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The order was enlarged several times. As finally constituted, the first and second classes wore a portrait badge bordered with diamonds, the third class (for ladies of the Bedchamber) a portrait badge bordered with pearls, the fourth class (for women of the Bedchamber) a royal cipher. Since this was an official order (conferring the postnominal ...
The jūnihitoe (十二単, lit. 'twelve layers'), more formally known as the itsutsuginu-karaginu-mo (五衣唐衣裳), is a style of formal court dress first worn in the Heian period by noble women and ladies-in-waiting at the Japanese Imperial Court. The jūnihitoe was composed of a number of kimono -like robes, layered on top of each other ...
Indian female royalty (3 C, 110 P) Iranian women royalty (3 C, 2 P)
Since then, the month of March has gone purple, green and white in honor of the women who've paved the way — and continue to do so today. “The use of the colors purple, green, and white to ...
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). Contrasting fabrics, slashes, embroidery, applied trims, and other forms of surface ornamentation ...
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1 – Work clothes. 2 – Shirt. 3 - Tunics. 4 – Tunics and mantles. 5 – Cappa or chaperon. 6 - Tunics. 7 - Tunics with hanging sleeves. Men working in linen braies, tunics, and coifs, from the Maciejowski Bible, c. 1250. The man on the left wears green hose over his braies.
Imperial, royal, noble, gentry and chivalric ranks in West, Central, South Asia and North Africa. Sultana or sultanah ( / sʌlˈtɑːnə /; Arabic: سلطانة sulṭāna) is a female royal title, and the feminine form of the word sultan. This term has been officially used for female monarchs in some Islamic states, and historically it was ...