The Tudor Revolution

It may surprise many of you that until last winter I had never worn the Tudor warming layer called a petticoat underneath my various Tudor gowns. While living in Oklahoma I moved into a home that was built in the 1930's. The windows all appeared to be original to the house, and despite updated gas heating being installed the old vents had never been filled in. Even after adding weather stripping there was still a draft sometimes. What is my point of this anecdote? for the first time since 2011, I lived in a place that was cold enough I might want an additional layer and could comfortably experiment with the addition to my silhouette. When you daily high for weeks at a time is 20 degrees, a petticoat magically seems like a marvelous idea! Remembering how warm my red wool kirtle based of Peter Brughel the Younger's paintings were, and from period sources I knew the garment had to be wool. I selected a bright red wool I had purchased at JoAnns on clearance. Its a tropical ...