes, they might have loaner coats to use. Almost everybody used heavy white linen waistcoats and breeches/gaitered trousers.

I'm currently working on my French uniform, which literally is using a pattern that was drafted off of one of the few surviving french coats from the Revolutionary War (in the collection of Brown University). It's been very slow going, and the material cost me an arm and a leg.

Picture is fairly generic Mid-Atlantic American, but with my red wool smell clothes, becomes Virginia state garrison.