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Gordenker, Emilie E.S.: Van Dyck and the Representation of Dress in Seventeenth-Century Portraiture, Brepols, 2001, ISBN 978-2-503-50880-1; Payne, Blanche: History of Costume from the Ancient Egyptians to the Twentieth Century, Harper & Row, 1965. No ISBN for this edition; ASIN B0006BMNFS
Baroque Fashion 1600s; Costume History: Cavalier/Puritan; Women's Fashions of the 17th Century Archived 3 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine (engravings by Wenceslaus Hollar) Etchings of French 1620s men's fashion (mostly) by Abraham Bosse; Surviving embroidered linen jacket c. 1620 at the Museum of Costume
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It is known as one of the world's foremost fashion libraries. [2] The collection contains over thirty thousand books, nearly seven hundred periodical titles, and over fifteen hundred designer files. [3] The documents pertain to worldwide fashion and clothing history from the sixteenth century to today. [3]
For some four hundred years, suits of matching coat, trousers, and waistcoat have been in and out of fashion. The modern lounge suit's derivation is visible in the outline of the brightly coloured, elaborately crafted royal court dress of the 17th century (suit, wig, knee breeches), which was shed because of the French Revolution.
A 16th-century French drawing shows a woman riding sidesaddle and wearing a mask or vizard. Godfrey Goodman doubted that Elizabeth I rode very often by 1597, when discussing a plot involving a clerk in the royal stable Edward Squire to poison her. [15] Squire is said to have confessed to sprinkling poison on her saddle without effect. [16]
Black, J. Anderson and Madge Garland: A History of Fashion, Morrow, 1975. ISBN 0-688-02893-4; Cunnington, C. Willett and Phillis Emily Cunnington: Handbook of English Costume in the Eighteenth Century. London: Faber, 1972. Payne, Blanche: History of Costume from the Ancient Egyptians to the Twentieth Century, Harper & Row, 1965. No ISBN for ...
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 ...