SFWA Musketeers: Resourcesplease indicate if you are a SFWA member
First, an official Policy Statement from our Fearless Leader: "Don't rush out and beg/borrow/buy/have made your official fighting uniform yet. We will eventually--in good time and plenty of it before you need 'em--have all the specs done and available. Early birds may get the wrong worm." For a look at authentic period clothing, try The Maneige Royal, by Antoine De Pluvinel. Pub. by J.A. Allen 1989 London (translated edition) based on an edition published in 1626, by Gottfried Muller in Braunschweig, Germany. ISBN 0-85131-452-X It will cost you. Try looking at some of our scans from the book. Beware--it's slow loading!
The Deva Lifewear's Buccaneer shirt (www.devalifewear.com/mm5) is vaguely correct (some good point lace at the collar and cuff will solve all questions of correctness) and of very good quality. It's also of sufficiently heavy material that it won't get ripped up the first time a sword tip plough across your biceps. Deva's toll free order line is 1-800-222-8024. J. Peterman's also has a banded collar Ecuadoran shirt for $29.00 to which can be attached a big 17th century collar (with requisite lace, of course). J. Peterman's number is 1-800-231-7341.
The Rapier and Small Sword Page has some good link resources.
Three Elizabethan Fencing Manuals, edited by Jackson, pub. by Scholars' Reprints.
Renaissance Swordsmanship : The Illustrated Use of Rapiers and Cut-And-Thrust Swords , by John Clements, ISBN 0873649192
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