Elizabethan Mafia

This was my first attempt at bias cut 16th Century stockings, although I had wanted to try my hand at making them for quite some time. Like my first pair of cloth hosen, they were much easier than I had expected that I feel rather silly for not attempting them earlier. I based my pattern off of several extant examples depicted in Janet Arnold's Patterns of Fashion 4.  I draped my pattern for them directly on my husband's leg using muslin. I made up a muslin mock up to tweak the fit slightly before making these final linen ones. The stockings came out very nicely and I hope soon to have pictures of my husband actually wearing them. :) They are machine sewn with no visible machine stitching. I have plans to make fully handsewn hosen for both of us soon and I'm planning on embroidering the clocks for mine.  A more in depth article covering my research and construction techniques can be found at Foundations Revealed.