Research-Historical Clothing

I found this on the Wiki page for the Early Modern Period of Calabria. it's titled Costumes in Calabria about 1800. I like it, it shows period dress that is different than what we think of as English or French clothing about the same time period. Nothing from court or nobility, but true, local clothing. It's colorful and multi-layered, as so much clothing was.

I don't really go into clothing a lot in my stories unless there's a point. Such as people are sneaking around a warehouse at night in December like in Smuggler's Captain. I do go into more detail about clothing in that story because of what my characters don't wear and their reasons. In both Husband of Convenience and Sins of a Rogue I detail what Paul and Kaya wear because they need new clothing for several reasons.

 

There's a lot that goes into dressing for historic time periods and while I find that fascinating, to read I think it's tedious. Maybe I'm in the minority?

 

Several years ago I visited Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia and took one of their short informational courses on how to dress during that era, so early 1700s ish. Man there's a lot to wear! I sometimes don't want to wear shoes, but all those layers, with no zippers...maybe for a day, for dress-up but I'm not so sure about all the time.