Usually, I am pretty good with medieval terminology, and the general gist of how garb works, etc.
However, here I am completely lost. i don't even know what this style of legging is called (in before "those are shorts, **** lolzorz!"). You always see them in depictions of Spanish Conquistadors, and other block prints of the period, but I have no idea how to make them in the way that they puff out and have depth. I want to make at least some top leggings in this style to compliment a thirty years' war look, but I don't even know what kind of materials to look for.
I'd imagine that the outer stripes would have to be heavier than the inner ones, so the entire thing doesn't just curl up...
Thank you!