I'm playing a gentle woman in a Shakespearean play.. WHAT DO I WEAR?

Question

Tomorrow, I'm performing a skit that my group and I put together. I am playing the gentlewoman, and I'm not sure what to wear. I need some ideas. Right now, I just have this scarf to put upon my head.. not sure about the outfit. Please help!

Answer 1

Clothes.

Answer 2

Something like this....

http://karenswhimsy.com/shakespeares-cos...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31...

http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/d...

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c247/h...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31...

Answer 3

If you've got to pull something from your closet...

Long skirt, plain blouse (raid your mom's closet? Attic? Grandmother's closet?)  No one really has an Elizabethan costume waiting in their closet!! :)

You're playing someone who is from an upper class? That's tough. Can you get a costume from your theater dept. ?

You could put some sort of jumper/dress over the top of a blouse and skit and get something like this:

http://www.marquise.de/en/1600/pics/1610...

I can't remember if the other poster with links had this one:

http://www.elizabethancostume.net/overvi...

Answer 4

You can wear a long blue dress.

Answer 5

considering all female parts were proformed by men in shakespeare's day, (in fact thats were the the word D.R.A.G. comes from, DRessed-As-Girl) If I were you I'd go in drag as a man. like a woman dressed as a man, but clearly still a woman, its just my opinion, but I think its a creative way to address your role, and adds a nice layer of historical context to your proformance.