Thursday, February 14, 2013

Fashion in the Elizabethan Era:

Elizabethan Clothing for Women
Elizabethan Clothing for Men

Underclothes!
  • Smock or shift, also called
    a chemise made of linen
     
     
  • Stockings or hose
  • Corset or bodice

  • Farthingale - a hooped skirt
  • A Roll or Rowle
  • Stomacher
  • Petticoat
  • Kirtle
  • Forepart
  • Partlet
  • Over Clothes!
  • Gown
  • Separate sleeves
  • Ruff
  • Cloak
  • shoes
  • Hat


Underclothes!
  • Shirt
  • Stockings or hose
  • Codpiece
Corset


Over Clothes!
  • Doublet
  • Separate sleeves
  • Breeches
  • Belt
  • Ruff
  • Cloak
  • Shoes
  • Hat
Elizabethan clothes provided information about the status of the person wearing them. This was not just dictated by the wealth of the person, it also reflected their social standing. Only Royalty were permitted to wear clothes trimmed with ermine.

1 comment:

  1. They definitely wear more clothes then, than women do now.

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