The Vallejo Music Theater has been sponsoring costume-related talks and workshops as a fundraiser (they hosted one of the Tudor Tailor presentations) and asked if I'd be interested in doing a set of lectures for them. So I'm doing a set of 3 lectures: a survey of surviving garments; "families" of garment structure and their development; and how to do costume research in under-documented cultures (using medieval Wales as the object lesson). The lectures will be on Saturday August 2 and I'll start doing some promotion soon. (As a fund-raiser for the theater, the fee isn't trivial, although I only get a token stipend ... and glory ... out of it.)

You're remembering correctly about Bathilde's robe -- the one I've made up is that black-and-white birdseye wool one that I wore last 12th night (over the embroidered tunic). The cut is definitely ... special. But it all works out once you get the trick of it.