SCA: What to wear with a bliaut?

I am blessed with wonderful friends of incredible talent. I am very new to the SCA and haven't been able to attend as many events in the past year as I had hoped - yet I continue to find phenomenal clothiers - Lady Sibella Denton of Talmere crafted the Tudor outfit I wore to our "Vision of the Twelve Goddesses" event and the lady wife of my friend Baron Cynric of Bjornsborg (the Baroness Seraphina Maslowska), created this beautiful bliaut which, I'm ashamed to say, I'm wearing for the first time since I received the gift this summer.

But aside from a leather belt and pouch which my mother has given me, I'm not sure what else to wear. Should I wear my white puffy shirt? And what of pants? Would my purple wool cloak be completely and utterly out of Period?

I'm trying to balance being "period compliant" with practicality and warmth....all thoughts are welcome and advance apologies for incorrectly stating terms or titles I'm still learning. I'm off tomorrow so I have a (very small) window to do some shopping if necessary.

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