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A gable hood, English hood or gable headdress is an English woman's headdress of c. 1500–1550, so called because its pointed shape resembles the architectural feature of the same name. The contemporary French hood was rounded in outline and unlike the gable hood, less conservative, displaying the frontal part of the wearer's hair.
Elizabeth of York wears an early gable hood and a front-closing red gown with a fur lining or trim and fur cuffs, c. 1500. An unidentified princess believed to be Mary Tudor or Catherine of Aragon wears a round hood over a linen cap and a dark gown over a kirtle. Her square-necked smock has a narrow row of embroidery at the neck, and she wears ...
The French hood is characterized by a rounded shape, contrasted with the angular "English" or gable hood. It is worn over a coif, and has a black veil attached to the back, which fully covers the hair. [1] Unlike the more conservative gable hood, it displays the front part of the hair.
Lady wearing a gable hood The extravagances of headwear in the late fifteenth century was so notorious that it prompted the retaliation of a number of religious and moralist groups of the time, who likened the shape of some pieces of headwear to a goat or ram, animals which were strongly associated with Baphomet , a deity representative of the ...
The hood may be simply a bag; it may be intended to be, and/or experienced as, humiliating (see hood event). Traditional women's hoods varied from close-fitting, soft headgear (e.g. snood ) to stiffened, structured hoods (e.g. gable hood ) or very large coverings made of material over a frame which fashionable women wore over towering wigs or ...
A single-story house with three gables, although only two can be seen (highlighted in yellow). This arrangement is a crossed gable roof Gable in Finland Decorative gable roof at 176–178 St. John's Place between Sixth and Seventh Avenue in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.
Coifs were worn under gable hoods and hats of all sorts, and alone as indoor headcoverings. Coifs were also worn by a now-defunct senior grade of English lawyer, the Serjeant-at-Law even after they became judges. [2] A United States law school honor society is called the Order of the Coif. Dr. Leonhard von Eck (1480–1550) wearing a coif
The Wife of Bath and the Prioress are depicted wearing wimples in the Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 1400).. The King James Version of the Bible explicitly lists wimples in Isaiah 3:22 as one of a list of female fineries; however, the Hebrew word "miṭpaḥoth" (מִטְפָּחוֹת) means "kerchief".