Brigitte needed an easy and reasonably period-looking dress to wear around the campsite, cook food in, etc. The yellow and orange cotton we picked up cheaply at an SCA event, and they combined well. the sleeves are removable, of course, and can come on and off depending on what work she is doing.

The neck and elbow trim was a quick cheat I was shown by a long-ago SCAdian friend. Take two colors of rickrack (the same size) and wind them together, keeping the whole thing flat as you go. It makes a surprisingly period-looking trim, and does something positive with what would otherwise be an entirely useless trim as far as I am concerned.