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01 We were there

The Typical Tudor? Research for The Typical Tudor, Jane and Ninya’s follow-up to The Tudor Tailor, has been underway for a long time. We’ve been promising to update the book and add new research based largely on our database of clothing and accessories drawn from wills, inventories and accounts dated 1485 to 1603. Perceptions that The Tudor Tailor was mostly about elite dress led us to focus on lower and middle class dress as worn by “The Typical Tudor” in our ongoing research. Some early insights into what ordinary people wore came from the many volumes of Essex wills (helpfully transcribed by Emmison) and we were able to hint at these in The Tudor Tailor. However, when we look at any source material – pictures, artefacts, documents – we must acknowledge that we can’t be sure whether any of it is typical of the people who lived in the Early Modern era because the vast majority of what once existed is gone. Even the most robust interrogation of the best evidence provides only a shadowy glimpse of what people wore and who those people were. It is for this reason that we are interpreting the material for our new book in as wide and inclusive a way as possible. All averages are based on a broad sweep of data which includes outliers as well as those firmly in the mainstream. We know that our readers do not conform to a stereotype. People who reconstruct and wear historic dress come in all shapes and sizes and from all creeds and colours. The Tudor Tailor is a staunch supporter of Reenactors of Colour, a welcome initiative on Facebook (  / reenactors-of-color-2403031296590550  ) which aims at better representation of all people in the past and the present. We have invited the originator of that group Harlie Des Roches (aka Harls Barkley) to test patterns for new garments and model them in The Typical Tudor. Harlie has graciously accepted and will be on a plane to the UK in March to join a photoshoot for the new book. She has been keeping a vlog of her progress in fundraising for her European tour (https://www.gofundme.com/get-harls-to...) and working on the garments she will wear. Watch her progress in detail on her own page (  / my-not-so-typical-tudor-experience-