.aisling. Astrid - Viking Dress DEMO

As viking-inspired fantasy costume, this is well done, has some good details & is pretty.

As a costume for mesh bodies, I wish the demo had come in more colors so I would've noticed that there is clipping on each side of my neck that I cannot hide with the alpha hud for my body-I'll make some prim patches as I often do & try again to remember to look next time *very* closely for any clipping- had I worn a dark skin under I would've spotted it but with the skin I was planning on wearing it wasn't apparent til I got the full version.

As historically accurate Norse women's dress, this has some serious flaws. The tortoise brooches while painstakingly accurate in surface detail, are undersized. The pseudo-renaissance lacing and puffing of the sleeves- just weird. I can only assume it's default fantasy aesthetic at work.
There are no keys or other common tools hanging from either the belt or the brooches, so the lady is ill-equipped to face her world.
The skirt is excessively long. No one wants to wear a gown that's wet with the filth of the streets & that's what happens with trailing skirts in authentic surroundings. Also, shoes were frequently fitted with decorations like colorful laces and tin buttons, these cannot be seen with excessively long skirts.
The textiles are not well represented, it looks like heavy woolen felt, not the fine hand-woven worsted wool twills that should be used to make these garments.
The colors are uniform-like, and the combinations are odd, there isn't enough variety. The white is too white. The black is too black. The brown/brown color isn't nice enough for a lady with this rich jewelry. The hangarok trims should not be the same fabric as the smock, they should be decorative & contrasting luxury textiles in polychrome. The tendency of illustrators notwithstanding, ancient people did not generally wear uniforms, they simply didn't think that way and didn't have access to vast yardages of same fabrics like we do today.