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The tunic on the left is an early example of mi-parti or particolored clothing, made from two fabrics. Cantigas de Santa Maria, mid-13th century, Spain. Pan-pipe players wear tunics with hanging sleeves over long-sleeved undertunics. Both wear coifs. Cantigas de Santa Maria, mid-13th century, Spain.
Fashion in fourteenth-century Europe was marked by the beginning of a period of experimentation with different forms of clothing. Costume historian James Laver suggests that the mid-14th century marks the emergence of recognizable " fashion " in clothing, [ 1 ] in which Fernand Braudel concurs. [ 2 ]
A new fashion, the bliaut gironé, arose in mid-century: this dress is cut in two pieces, a fitted upper portion with a finely pleated skirt attached to a low waistband. [ 7 ] The fitted bliaut was sometimes worn with a long belt or cincture (in French, ceinture ) that looped around a slightly raised waist and was knotted over the abdomen; the ...
14th-century Italian silk damasks. Clothing in 12th and 13th century Europe remained very simple for both men and women, and quite uniform across the subcontinent. The traditional combination of short tunic with hose for working-class men and long tunic with overdress for women and upper-class men remained the norm.
Pages in category "13th-century fashion" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. ... 0–9. 1200–1300 in European fashion; B. Bycocket; C ...
Reconstruction from Kirkleatham Museum of the body of the Street House "Saxon Princess" in her bed. 7th Century AD, Northumbria, England. Women's clothing in Western Europe went through a transition during the early medieval period as the migrating Germanic tribes adopted Late Roman symbols of authority, including dress. In Northern Europe, at ...
Woman wearing a one-piece bliaut and cloak or mantle, c. 1200, west door of Angers Cathedral.. The bliaut or bliaud is an overgarment that was worn by both sexes from the eleventh to the thirteenth century in Western Europe, featuring voluminous skirts and horizontal puckering or pleating across a snugly fitted under bust abdomen.
The houppelande appeared around 1360 and was to remain fashionable well into the next century. [1] It had its origins in the herigaut , a similar 13th-century garment with hanging sleeves. [ 2 ] The edges of the houppelande were often dagged , or cut into decorative patterns such as scallops, "embattled" tabs or even leaf shapes.