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The vestments controversy is also known as the vestiarian crisis or, especially in its Elizabethan manifestation, the edification crisis.The latter term arose from the debate over whether or not vestments, if they are deemed a "thing indifferent" (), should be tolerated if they are "edifying"—that is, beneficial.
The ruff, which was worn by men, women and children, evolved from the small fabric ruffle at the neck of the shirt or chemise. Ruffs served as changeable pieces of cloth that could themselves be laundered separately while keeping the wearer's doublet or gown from becoming soiled at the neckline. The stiffness of the garment forced upright ...
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).
Until the end of the 15th century, the doublet was usually worn under another layer of clothing such as a gown, mantle, or houppelande when in public. In the 16th century it was covered by the jerkin. Women started wearing doublets in the 16th century, [3] and these garments later evolved as the corset and stay. The doublet was thigh length ...
Since Elizabeth I, Queen of England, was the ruler, women's fashion became one of the most important aspects of this period.As the Queen was always required to have a pure image, and although women's fashion became increasingly seductive, the idea of the perfect Elizabethan women was never forgotten.
Brighter hoses seem to be more prominent by the late 14th century, and seem to more resemble trousers that was held up with rope-belts at the waist; hose were sometimes tied directly to the doublet. [2] 15th century hose were often made particolored or mi-parti, having each leg having a different colour, or even one leg made of two colors ...
Thynne's surviving correspondence between 1595 and 1611 was published by the Wiltshire Record Society in 1983 as part of the title Two Elizabethan Women: correspondence of Joan and Maria Thynne. [8] After the death of Maria in 1611, her husband married secondly Catherine Howard, a daughter of Hon. Charles Howard, son of the first Viscount ...
A safeguard or saveguard was a riding garment or overskirt worn by women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Some safeguards were intended to protect skirts or kirtles worn beneath. [ 1 ] Mary Frith , dramatised as the character Moll Cutpurse in The Roaring Girl , wore a black safeguard over breeches . [ 2 ]