English Clothing

Woman' s cotehardie pattern for size 10, with some documentat ion included for a 15th century princess seam fitted dress. Updated on website to include additional sizes.

Images of children, and children&# 39;s clothing, in the Renaissanc e. Includes kids from Denmark, England, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain; from peasants & paupers to princes & princesses .

Dedicated to the study of historical costume from 1475 to 1625. Photos and dress-diaries from the author's work in Renaissance-era costuming; image galleries and other research articles; and historically-inspired "Featured Attyre" from costumers all over the world.

Mistress Grace Gamble provides instructions for a 16th century English shirt or high-necked shift.

Blackwork embroidery was used in many forms on a variety of different garments. This gallery is intended to assist costumers in looking at ways of incorporat ing blackwork embroidery into Renaissanc e-era costume. Links to portraits and to examples in museums.

This class is a mix between a research lecture and a dress diary, in which I first provide some source analysis on a feminine style of clothing and headdress seen in figural art around 1480, followed by my use of this informatio n in the making of my own version of the outfit.

A medieval friary in the north-east of England is not, perhaps, the first place you'd look for evidence of high-fashi on civilian clothing from the 14th and 15th centuries. Hoods, gowns, girdles and some of England&#3 9;s earliest underpants were a surprise.

An overview of 11th century clothing, including fabrics and colors.

How to use extant garments from Greenland and England as a basis for a lady's cotehardie.

A project of the Textile Conservation Centre of the University of Southampton. Website features a search engine with garment finds and caches from England.

A project of the Textile Conservation Centre of the University of Southampton. Website features a search engine with garment finds and caches from England.

During the late 1500s, Queen Elizabeth I passed a series of strict laws relating to dress codes. The laws ensured that people across the social spectrum dressed according to their rank and class. At this time, England was importing great quantities of luxury fabrics, and the Queen expressed concern that her subjects were spending too much money on 'unnecessa ry foreign wares' and 'vain devices'. The laws allowed her to curb extravagan t spending, and to define and set the distinctio ns between the different strata of society. Those found dressed in inappropri ate clothing could be fined. This document specifies the fabrics and types of clothing that each social rank was permitted to wear, such as specific types of embroidere d silks, 'tinseled' satins, furs or 'purpures' - a type of purple or crimson robe.

Includes contemporary descriptions of clothing, as well as a glossary of terms relating to civil, professional, ceremonial, ecclesiastical, and military costume.

Embroidere d jackets (and portraits of women wearing embroidere d jackets) from late 16th and early 17th century England.

Catalogues Chaucer's names for different sorts of garments, accessories, and elements of armor, as he describes them in The Canterbury Tales.

A catalogue of the garment-terms in the Paston letters of the late 15th and early 16th centuries.

Selected illustrations from a 19th century book on historic fashions.

Bibliographic entries compiled to serve my research purposes on the subject of costume rhetoric in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Sections include: sumptuary laws; history of costume; accessories/accoutrements; miscellaneous (fur, embroidery, buttonholes, narrow wares, etc.); fabric, clothmaking, and prices; costumes depicted in two- and three-dimensional visual arts; costumes depicted on funeral brasses; costumes depicted in literature; and dictionaries for costume terms.

Free patterns for elements of Elizabetha n costumes.

For most of London, secondhand was simply an economical way to get needed clothes.

Gathers images of English clothing from early Tudor to Early Stuart times, with a focus on the Elizabethan period.

The database is now a living resource, constantly updated by our staff with several hundred new objects each day. The objects recorded by the Scheme, are known as "porta ble antiquitie s" and are found by members of the public. These objects range from the Palaeolith ic to around the 18th Century, and include items recorded in the Annual Treasure Report published by the UK's Department of Culture, Media and Sport.

The Portable Antiquitie s Scheme is a voluntary scheme to record archaeolog ical objects found by members of the public in England and Wales.

The transcribe d contents of MS Egerton 2806, the complete record of what Queen Elizabeth' s tailors made, altered and bought between the years 1568 and 1588.

These documents are from a number of account books found in the Essex Records office. Some are account books belonging to William Petre, D/DP A6 and D/DP A10, and some belong to his some John Petre (D/DP 17-22). There is one book per year, from Michelmas to Michelmas, and they record all expenditur es of the estate: diet, building and repair, household expenses, miscellane ous expenses, wages and receipts and apparel.

They are of particular interest due to the numerous detailed tailors' bills for apparel they contain, for both the master (John Petre) and his servant's livery. There is also, in one book of account, a complete year's worth of informatio n on all apparel and expenditur e for three of his children.

Provides guidelines for materials, decoration , men's & women' s clothing, headwear, legwear, and footwear for Viking and Anglo-Saxo n England.

Line drawings from extant medieval garments.

Philip Stubbes started writing around 1581 producing small tracts in which he sharply denounced the manners, pastimes, fashions and culture in England. His major work, The Anatomie of Abuses, was first published in 1583.

P hilip Stubbes had a gift for keen observatio n. Although his comments should not be considered to reveal mainstream thought or opinions of the time, (even his contempora ries thought him extreme) his virulent attacks on the abuses in fashion and English society provide us with a detailed, colorful and picturesqu e glimpse into the England of Shakespear e's youth.

Stubbes' Anatomie of Abuses catalogued in a thorough and methodical fashion every unpleasantness that the author could think to mention. It is in the realm of fashion that Stubbes' descriptions are especially valuable.

Notes on medieval clothing, and a few passages from English sumptuary laws of 1336, 1337 and 1363.

As England transitioned from a medieval mode of government and society to an earlymodern nation, the state and its citizens confronted challenges to traditional culture. The old feudal system's hold over society was lessening to a certain degree, allowing for greater mobility within the social hierarchy. Members of the gentry aspired to higher status, or at the very least, the appearance of such status. This emulation was fueled by the emergence of a middle class of wealthy, but untitled, people attempting to better their own social position.

Mistress Drea's site. If you want to do Elizabethan clothing - begin here. Tons of references and how to articles on everything from corset making (and a pattern generator) to fabric colors, to hats, to well, everything.

I've cropped a selection of ladies from photograph s of brass rubbings for analysis of their veil formations . The veils on some of these images are easy to understand . On others, not at all. Are we seeing a form of veil stylizatio n that can only be explained as the brass incising equivalent of visual shorthand? Or, are we seeing an accurate-b ut-stylize d portrayal of each crease or edge of the veil(s)?

While individual commanders might dress their own men to show off, the majority of the militias that constituted what little "army" England possessed were private citizens who were given little money and less clothing for their pains. The one item issued with any regularity for parades and special occasions that is detailed in available records was the cassock, a kind of half-length overcoat with sleeves.

A searchable catalog of surviving garments from Europe and the Mediterranean from the dawn of time up through approximately 1500.

Free download of a PhD thesis, focusing on late Medieval north-east England, and the trends in dress accessorie s worn there.

This collection has been put together to help me design a historically accurate English 16th century dress.

A pilot resource for anyone interested in the cut and construction of 16th century dress. Browse the photographs, or search the database for specific images using dates or keywords.

The following list is a breakdown of the common clothes worn by women in the early 1580s, documented from depictions of the period of working-class people.