/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9929609
And yet, it's /still/ better then 99% of American kit...

>>9929875
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>>9929908
It's all the same to me. I got a thing for androgyny.

>>9929454
Obviously. And more.

>>9928637
Pwaise Swunsh. What's up, Anon?

>>9927375
Yes. In the age of sail, boots would be a waste of money and a safety hazard for anyone who's not an officer. Shoes and sandals on deck. Sabots or shoes bellow deck. Barefoot in rigging.

Even officers and famous pirates rarely ever wore them. Find me a single period art piece of someone in boots on ship. Pic is Blackbeard, rocking the latchet shoes.

>>9926651
Also, you don't look anything like the pic or even close, and fingerless gloves are useless and lame looking. It defeats the purpose of having leather gloves in the first place. If the argument is tactile, you'd want use of your palm. If it's protection, you'd want your fingers covered. Fingerless leather gloves are useless at both. You only ever see them historically as ladie's mits and knitted winter wear for a reason.

>>9926651
Still doesn't look like 17thC either. You look more like >>9926643. Again, look up 17thC clothes. Pic related.

Also, that is a 20thC painting of 18thC sailors, and the reference models were probably wearing 20thC shirts.

>>9926164
2: ditch the utility-belt look.
3: burn the fingerless gloves.

>>9926164
>Making a new character for a fantasy kind of 16th century larp.
>Thoughts/improvements?

1: look at what actual 16thC clothes look like. You literally look like you made a last minute, shitty pirate costume by putting on a white Oxford dress shirts from your closet. 2/10, at least you tried

>>9922956
That too, but I find it funnier in my head to think of some dude being super proud of his new shoes, and his buddy shows up a week later with the exact same shoes, but better.

And then they call a holmgang and duel to the death with axes.

>>9922947
Sven cared more about detail than Bjarki? Who can say.

>>9922916
I hate when that happens. I'd blame the gypsies, but y'know.

>>9922919
A similar style of boot, the Heddeby shoe, dyed in iron and oak gall.

>>9922885
The Dolse boots, 10thC Ad, in the kulturhistorisk museum of Norway: iron based black dye.

>>9922885
Not off the top of my head, but I can probably Google a few mostly leather goods and embroidery/trim, as mentioned. The biggest problem to reconstruction is that people don't take into account centuries of fading and dirt on most artifacts, and that's why we see only browns in popular media.

A good example is the >>9922629 Skjoldehamn hood. It was originally light grey/white with red and yellow stitching. Another example is the Thorsberg trousers: bright mustard yellow. You'd never guess without chemical analysis of the dye.

>>9922888
Why not use a stitching punch?

>>9922705
We have leathergoods dyed with iron filing dye and lampblack dye, and surviving textile embroidery stained with oak gall. They had black plently of black.

>>9922708
I live in the American south too. Do you live under a rock? They had a bunch of the neopagan neo nazi/Germanic roots guys march in Baton Rouge.

>>9922711
You seem like the type to own a MAGA hat.

>>9922730
He's apparently not larping.

>>9922711
People who actively identify as Nazis, and those that support them, are perfectly fine to call Nazis.

But back on subject. Aside from working on my alchemist/artillerist (Nuln engineering student), my other project is helping my bro in the same game make his kit for being a handbill man/pamphleteer/professional shit-stirrer. Pic related, but more mid 16thC ala Warhammer.

>>9922806
Ooh. Got a pattern?

>>9922636
Yeah, I'm washing my hands of this.

>>9922625
That is some powerful autism
>>9922626
When? Where? You have three centuries and dozens of countries involved in the Nordic expansion.

Most people go with the Skjoldehamn hood, from the mid 10thC.

>>9922628
...I have no idea how to respond to this. As a primitive outdoorsman hobbiest, I can respect it, but as a realist, I have a feeling that "larper found dead in outer territories" will be on the news.

>>9922618
For a larp, yes. For accuracy, no.

Then again, that's not even counting the actual pattern it is, or what material it is. So the whole thing's moot point, it's just a larp costume. Just don't go around pretending that it's accurate, and enjoy your game.

>>9922609
Don't worry about it. If you don't get it by now, you won't get it at all.

>>9922602
Probably because of the way that you're coming off as an argumentative dipshit, Anon.

>>9922591
I don't think any of us are asspained, but it's more that a symptom of your autism is missing social cues.

>>9922573
Banter is supposed to be witty, bro. You might want to work on it.

My only point, is that you did not ask anything about hoods just dye. If you wanted to be accurate, you would have done the research and ask the questions before you made a purchase.

Go and have fun, but don't be one of those tool bags that pretends to be accurate rather than just trying to look cool.

>>9922561
I am just replying to what you said exactly. You're perfectly welcome to dress for modern aesthetics, but all you did was ask if they had black dye, in an inquiry to accuracy. You then mentioned that was a hood after the fact, and I sent to mention that it's not accurate.

I am sorry to burst your bubble. I am sure you will look great by larp standards.

>>9922556
No, you asked if they had black dye. We have almost no extant or written records of black clothing. It was used near exclusively for embroidery and leather.

You are welcome to thing that it looks nice by modern standards, but you can't claim any accuracy.