Need to make a Tudor costume for a boy

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Hi, my DS (6) needs to go in costume as a Tudor in 2 weeks time. Have some brocade curtains could fashion into a cloak and he could probably borrow sister's black leggings. Thought I could make a ruff from crepe paper. Any other ideas?

Codpiece or is that too realistic?

OMG that's ambitious - the teachers don't make it easy these days. You could add a Blackadder beard and some Ugg style boots.

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Beret with a peacock feather.
I dare you to make a codpiece.

I vote for the codpiece. The top of an eggbox with some glitter should do it

I made a cloak and a jerkin with those ribbon striped sleeves a couple of years ago for the same thing.

And we made and then dyed a maid's cap - using elderberries for the colour and then a unique fixative supplied by ds!!!

I made a Tudor costume for my neighbour's boy last year, copied from the Horrible Histories book and it was briliant

Can't remember the details, but basically a brightly coloured pair of leggings, then a plain pair of trousers over it with slits cut into it so that the bright leggings show through. Tie the cuffs of the trousers just under the knees with ribbons to get that balloony-trouser effect that was so popular in Tudor times. On the torso he wore hid dad's white shirt tucked into the trousers with the cuffs folded up to again create the balloon effect. Then a velour waistcoat which came with a magician's outfit, but obviously this can be omitted.

End result was kind of like this

www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/04/06/showtime_s_the_tudors_is_back_

I had to make late medieval/Tudor style costumes for an event the other week. Depends how authentic you need to be, but the leggings/tabard/belt combo works really well - would suggest raiding charity shops for belts/old waistcoats. A cloak covers a multitude of sins as well. Get thee to a charity shop!

My DH's mother (a history teacher) sent him and his sister to a fancy dress as the axe man and Ann Boleyn. She wore a dress over her head so looked like she had no head and he had on....well an axe man's outfit - with axe!

I bet noone else really got it but they thought it funny! Bit gory though.

fifitot, that's excellent!

Lutyens - OMG!!! That's an amazing result! :o

Lutyens,
Phew! I'll make a codpiece for that Tudor chap any day.

He is a bit delicious isn't he? Henry Cavill is th eonly reason I watch The Tudors on BBC! But in the latest season they've gone and covered him up and given him a beard. Spoilsports!

Raggedy beggar boys are pretty similar whether its Victorian or Tudor day I find, speaking as a parent who really cba. I have a chopped up pair of cords, a charity shop shirt with the collar cut off and accessorize with string belts and mud/burnt cork for suitably poverty stricken effect

Wow, thanks for all the suggestions. Lutyens, you are a genius. EmmaHewett - agree with the cloak, boys love them, could be a Tudor superhero .

Sadly, having dressed as a nobleman on a school visit to the local NT property, the DS refuses to be a pauper. At least if he went as a serf I could recycle into a Beast Quest outfit when Book Week rolls around, ah well.

If only the school could persuade Henry Cavill to come and judge the outfits it would make all the hard work worth it

Forgot to ask, Melted, didn't the fixative smell a bit?

You aren't in year 6 at BHS by any chance are you ?
On the 15th I have to produce a 40's film star, a Victorian beggar child and a tudor princess with all that spare time/cash we have right now.

My class dressed as Tudors today; by wearing oversized white t-shirts with a large belt. They looked great. A couple of the girls came in something rather more exotic (and rather Roman) looking but the majority enjoyed comparing their belts and fastenings!