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Viking Shift Underdress Tutorial | How to Sew Basic Medieval Underwear
Today I am making myself a shift to eventually go with a Viking apron dress! In later centuries, a shift became known as a smock or chemise. It is the layer worn closest to the body to help absorb bodily oils. Due to the the cost of making fabric, patterns for clothes were very efficient in their use of fabric.
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Since linen is difficult to dye, linen undergarments (such as a shift) were left undyed. Danish Viking women preferred plain undergarments, while Swedish Viking women preferred pleats. Neckholes were typically triangular or rounded. Shifts typically had godets (large triangles) on the sides to allow for a fuller skirt, along with gussets (also triangles) in the armpits to allow for more range of motion with the sleeves.
0:00 | Introduction
5:36 | Making the Shift
14:34 | Ending
Suggested Items for Purchase:
- Linen fabric: https://amzn.to/3XK5MIv
- Wrist Pin Holder: https://amzn.to/3JLAmf4
- Tomato Pin Cushion: https://amzn.to/44fj6qN
Suggested Links:
- Drea Leed's Smock Pattern Generator: http://www.elizabethancostume.net/smockpat/
- Hilde Thunem's Recreating Viking Clothing: https://urd.priv.no/viking/
- Rannvaeig Orrarmr Eskilskona's Pinterest page: https://www.pinterest.com/rannvaeig/
- Rannvaeig Orrarmr Eskilskona's Viking Women in Russia: https://digitalalexandria.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/viking-women-in-russia.pdf
Works Cited:
- Catherine of Aragon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Aragon#/media/File:Catherine_of_Aragon_(1485-1536).jpg
- Anne Boleyn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Boleyn#/media/File:AnneBoleynHever.jpg
- Viking Shift Vs. Elizabethan Smock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGHWdHI4n_c
- A Lady's Viking Outfit (my daughter's ensemble): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fN3ztjSjxk
- Glass Bead Making: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoWf4vj78IU
Picture Credit:
- Viking Longhouse: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f0/42/de/f042dedf9aa1108288c02ce87aaf7123.jpg
- Viking Apron Dress: https://www.pinterest.fr/pin/35677022033374536/
- William Short's Clothing in the Viking Age: http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/daily_living/text/clothing.htm
- Drea Lead's Smock and T-Tunic Pattern Generator: http://elizabethancostume.net/smockpat/
For anyone curious about what exactly the 'SCA' is -- The Society for Creative Anachronism is an international, non-profit educational organization that studies and recreates the medieval and Renaissance years of 600-1600AD.
For more information and to locate your local branch, please check out http://www.sca.org
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Music credit:
Augury by PeriTune | http://peritune.com
Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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