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  2. 1500–1550 in European fashion - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of the family of Sir Thomas More shows English fashions around 1528.. Fashion in the period 1500–1550 in Europe is marked by very thick, big and voluminous clothing worn in an abundance of layers (one reaction to the cooling temperatures of the Little Ice Age, especially in Northern Europe and the British Isles).

  3. 1550–1600 in European fashion - Wikipedia

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    The wide silhouette, conical for women with breadth at the hips and broadly square for men with width at the shoulders had reached its peak in the 1530s, and by mid-century a tall, narrow line with a V-lined waist was back in fashion. Sleeves and women's skirts then began to widen again, with emphasis at the shoulder that would continue into ...

  4. French hood - Wikipedia

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    However, English women at the time mostly wore the gable hood, and the French hood did not achieve much popularity in England until the 1530s and 1540s. In September 1537, Lady Lisle requested from the merchant William le Gras: "many hats, such as the ladies wear in France, for now the ladies here follow the French fashion."

  5. Farthingale - Wikipedia

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    A farthingale is one of several structures used under Western European women's clothing - especially in the 16th and 17th centuries - to support the skirts in the desired shape and to enlarge the lower half of the body. The fashion originated in Spain in the fifteenth century. Farthingales served important social and cultural functions for ...

  6. Jane Foole - Wikipedia

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    Henry the Eighth and His Family (1545); the man at the far-right background is jester Will Somers, and it has been suggested that the woman at the far left is Jane Foole. Jane Foole , also known as Jane The Foole , Jane, The Queen's Fool , "Jeanne le Fol" or "Jane Hir Fole" ( fl. 1543–1558), was an English court fool (distinct from a jester ).

  7. Margaret Tudor - Wikipedia

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    A short profile of Margaret alongside other influential women of her time; Lucy Dean, 'Rituals to Celebrate Perpetual Peace: The Marriage of Margaret Tudor and James IV in 1503' Margaret Tudor Gallery; List of clothing fabrics sent to Margaret Tudor by Henry VIII in 1536, British Library Add MS 32646 ff. 53–54 "Margaret, Queen of Scotland" .

  8. 1400–1500 in European fashion - Wikipedia

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    Women also wore the chaperon, a draped hat based on the hood and liripipe, and a variety of related draped and wrapped turbans. The most extravagant headdress of Burgundian fashion was the hennin, a cone or truncated-cone shaped cap with a wire frame covered in fabric and topped by a floating veil. Later hennins featured a turned-back brim, or ...

  9. Bacton Altar Cloth - Wikipedia

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    The restored Altar Cloth in June 2019. The Bacton Altar Cloth is a 16th-century garment that is considered the sole surviving dress of Queen Elizabeth I.The cloth, embroidered in an elaborate floral design and made of cloth of silver, is an important relic of Tudor fashion and luxury trade, containing dyes from as far away as India and Mexico. [1]