-colouring was a multi-colored garment that often had one side embroidered, based on the colours. Mi-parti was the dividing of clothes vertically into two different colours, which was most popular in tights.
Dagging was a type of design at the edge of garments. It was slashed into shapes such as scallops, crosses or points. These would often be seen on the chaperon, which were a caped hood with a liripipe (a long tail).
The pourpoint was a short jacket with tight sleeves buttoned from the elbow to the wrist. These buttons were not only used for making the sleeves tighter but for the ability to lace armor on. It was also worn under the cote-hardie, which was a garment worn tight fitting around the shoulders, waist and hips. The cote-hardie was often dagged and worn by men and women.
The doublet was also a short jacket that could be sleeved or sleeveless. It could be worn under a close fitting pourpoint but when worn as an outer garment, would be padded and have a short skirt.
The houppelande was a loose comfortable gown that usually had bell shaped sleeves with dagging on the edges. Though worn by both men and women, women always wore it at full length while men sometimes wore it shorter.
In addition gothic fashion had some interesting accessories such as poularies/crackows, pomanders and the gorget.
Gothic woman wearing a hennin.
Poularies or crackows were long-tipped shoes that later on grew so much in length it had to be tied to the knees.
The gorget was a garment worn under the chin and tucked under the neckline of a gown, which was later developed into a metal piece of armor.
Women wore pomanders a ball like pendant containing a sponge of perfume that would be worn from a necklace or girdle. They also wore tippets, which was a band sewn around the elbow of a cote-hardie with the end hanging as a streamer.
It was popular for women to wear head pieces such as the reticulation, escoffin, hennin and the coif. The reticulation was a decorative metal cage structure used to hold their hair while the escoffin was a tall and heavily decorated headdress sometimes shaped like two horns and usually worn as a veil. The hennin was a cone or steeple like headdress with a veil and the coif was a close fitting cap tied under the chin.
This outfit was part of the Givenchy Spring 2010 ready-to-wear fashion show in Paris. The collection had a lot of draping, leggings, kilts and prints. While the collection itself was not inspired by the gothic era, I felt some of the garments had a lot of elements, which derived from this era’s fashion.
The clearest feature on this outfit that reflected key features from the gothic era is the headpiece, which can be compared to the popular gothic headpiece, the hennin. Though that piece is very literal I think they modernised it by rounding out the point and giving it a type of alien look, often associated with the ‘future’.
Another prominent style feature in this outfit would be the tights, which are mi-parti. As explained above mi-parti is the dividing of clothes vertically into two different colours. I believe the tights in this outfit are modernised by placing the colours is different angles and excluding the traditional bright colours, which would look dated, and using the same colour but in different fabrics. The use of different fabrics also updated the outfit as the shiny type of fabric looks manmade, which would not have been available at that time.
The short dress placed on top of the tights, which was also a common look in gothic fashion, mirrors the women’s houppelande as it features a ‘v’ neck shape and a belted high waist. I think this dress was modernised by shortening the length of the skirt as well as the sleeves.
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Novictoriaville, day 1 | doberman pizza.
I finally woke up when the dreaded tongue-monster scampered in and tried to lick me to death. Then, Spider-man insisted I get up and catch evildoers with him. It took a few minutes of half-asleep hiding beneath my blankets before I actually did get up. groggily, I sat up and tickled the excitable Shih Tzu with the long tongue to keep him from jumping on my face, all the while promising Alexandre I would help him catch a nice bowl of cereal until the evildoers showed up. The day today was pretty good, all in all, but it seemed even quieter than yesterday. The pace is slow for me here, and I really feel like I’m on vacation and not serving humankind or something.
After breakfast, I spent the morning at the Victoriaville Loblaws, selling raffle tickets to benefit Solidarité Nord-Sud Bois-Francs, a local development organization. Several Bahá’ís in the area are involved in their activities. Anyway, I was replacing Geneviève for the morning (headache, no sleep last night, etc). While there, I caught up with Constance, one of the local Baha’is, and Sylvie Gendron – who I lived with for much of my stay in Victoriaville. It went well. We sold 33 tickets in 3 hours. Not bad, eh? Heh. While at the Loblaws, I recognized lots of people I had worked with back when they were opening up the Loblaws in Victoriaville. That job lasted about a month, sandwiched somewhere in between the cranberries and the coffee.
Once that was done, I had lunch and decided to take a walk to downtown Victoriaville and take pictures of some of the places I knew there. That was cool. Now, downtown Victoriaville isn’t big. It’s nothing compared to downtown Ottawa. You can pretty much walk across it in less than twenty minutes. But that’s part of what makes it so cool – it’s tiny, it has character, and everybody’s friendly and glad to see you. In downtown Ottawa, say Hi to someone and you might as well be trying to convert them or rob them or something. Or both. Anyway, I digress (again). Lots of pictures. Check for some of them on the photoblog.
Afterwards, I visited some more old friends – for instance, Stéphane and Sylvie, a devoted and courageous Baha’i couple who are raising an autistic child. Ruth, an aboriginal woman and long-time friend of the Bahá’ís, who apparently declared her faith in Bahá’u’lláh just yesterday (wow!) Martin Yelle of the Centre Emmaüs, who conducted the gospel choir I sang in way back when. Stéphane gave me a copy of a spoken word CD he recently published – 9 hours’ worth of philosophical musings phrased in understandable and accessible language so everybody can catch it. Which would interest this Martin except that the latter speaks no French. Sad. Before I drove back to Gen & Craig’s, I drove up to the top of Mont Arthabaska, soaked in the view, and took some sadly inadequate pictures. I’ll be posting a panorama once I get home, though. We’ll see if it’s any good.
In the evening I spent time with Gen & Craig, and Gen’s mother who came to sleep over. She usually stays in Québec (City), but she’s actually working in a small town not far from here – Plessisville – so it makes sense for her to drive fifteen minutes more to be with family a little. In the evening, Gen put Alexandre to bed, while the rest of us drove down the street and over the bridge to play, um, golf. Actually, it was just a driving range, not a real golf course. I’ve never played golf before now, and now that I’ve tried it out, I feel safe in saying that it’s the most ridiculous game on the face of the earth. Give me some basketball for crying out