cold weather garb.

[Quickie]

with ockfest comin up i was hoping to get some ideas and pictures of decent cold weather garb. so ......... go

[LoganSteele]

I have a couple pairs of winnegas (leg wraps) and they help keep me warm.

[Aimish]

If you don't mind wearing not-garb stuff under your garb, you can hide a long sleeve shirt or 2 and some sweatpants under your garb.

On a slightly related note, Okfest was like 90 degrees last year. That **** was crazy.

[Todo]

I hear Underarmor is pretty cool

[Arrakis]

Long sleeved tunic + either other tunics or winter underarmor.

Worsted wool fighting pants + wool winingas (or not) with either nothing, long underwear/thermals, or sweats under them.

Win at garb.

[Nuri]

A good fitting flannel tunic is your friend. Go make at least one. It kept me warm and toasty throughout the random freezing events we've had lately.

[Derian]

Go for melton/coating wool lined with linen if you're hardcore.

[Arrakis]

Go for melton/coating wool lined with linen if you're hardcore.

My new cloak is exactly this. I'm going to work on a wicked hood for it today.

[DragoonAntoinette]

Cold Weather Garb:

Cloaks are handy, you can make them out of almost anything, you can pick a nice "period" fabric for the outside, and a nice warm flannel, or fleece for the inside, put a hood on it, and some nice clasps, and time, and you have a kick * piece of warm garb. Photoed below my cloak, its is really really warm, and it can also double as a blanket at night...it is from this pattern, it is letter A...http://www.simplicity.com/p-2269-costumes.aspx..it says female, but cloaks are unisex really, but if your picky here is a male cloak pattern...http://www.simplicity.com/p-2272-misses ... tumes.aspx

Full Cloak:


Inside of Cloak:


Hood of Cloak:


You can also find pretty awesome boots, that are plain enough to wear at event, don't look super modern, and are warm like the pair I have, they are if a mukluk design:


OR you could get mukluks, any of these I would hazard a guess would pass as garb and keep you warm: http://store.manitobah.ca/collections/mukluks

The cowl, is a great piece of garb for keeping you head and neck warm, you can put it on under or over you garb:


The capot is a coat for cold weather, in this photos case made of a fabric called Melton cloth:


Other things like this toque and muff are warm and period:



Other ways to stay warm at events where the weather is chilly are to take a blanket and walk around wearing it, it was often done in times past, bring simple woolen mitts or leather mitts that are lined with something fluffy, warm socks, long underwear (tops and bottoms), make simple sleep pants out of wool, flannel, or fleece to wear under your garb, don’t wear you shoes to bed, sleep more then one person to a tent, bring something to keep you off the ground, throw a tarp under your tent to keep the frost from creeping in, go to the washroom/bathroom/restroom before bed, so you don’t have to venture out at night.

[Thorondor]

On a slightly related note, Okfest was like 90 degrees last year. That **** was crazy.

Wasn't it below freezing the year before? Or was it 3 years ago now that it was colder than sin at night...

[Arrakis]

New cloak and hood:



**** is mad warm. Fulled Shetland wool from Fabricmartfabrics.com lined with linen from same. Still needs some finishing work on the cloak edges and some embroidery for maximum awesome. But still.

Pardon goofy smile. I don't always Herp, but when I do, I Herp Derp.

[DragoonAntoinette]

Looks awesome Arrakis! A simple very awesome way to finish the rough edges of that type of wool is a Blanket stitch, or kick * trim, what ever works, but it looks awesome!

[Arrakis]

Looks awesome Arrakis! A simple very awesome way to finish the rough edges of that type of wool is a Blanket stitch, or kick * trim, what ever works, but it looks awesome!

Thanks! I was thinking: blanket for the raw edge, then chain, then maybe a simple pattern picked out in stem.

I didn't pin the right front opening edge right, so it ended up stretching a bit and causes it to curl under just a bit. Oh well. If it bothers me too much I'll just rip the seam out and fix it.