Tammie L. Dupuis - owner and creative genius behind The Renaissance Tailor website, has been sewing since the age of six. She holds a Bachelor's degree from Montana State University in Anthropology/Archeaology and has published articles in several costume newsletters both nationally and internationally over the last decade.

Previous Speakers at CostumeTalk:

Drea Leed - We were pleased to welcome Drea Leed, independent scholar and owner of the most extensive Elizabethan and Tudor costuming reference on the Web, The ElizabethanCostume Page, as our speaker in April 2008. To read more about her lecture series here, and other talks she offers, click on her name on the Main Menu to the left.

Ms. Leed has studied Renaissance clothing and textiles for over ten years. She’s presented papers at the International Congress of Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo and the Medieval Congress at Leeds, England. Ms. Leed has given several talks and seminars on the topic of Renaissance and Elizabethan dress for various groups, and taught a six-week class on Elizabethan Dress at the CostumeClassroom.com.
Among Ms. Leed’s published works is "The Well-Dress'd Peasant: 16th Century Workingwoman's Dress.” She has recently published an article, "Textile Cleaning Techniques in Renaissance Europe,” in Medieval Clothing & Textiles II.
Ms. Leed is currently working on a complete transcription of Queen Elizabeth's wardrobe accounts and an analysis of sixteenth century tailoring as discovered through original documents.

Robin Netherton - researcher specializing in Western European dress of the Middle Ages. Since 1982, she has given lectures and workshops on medieval clothing for academic audiences, historical societies, reenactment groups, and other organizations. An experienced costumer as well as an academic researcher, she addresses both the practical aspects of medieval clothing construction and the significance of costume in history, art, and literature. Her lectures emphasize approaches for researching medieval dress and ways to avoid common myths and mistakes.