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The 'male' English National Dress alludes to the colours of St George. The ‘female’ English National Dress design employs the light Blue of St Edmund the Old English King. Both orders of dress are practical, stylish, yet modest and easy to make. They use wool, leather, steel, linen and simple dyes. Solid silver jewellery is worn. For those who wish, man-made materials can be used. Simple hand making with square and rectangular cloth cutting is core to this to cut down cost. The knife in the custom made leather sheath hanging on the front is called a Seax. It was worn by the Old English as a sign of being free born English.
Both designs are shown with the models (one from the north of England, and one from the south) wearing their own footwear. There are no hard and fast rules to the footwear. Here they wear ground boots as they are safe, practical, unisex, and well made. But imagine a wedding version of this English National Dress.
Embroidery and cutting pattens can be found if you read on. It is down to you. Imagine wedding versions of this. Perhaps replacing the light Blue with White. Nothing is hard and fast. But stick to the basic design.
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