Christopher Columbus costume?

Question

Okay, I have to dress up as Christopher Columbus for school and I was wondering what I should wear...and if I should have a plastic sword.

Answer 1

"As Lester points out, none of the many existing portraits is remotely truthful. We must therefore turn to other sources. [...]Nothing is known about the wardrobe of Christopher Columbus, except for the fact that he dressed like a monk in the last stages of his life. Before that he probably wore clothes that were customary to well-to-do merchants and noblemen along the northern Mediterranean. These clothes can be examined from many North Italian, Early Renaissance frescos: a soft hat or cap (brimless or with the brim turned up), a doublet (called farsetto, a padded undercoat with puffed upper sleeves) with a shirt and shorts underneath, a pleated overcoat (i.e. a cioppa with sleeves, or a giornea without sleeves and open at the sides), a girdle, tight hose (calzebraghe) that were tied to the doublet, and soft shoes. Quite often the separate hose were of different colour. Older men wore longer overcoats, while young men tended to wear very short ones. In addition, one could drape a cloak on top of it all. The men had their hair mostly cut short at the front and longer at the back, covering the ears. Beards or moustaches were not fashionable."

"Christopher Columbus" : http://www.reportret.info/gallery/columbus1.html

"the clothes of that time, which were breeches, hose, and doublets."

"Christopher Columbus: The Man, the Myth, the Legend" : http://www.coreknowledge.org/CK/resrcs/lessons/01_K_ChrisColumbus.pdf

"These images of Christopher Columbus are from an assortment of old books."

"Christopher Columbus" : http://karenswhimsy.com/christopher-columbus.shtm

"By contemporary accounts, Columbus had a custom of dressing simply, in the manner of a Franciscan monk. Andres Bernaldez, one of the earliest biographers of the Admiral, wrote in his Reyes Catolicos that "... He came to Castile in the month of June, 1496, and because of his devotion he was dressed in robes of the colour of the ancient habits of the brothers of St. Francis, made almost like a habit, and wearing a cord of St. Francis." As one historian noted, Columbus "insisted on none of the pomp and extravagance that might have been his rank's observance. He lived simply, even with austerity" [Hevesy 1929:14]."

"Looks Are Deceiving: the Portraits of Christopher Columbus" : http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/lester/writings/admiral.html

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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