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Sheep shearers wear short tunics over shirts, with hose and ankle-high shoes, Flanders, c. 1510. Haymakers: Barefoot women wear short-sleeved, front-laced gowns with contrasting linings tucked up over knee-length chemises, with aprons and straw hats. Men wear sleeveless overgowns or jerkins over their shirts and hose, c. 1510.
Young Italian men wear brimless caps, The Betrothal, c. 1470 [1] As Europe continued to grow more prosperous, the urban middle classes, skilled workers, began to wear more complex clothes that followed, at a distance, the fashions set by the elites. It is in this time period that fashion took on a temporal aspect.
Inés de Zúñiga, Countess of Monterrey is a beautiful example of typical court fashion in Spain. 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.
The picture depicts three young men standing in an empty landscape, wearing fine suits, hats and canes. All the three men are still and facing the camera, being caught on their action of going to a dance in a nearby village. Despite the title, the picture does not actually depict real farmers.
Male courtiers enjoyed wearing fancy-dress for festivities; the disastrous Bal des Ardents in 1393 in Paris is the most famous example. Men, as well as women, wore decorated and jewelled clothes; for the entry of the Queen of France into Paris in 1389, the Duke of Burgundy wore a velvet doublet embroidered with forty sheep and forty swans, each ...
By projecting all three images onto a screen simultaneously, he was able to recreate the original image of the ribbon. #4 London, Kodachrome Image credits: Chalmers Butterfield
The fashion for wearing or carrying the pelt of a sable or marten spread from continental Europe into England in this period; costume historians call these accessories zibellini or "flea furs". The most expensive zibellini had faces and paws of goldsmith's work with jewelled eyes. Queen Elizabeth received one as a New Years gift in 1584. [32]
Two men at an alehouse wear felt hats. The man at the right wears a short jacket rather than a coat. English countryman wears a round felt hat and a smock-frock. The countrywoman wears a short red cloak and a round hat over her cap, 1790s. Idealized sans-culotte by Louis-Léopold Boilly