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The ribbon tie over the instep that had appeared on late sixteenth century shoes grew into elaborate lace or ribbon rosettes called shoe roses that were worn by the most fashionable men and women. Backless slippers called pantofles were worn indoors. By the 1620s, heeled boots became popular for indoor as well as outdoor wear.
Red was the most common color for the bow, although pink, blue, and other colors were also used. By the 1670s, the bow of ribbons had increased in size and in the 1680s, the bow of ribbons became very large and intricate with many loops of ribbon. By the mid-1690s, the very large bow of ribbons was discarded.
Italian fruit seller wears a front-fastening gown with ties or points for attaching sleeves, a green apron, and a chemise with a ruffled collar. Her uncovered hair is typical of Italian custom, c. 1580. Fruit and vegetable-sellers are often shown with more cleavage exposed than other women, whether reflecting a reality or an iconographic ...
Ribbon work is applied to both men's and women's clothing and is incorporated into leggings, skirts, blankets, [2] shawls, breechclouts, purses, shirts, vests, pillows, and other cloth items. The Blood Tribe Police Service of Alberta, and the Anishinabek Police Service of Ontario have made a ribbon skirt part of their standard uniform when ...
White satin gown with virago sleeves tied with pink ribbon, worn under a black short-sleeved gown, c.1630. A virago sleeve is a women's item of clothing fashionable in the 1620s–1630s . It is a full "paned" or "pansied" sleeve (that is, made of strips of fabric) gathered into two puffs by a ribbon or fabric band above the elbow.
A hair ribbon. Along with that of tapes, fringes, and other smallwares, the manufacture of cloth ribbons forms a special department of the textile industries.The essential feature of a ribbon loom is the simultaneous weaving in one loom frame of two or more webs, going up to as many as forty narrow fabrics in modern looms.
Bands are now worn as court dress by judges, King's Counsel, barristers, solicitor advocates, court officials, and as ceremonial/formal dress by certain public officials, university officials and less frequently also by graduands (for example, they are compulsory for male Cambridge graduands, worn with a white bow tie, and optional for women).
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