New A&S Project - Black Wool Doublet and Trunk Hose ca. 1620

Have decided to make a suit consisting of trunk hose and doublet because I want to use this really loud fabric I have. First step is making a practice suit out of fabric I don't care about as much, because the first try never really works out the way you want it to - ergo, suit will be plain black. 100% wool was not available on short notice, so bought a wool/viscose blend that is taking forever to dry in my dryer and generating a really astonishing amount of lint. (Black linen was also not available on short notice, so am using 100% unnatural fibre "linen look"). Finished suit in black will end up looking a lot like this suit, so fashionably worn by Cormac at Montengarde Twelfth Night 2008.

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