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The Infanta Margarita of Spain is shown here wearing a mourning dress of unrelieved black with long sleeves, cloak and hood. She wears her hair parted to one side and severely bound in braids, 1666. Two English ladies wear dresses with short sleeves over chemise sleeves gathered into three puffs. The long bodice front with curving bands of ...
Serig: It is a kind of big rectangular scarf that is decorated with embroidery. Footwear: Baloch women use four types of shoes, namely Sawas, Mochi, Katuk and Takkul. Balochi embroidery alone has 118 different basic designs. [18] Baloch women use a large scarf to cover their heads called a sareg. [19] Mahtab Norouzi was an Iranian Baluchi ...
Men wear sleeveless overgowns or jerkins over their shirts and hose, c. 1510. The prodigal son is dressed like a beggar, in undyed or faded clothing. He wears a hood and carries a hat with a brim and a wicker pack on his back, c. 1510. The great washing day showing barefoot women with short sleeved dresses doing laundry, 1531
Sleeves and women's skirts then began to widen again, with emphasis at the shoulder that would continue into the next century. The characteristic garment of the period was the ruff , which began as a modest ruffle attached to the neckband of a shirt or smock and grew into a separate garment of fine linen, trimmed with lace, cutwork or ...
The Brunswick dress was a two-piece costume of German origin consisting of a hip-length jacket with "split sleeves"—flounced elbow-length sleeves and long, tight lower sleeves—and a hood, worn with a matching petticoat. It was popular for traveling. Court dress, the grand habit de cour or "stiff-bodied" gown, retained the styles of the ...
Cambodians traditionally wear a checkered scarf called a krama (ក្រមា). The krama has been a feature of Khmer dress since the first-century reign of Preah Bath Hun Tean, although it is unclear exactly when the krama became fashionable in the street.
The traditional scarf, worn across many parts of the Middle East, has come to be identified in particular as a symbol of Palestinian identity and resistance. The keffiyeh explained: How this scarf ...
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 ...