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Topic: How do seamstresses or tailors deal with fat people in the 15th century
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Wolfes Company
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Member # 167
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posted 06-05-2001 09:08 PM
   
I am fat, well not extremly fat, rotund, or obese, but pleasantly plump, maybe 20 lbs over what would be nice.After looking at paintings of 15th century men in their doublets, I wonder what people who didn't have that perfect looking narrow waist did to stay with the fashion. I realize that most of the time you are wearing your coat over your doublet. But there are times when say you are doing hard physical labor or working over a fire that this is not practical or safe. Were the patterns expanded to make the person have that shape or is there some sort of undergarment to hold you into that shape?
Please help
Steve 
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J.K. Vernier
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Member # 123
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posted 06-06-2001 02:12 PM
You should keep in mind when looking at medieval pictures, that the artists tended to conventionalize people's figures, and in the 15th century the convention for men was very skinny, ribcage and waist almost impossibly defined. Unless you are very thin to begin with, achieving that shape by trussing yourself into a corrective doublet will be disastrously uncomfortable, and you will spend your day at an event looking like you are undergoing an enema (How do I know this? Don't ask): a new definition for Fashion Victim.My most recent doublet, which I consider quite successful, emphasizes the little bit of waist I have, but it doesn't cut off breathing or leave bruises, etc. It is relatively snug, but not so confining that I can't wear it comfortably all day. Rest assured that not everyone in the 15th century looked like the people in the pictures, just as not everyone nowadays looks like the people on TV. 
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