"Elizabethan breeches" Topic

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.

Didn't mean to post this here. Editors, please delete.

Actually, I did mean to post it to the main Renaissance board, but not the Battle Reports, so please leave this post on the main board.

Puffling pants!

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I believe the item of clothing in question is (are?) "Slops".

From what I understand they are very much a garment associated with sailors. I normally see them associated with a later period, but I cannot speak to that with certainty.

16th century sailors tended to wear looser pants than the landlubbers (landsknechts in pluderhosen would be an exception).

TAG just released a few packs of late 16th century Dutch sea beggars, who look like fine examples of the period sailor dress.

I now think they could be 'galligaskins' or painted to represent those and as such would be ideal for lower class land troops.

I've seen that illustrated a lot with sailors, so I'd say, yeah, a "seadog" thing.

There was an article on Elizabethan crews in Wargames Illustrated ages ago, with plates depicting a lot of such pants.

Bad grammer, I suppose. I'm tired.

I think this picture from 1611 illustrates Galligaskins or 'Common French Hose'.

They are not exactly shorts, or at least not open at the bottom.

Hopefully I can represent this with paint or perhaps the addition of a little green stuff.