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2. 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.

3. Renaissance fair - Wikipedia

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   A Renaissance Festival (medieval fair or ren faire) is an outdoor gathering that aims to entertain its guests by recreating a historical setting, most often the English Renaissance. Renaissance festivals generally include costumed entertainers or fair-goers, musical and theatrical acts, art and handicrafts for sale, and festival food.

4. 1550–1600 in European fashion - Wikipedia

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   During this period, women's underwear consisted of a washable linen chemise or smock. This was the only article of clothing that was worn by every woman, regardless of class. Wealthy women's smocks were embroidered and trimmed with narrow lace. Smocks were made of rectangular lengths of linen; in northern Europe the smock skimmed the body and ...

5. 1300–1400 in European fashion - Wikipedia

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   Costume historian James Laver suggests that the mid-14th century marks the emergence of recognizable "fashion" in clothing, [1] in which Fernand Braudel concurs. [2] The draped garments and straight seams of previous centuries were replaced by curved seams and the beginnings of tailoring , which allowed clothing to more closely fit the human form.

6. 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).

7. 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 ...