Elizabethan breeches

[doctorphalanx]

The Foundry Sea Dogs and Swashbucklers range has figures with breeches which are *not* tied at the knee.

Is that just a seadog fashion, or would lower-class landlubbers venture abroad like that? I'm looking for contemporary corroboration.

[Lowtardog]

It was originally a Dutch naval fashion and they were called sloppes. A forerunner of bell bottoms https://goo.gl/images/3vQBjT

[doctorphalanx]

Thanks for that suggestion which would make them a naval garment. However, I'm wondering now if they are (or could be taken to be) 'galligaskins' which were worn by the lower classes, not just at sea. They were tied below the knee but much baggier than breeches.

[Lowtardog]

Thanks for that suggestion which would make them a naval garment. However, I'm wondering now if they are (or could be taken to be) 'galligaskins' which were worn by the lower classes, not just at sea. They were tied below the knee but much baggier than breeches.

I think they could be, what I did with mine was paint the lower legs as if wearing stockings (where the model wears shoes)

[doctorphalanx]

I think they could be, what I did with mine was paint the lower legs as if wearing stockings (where the model wears shoes)

I think that will be the way to go. I'm interested in doing some Reiver forces for 'Pikeman's Lament' using the Hoka Hey/Timeline miniatures and am planning a garrison force of pike and shot and Reivers of various classes. There would be well-armed and armoured family members (Forlorn Hope, Aggressive), less well-armed retainers (Clansmen) and armed servants (Clubmen). I think the Foundry figures would feed into these groups very well.