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Noord Holland Again, or Partlet Magic

by Margaret | Nov 25, 2017 | Margaret's Completed Projects

Last year I got interested in a the regional costumes of Noord Holland, affectionately known as the "Cheese Girls". I recreated that outfit and wrote about it here. Because I was under some time constraints, I cobbled that outfit together from pieces I'd made over the...

Clothing the Low Countries Goes to the Movies!

by Margaret | Sep 9, 2017 | misc

It's not very often that English language movies are made about our favorite time and place, but this year's Tulip Fever is a rare exception. (It's set in 1636, so close enough.) Based on Deborah Moggach's novel of the same name, the movie follows the tangled love...

New Resource: a timeline of artists and the social classes they painted

by Karinne | May 1, 2017 | Artists

I woke up this morning to a question in the Medieval Low-Countries Reenactment group on Facebook: "I'm looking for references for Netherlandish clothing, and keep running into walls and dead ends. Anyone familiar with the Netherlandish styles and how they compared to...

New clothes for the site

by Karinne | Jan 1, 2017 | Announcements

Just doing a quick site redesign, to make it cleaner, punchier and easier to navigate. If you see stuff changing, don't fret, it's us, not you.

Hi, we’re Margaret and Karinne, two women with a mutual pocket option register joy in the fashions worn by women in Flanders and the Netherlands in the long 16th century. We enjoy puzzling over how Dutch and Flemish women constructed their clothing, especially that strange item known as a huik and the intricately starched headwear which is iconic for this time and place.

Karinne covers 1480 – 1530, whilst Margaret covers the late 1500s into 1610s.

You’ll find our projects, research and theories throughout wwww.pocketoption.in the site.