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Ye Merry Olde Threadbarede.
Good eve, fair mistress. It is I, Halvdan The Tunic-wearer!
(sigh) How now, Halvdan. Thy tunic is indeed truly wondrous, so pleated and blousen it is.
Pray thee Theresa of Cambridge, hast thou ever seen a Croatian Shirt as pleasing to thy eyes?
N'er.
Forsooth! Perchance thou wouldst enjoy laying thou hand upon my sleeve?
Nay.
Yon chickens do cluck so merrily. Methinks they too find my tunic to be most splendid!
Verily. (rolls eyes)
Ah, pray pardon me for prating on about my wondrous tunic. But enow about me, let us speak of thou. What dost thou think of me?
I said, what dost thou...hark! Hark now! Where...where goest thou, fair maiden? Pray thee, do not scamper away so! I crave your pardon, return! Return!
What? What dost thou say? Thou thinks I art a...what?? Well, fie on thee, poxy harlot! Fie on thee!
Hmph. Why dost I always strike out with all the pretty maidens....
Posted by Mary on September 26, 2006 | Permalink
Comments
Wait-isn't he wearing the same identical dress she is...only tucked in?
Posted by: Ellie | Sep 26, 2006 1:25:46 PM
Not to be a post-hog but isn't he actually wearing the same dress, shoes AND tights as her...what gives...
Posted by: ellie | Sep 26, 2006 1:28:00 PM
The saucy wench looks like she is about to whack Haldvan the Tunic Wearer with that milk jug she's holding.
Posted by: | Sep 26, 2006 1:57:16 PM
What's the deal with those shoes? I swear I saw the exact same style in the Naturalizer store at the outlet mall a couple of weeks ago. Those shoes are not very folksey or very Croatian if they are made in a big Naturalizer factory in China. Aren't real folkwear shoes supposed to be hand-made by an old, white-haired cobbler who wears spectacles or by tiny elves who sneak into his shop in the middle of the night?
Posted by: Sputnik | Sep 26, 2006 2:06:07 PM
See! It was stuff like this that made my Gramma' run off with that Portuguese sailor and get the hell out of Poland.
Posted by: Inky | Sep 26, 2006 3:19:47 PM
....Oh and:
"Thy tunic is indeed truly wondrous, so pleated and blousen it is."
Had me spittin' coffee! Classic line.
Posted by: Inky | Sep 26, 2006 3:22:30 PM
I rather like this garment. I have a boyfriend, he plays the flute, quite nice a person, not sissyfied, just artistic. He'd look nice it that there shirt. Is something strange happening to me? Am I going nuts or something? Maybe I've been staying home too much. But honestly, I like the shirt. Does this scream, "Get therapy, get therapy, get therapy" ? or what ?
Posted by: Iz4u | Sep 26, 2006 4:20:07 PM
Well, of course...before his 'n her matching sweaters....his 'n her matching tunics - makes sense to me. That hat really sets Halvdan off...
Posted by: Susan | Sep 26, 2006 4:30:28 PM
Iz4u, I see it this way. In times of conservative regimes, there is a much stronger emphasis on gender dimorphism in terms of appearance and behavior. In other words, there's more concern about (the fiction of) there being great differences between boys and girls.
In my world, it seems that it's just like belly buttons; some of us have innies and some of us have outties. Most of the differences are learned behaviors, including clothing.
Some men look good in stuff like this, others don't. I don't look right in tailored suits, heels, or shorts. I am a woman who looks better in my hippie dresses and Birkenstocks. Almost anything else feels (and looks)like drag.
Gods, I _do_ go on...
Posted by: anneonymousone | Sep 26, 2006 4:36:54 PM
Halvdan, why doth your tunic flap so in thy rear? Pray, what is thy stench?!
Posted by: Sharon | Sep 26, 2006 4:40:57 PM
And vot ist that on thy head Halvdan? Is it a hat or the bucket I was using to collect yonder chicken chit?
Me thinks it is the bucket! Now I will have to use the pretty little scarf from my head. My mudda said she needed lots of chicken chit to keep the fire going tonight.
Posted by: beryl | Sep 26, 2006 5:06:20 PM
A Maiden? I thought she was a zombie, myself..
Posted by: Aly | Sep 26, 2006 5:17:28 PM
The disgusted look on her face tells me one thing and one thing only. She not into men she's into chickens and she's waiting form "him" to leave so one of them will jump up her skirt.
Posted by: Moonshine | Sep 26, 2006 7:33:49 PM
So the guy in my college comp class who asked me what I thought of his (boring) leather jacket was actually trying to make time with me? Ugh. I'm gonna go shower now.
Posted by: Minya, Warrior Seamstress | Sep 26, 2006 9:03:48 PM
Let me just add that to get those tiny pleats nice and even, you need the right tools, a tidy work space and guts.
Posted by: Melissa | Sep 27, 2006 4:26:59 AM
Maybe she's just jealous that *he* has a nose.
Posted by: Allen | Sep 27, 2006 9:51:01 AM
it's a typo it should read cretin shirt
Posted by: punxxi | Sep 27, 2006 11:27:11 AM
Alas, Halvdan, thy tunic is aye blousen and e'en pleated to mine eye, but it removeth not the shame of thy nose of Michael of Jackson, which doth appear to be misshapen and vexed. Hath thou an ointment, or e'en a sharpened blade, for that montrousity?
When thou hast repaired thy extremity, then thee and I and mine chickens shalt speak again, mayhap, if my chickens doth approve of thy alterations. (And a help it wouldst be if thou did remove my grandmere's cap from off thy head.)
Posted by: Kathryn | Sep 27, 2006 11:54:59 AM
Genius. Pure genius.
Posted by: Heather | Sep 27, 2006 12:45:37 PM
I must be the only ex-belly dancer in THIS crowd. Folkwear was the only reliable source for patterns for harem pants, Egyptian shirts, and other Middle Eastern costume necessities. I must have 5 or 6 of 'em stashed away in my used-to-be-young-and-much-thinner box.
They also had racy Victorian undergarment patterns.
You people haven't lived!
Posted by: Marcia | Sep 27, 2006 1:10:16 PM
"racy Victorian undergarment patterns"
Methinks this is a most curious, nay even intriguing thought.
Posted by: | Sep 27, 2006 3:36:49 PM
He's got some serious Stephen Tyler lips going on...
Posted by: toiletpaper | Sep 27, 2006 4:00:59 PM
If you ask me, he looks like Jimi Hendrix
Posted by: barb | Sep 27, 2006 5:06:07 PM
Looks like he's gonna impress her with some underarm farting sounds in a sec...woohoo.
Posted by: Burns | Sep 27, 2006 5:08:53 PM
Forsooth! I too am intrigued by the mention of "racy Victorian undergarment patterns." Ye Merry Olde Threadbarede hath already played host to ye olde "Pantyhose Crafts Week" so many yarns ago. When shall Ye Merry Olde Threadbarede play host to a week full of corsets, bloomers, and other such unmentionable items from ages past? Pray tell me it shall be soon, kind ladies!
Posted by: | Sep 27, 2006 5:43:50 PM
forsooth, wouldst not *racy Victorian undergarments* be an oxymoroneth? pray tell
Posted by: encor | Sep 27, 2006 8:38:55 PM
You have access to Folkwear patterns and the Croatian shirt's the only one up? Come on! They've got dybbuk patterns!
Posted by: Liz | Sep 27, 2006 8:55:08 PM
Ah, Folkwear. The innumerable and oft-times unfortunate uses of. Back in the 70s, my mother made my father shirts of this ilk, he with the Lennon glasses and his mustache braided into his beard. Is this why everybody wigged out and went yuppie?
On another note, is the Amazon Dry Goods catalog still around? They used to have all the Folkwear patterns pretaining to petticoats, corsets,and bloomers. Strangely fascinatin'.
Posted by: Infantkittensyringe | Sep 27, 2006 10:39:07 PM
Why on earth does he have women's shoes on? He does look like Steven Tyler. Great, now I have "Dude Looks Like a Lady" stuck in my head. Gee, thanks, toiletpaper!
Posted by: Desiree | Sep 28, 2006 9:11:40 AM
OH My Gosh! A blast from the past ... I must confess...
I truly sewed from this pattern. The year was 1983. What was I thinking? I was 20 years old, 5'7" and 120 pounds at most, and I sewed this massive peasant dress out of muslin, only to transform myself into . . . the blob from Wisconsin. I quickly sold it at a campus garage sale, to a woman who most definitely weighed 300 plus lbs.
Last week, I ordered a dressform on-line, so as to eliminate this nagging "fit issue" still resolving itself from two decades back.
Posted by: dris | Sep 28, 2006 11:42:03 PM
Laugh now, you may, but some chortle all the way to the bank. The Renaissance Faire boothies that make clothing of this type can sell 'blousen' at a minimum of $50!
Factor in costume rentals per day, and the bills get paid. Make these garments and sell them on the more 'hippier' sites than eBay and you'll be counting twenties as fast as your fingers can stitch, in time.
Saving nine, with luv for all
corky
Posted by: corkman | Sep 29, 2006 12:55:29 PM
I love chortling all the way to the bank!!
Posted by: Melissa | Sep 30, 2006 10:40:24 AM
At first I thought this looked like a cool shirt to make to wear to the Thanksgiving Dinner in the woods with the local Natives. I was so thrilled that I had a pattern somethin like this in my old trunk in the attic, and plenty of old muslin sheets, but after tangling myself up in bloussen, sholder plackets, yokes, and pleats I just said "no, JuJu, this is too hard to make, you don't have to be the smashing hit of the party every time you go out. Just wear a bedspread and nice silk ribbon for a belt and you'll look just fine. Tra la la. Prityh me.
Posted by: JuJu | Sep 30, 2006 1:20:01 PM
"Halvdan, my love, art thou certain this plan will work?"
"Aye, oh sweet one of the vacant eyes. I shall hide several chickens in the folds of my strangely nonmasculine blouse, and thou shalt carry a few more under thine ample skirtage, and together we shall smuggle all the chickens across the border."
"O, Halvdan, thy bravery dost arouse me. Take me now and ravish me in thy skinny arms!"
"Not now, dear. My rooster is about to crow."
Posted by: Lois | Oct 4, 2006 1:28:55 PM
Hey, no cleavage?! That's the most fun aspect of Ren fest clothes!
Ren Fest - Titties and Beer
Posted by: Jenzilla | Oct 4, 2006 2:23:06 PM
Google Folkwear, and you'll find that they are still out there. The business has been through some hard times, but they have survived. And, they can show you how to make a flamenco dress.
Posted by: Cheryl | Oct 14, 2006 5:25:45 PM
what in the world is that behind them that Halvdans got his arm hangin on, or attatched to or something dumb like that? it extends clear across the background like a big branch with something sticking out behind it. Do I need new glasses or does the artist who did the drawing need new glassees? Oh vexation, vexation, all these tough questions.
Posted by: underwaterblues | Oct 14, 2006 11:34:47 PM
I'm laughing so hard I have tears in my eyes.
Posted by: chasmyn | Oct 19, 2006 9:34:38 PM
Miss Theresa she done look a bit like that there Jackoline Kennedy sort a. But it coodn't be, cuz Jackie hada nose if'n I 'member crectly.
Posted by: oh oh | Oct 21, 2006 2:02:25 AM
"Well, fie on thee, poxy harlot! Fie on thee!" LMAO! I was laughing before I got to this line, but this one just unhinged me! Love your contribution!
Posted by: Jen | Oct 26, 2006 5:46:47 AM
I swear i had the EXACT same shirt that guy was wearing, in about 1985. it was blue rayon and looked awesome with my black leggings, crush boots and chunky jewelry.
Posted by: misstasty | Nov 16, 2006 2:19:27 AM
That company still makes patterns...
I really hope that people didn't wear those for actual everyday wear... as far as I know, they mainly make patterns for historical reenactments and costumes and stuff. Those shirts look a lot like the ones the guys in my Slavic dance classes ended up wearing. With big, flowing, baggy red pants. Ok, I'm not helping the situation any, am I?
Man, I hope nobody was actually willing to be caught dead in that in public aside from a costume...
Posted by: jerseycow6 | Mar 25, 2007 9:25:58 PM
hes wearing the same thing as the girl, only with pants
BE AFRAID!!
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