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2. Jūnihitoe - Wikipedia

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   The kosode: a short red or white silk robe of ankle or lower calf length. The nagabakama: the formal version of hakama worn by noble women; a very long pleated red skirt, sewn with two split legs. The hitoe: an unlined silk robe; usually red, white, or blue-green, although other colors (such as dark red-violet or dark green) very rarely occur.

3. Janet Arnold - Wikipedia

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   Items of clothing and jewels lost or given away by Elizabeth I between 1561 and 1583, entered in one of the day books kept for the records of the Wardrobe of Robes. 1985: Patterns of Fashion: the cut and construction of clothes for men and women 1560–1620, Macmillan 1985. Revised edition 1986. ISBN 0-89676-083-9

4. Sack-back gown - Wikipedia

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   The sack-back gown or robe à la française was a women's fashion of 18th century Europe. [1] At the beginning of the century, the sack-back gown was a very informal style of dress. At its most informal, it was unfitted both front and back and called a sacque, contouche, or robe battante. By the 1770s the sack-back gown was second only to court ...

5. Polonaise (clothing) - Wikipedia

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   Two women wearing the robe à la polonaise, literally meaning the Polish dress Jean-Michel Moreau, Le Rendez-vous pour Marly, engraved by Carl Guttenberg c. 1777.. The robe à la polonaise or polonaise, literally meaning the Polish dress, is a woman's garment of the 18th century 1770s and 1780s or a similar revival style of the 1870s inspired by Polish national dress style, costume, [1 ...

6. Mantua (clothing) - Wikipedia

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   A mantua (from the French manteuil or 'mantle') is an article of women's clothing worn in the late 17th century and 18th century. Initially a loose gown, the later mantua was an overgown or robe typically worn over stays, stomacher and either a co-ordinating or contrasting petticoat. The mantua or manteau was a new fashion that arose in the ...

7. Kosode - Wikipedia

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   Originating in the Heian period as an undergarment for both men and women, the kosode was a plain white garment, typically made of silk, worn directly next to the skin.Both men and women wore layered, wrap-fronted, wide-sleeved robes on top of the kosode, with the style of layering worn by women of the Imperial Japanese court – known as the jūnihitoe, literally "twelve layers" – featuring ...