Eva's costuming page
Hi and welcome to my costuming page!
My closet
and personal space in the international community of historical costuming
fanatics.
While this page mostly deals with clothing from the period covered
by the SCA there are also some other historical periods represented, such as the
18th and 19th centuries. I have also recently become very interested in in 20th
century fashion to use for everyday wear; especially the 1940s and 1950s. The
20th century has thus got it's on gallery -small, but growing; you find it
below. I also have a blog
which mainly deals with 1940s and 50s fashion and clothing. If you for some
reason are interested in my thoughts on costuming, life in general and other
things that passes trough my mind, I also have a LiveJournal that you can
look at.
Well, who am I then?
Well, as
stated above; my name is Eva, the whole name being Eva I Andersson. I'm also
known as Fru Aleydis in the SCA, where I'm a member of the SCA shire of Gotvik in the Principality of Nordmark,
Kingdom of Drachenwald, but I can't say that I'm that active, real life taking
up too much time currently,I just go to a few events, mainly to the camp at
Visby medieval week.
Historical costuming is not just a hobby to me. Or rather, while the
costuming part is a hobby, the research isn't. I'm a historian by profession and
the subject of my PhD-dissertation was (surprise!) medieval clothing in Sweden
and Norway. My dissertation, which is called Kläderna och människan i
medeltidens Sverige och Norge (Clothing and the individual in medieval
Sweden and Norway) which contains an english summary as well as an abstract
can be found here I am
currently working on a project called "Clothes, Gender and Class 1500-1830",
which studies clothing in relation to perceptions of body, sex and status. One
result of this project is an article on Swedish women's manner of dress in the
16th century, which can be found in the 2011
issue of Costume I also teach History and Fashion history at the
University of Gothenburg.
I live in Gothenburg, Sweden. I'm married and
have twin daughters
born in August 1994 and another girl born the 12
of May 2004.
| Costume stuff | Other |
| Costume
gallery This is where I show some of the costumes I have done. I also give documentation and occasionally patterns. |
What's new? |
| My gallery of
twentieth century fashions
Here you find the "modern" clothes I've made, mainly from the 1940s and 1950s. | Contact
me I can't guarantee that I will answer all e-mails, I am rather busy with
my family, sewing and work and sometimes I forget e-mails I've gotten. But
I try to answer. |
| Dress
diaries Sometimes I make a diary of the construction of my outfits. This gives more opportunity to discuss sources and methods. | |
| Articles and research | |
| Links Some links I've found useful and good, with comments. I do not update this as often as I should and it is in no way complete. |
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| The A&S 50 Stash
challenge Where I will present 50 things crafted from my way too large fabric stash |