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  Medieval Clothing. Dresses, Gowns, Wedding, Costumes, Medieval Clothes, Renaissance Clothing, Historical Clothing for ...
The catalyst for the change in costume that marks the division between the early medieval period and the Romanesque period was the first of the Crusades, which began in 1095.
Later in the period, the hood, with its pointed end (the liripipe), and short shoulder cape, became a hat worn by putting the head into the hole originally intended for the face and wrapping the extended liripipe around the head in turban fashion.
The doublet developed into a fully tailored, frequently padded, garment, which in varying forms survived as the basic male outer garment through the middle of the 17th century.
medievalclothing.com   (1772 words)

  
  Doublet (clothing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Doublets of the 14th and 15th centuries were generally hip-length, sometimes, shorter, worn over the shirt and hose, with a houppeland or other form of overgown.
Charles I in the doublet and breeches fastened with points of 1629, by Daniel Mijtens the Elder.
The doublet fell permanently out of fashion in the mid-17th century when Louis XIV of France and Charles II of England established a court costume for men consisting of a long coat, a waistcoat, a cravat, a wig, and breeches—the ancestor of the modern suit.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Doublet_(clothing)   (494 words)

  
 Clothing - MSN Encarta
Clothing in the early 1100s was worn long, and the overtunic was replaced by the bliaut, a garment imported from the Orient.
Men's clothing in the remainder of the 1100s and during the 1200s displayed variations of length, fullness, and decoration and different names for what were essentially the same garments.
Clothing typical of the Renaissance evolved in Italy and was brought to the rest of Europe following the invasion of Italy in 1494 by Charles VIII of France.
uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569657_5/Clothing.html   (1884 words)

  
 Overview of 15th Century Men's Doublets
Doublets [1] would be worn for over 300 years, and although their shapes and cuts changed over that time, they continued to serve roughly the same purposes.
One style of doublet that featured unusually large armholes for the sleeves also emerged at the end of the century and it is by a twist of fate that the only complete (or nearly complete) surviving pourpoint from this time happened to have this style of sleeve.
Expensive outer cloths, such as brocades, required three linings: “one of linen colored like the [fabric], another of coarse canvas and a third of white linen.” [5] Doublets of “minor silks” had only two linings, one canvas and one linen for the body and a white linen and fabric-colored linen for the sleeves.
www.nachtanz.org /SReed/doublets.html   (3401 words)

  
 Renaissance Doublet Gallery
The epaulets and doublet skirt were made with folded strips of bias and a design was also punched into the fabric and then trimmed with more gimp.
This type of doublet is a classic court doublet styled after many portraits during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. It is approperate for Noble Court attire.
The doublet and slops are not laced or tied together at the waist as usual for the period as this suit was made for a female, and as such, privy access would be most complicated.
www.stimpzillasumptuarylaw.com /rendoublets.html   (716 words)

  
 doublet - Search Results - MSN Encarta
The Englishman's dress is like a traitor's body that hath been hanged, drawn, and quartered, and is set up in various places; his cod-piece is in...
Clothing, coverings and garments intended to be worn on the human body.
The words cloth and clothing are related, the first meaning fabric or...
ca.encarta.msn.com /doublet.html   (88 words)

  
 MALE CLOTHING IN THE RENAISSANCE
Clothing lends to the wearer the appearance of the period in which his persona lives as much as his mastery of the courtly graces or skill on the list field.
English clothes generally developed along similar lines to those in Germany but with a certain amount of restraint that seemed to be lacking in the wildly slashed and colored clothes of the Landsknects.
In the early 16th century the doublet was loose fitting at the neck and equipped with puffed sleeves.
www.stormypetrel.org /aubrey/arpcloth.html   (3858 words)

  
 Medieval Clothing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Clothing in the middle ages was rough and scratchy, but in some cases was smooth and finely sewn, (depending on how wealthy you were).
Clothes were often made at home and were often rough and shapeless.
On their clothes was a rope belt with wooden beads for counting prayers.
www.kyrene.k12.az.us /schools/Brisas/sunda/ma/1adele.htm   (467 words)

  
 Sempstress.org -- Elizabethan Costuming
Doublets were worn by both men and women during the Elizabethan era.
With doublets meant to be worn open, the collar could either have corners in the normal, right angle fashion, or the collar could take a graceful curve from the high point in the back down to the front proper.
As the reign of Elizabeth progressed, it became popular for the belly area of the doublet to be padded in the front.
www.sempstress.org /patterns/drafting/doublets.shtml   (1231 words)

  
 Colonial clothing
Often the doublet and breeches were made as a suit with the same material and trim.
Ruffs are made of a number of lengths of cloth sewn together and gathered in figure eight's onto a neck band or wristband.
Because all clothing was expensive, styles of dress did not change from year to year, much less from season to season.
www.sad6.k12.me.us /bems/curtis6/benjoey.html   (959 words)

  
 Doublet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a Doublet (clothing), a man's snug-fitting buttoned jacket that was worn in medieval and Tudor times
a Doublet (lapidary), a fake gem composed in two sections, such as a garnet overlaying green glass
a Doublet (physics), a quantum state of a system with a spin of 1/2
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Doublet   (152 words)

  
 Men's Clothing
The heavily padded, peascod doublet reached its peak of excess in the 80s, and doublets have started to become somewhat more natural looking in the later 90s.
A doublet with a natural waist, comfortable sleeves, and deep skirt (to mid-thigh, like the "Beefeaters") would be appropriate working-class wear.
Doublets with a very narrow (almost vestigial) skirt were also worn, especially with Venetians.
www.lepg.org /men.htm   (1214 words)

  
 Clothing Shoppe
Cloth stockings made of silk or linen have always been worn and still are today.
The heavily padded, peascod doublet have a pointy waist and a skirt of tabs most of the time, but there are other styles.
A doublet with a natural waist, comfortable sleeves, and deep skirt (to mid-thigh) is appropriate working-class wear.
www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us /Renaissance/Town/Clothing/Shop.html   (1996 words)

  
 MacKenzie's Folly
Clothing during the reign of Elizabeth (1558-1603) has always reflected the social status of the wearer.
Men and women alike were concerned to be wearing the latest and most fashionable outfits, and although the most fashionable clothes were worn primarily by the upper classes, their fashions influence ordinary people as well.
The doublet is similar to the jerkin, but it has sleeves, either of the same or contrasting fabric or color.
www.mackenziesfolly.com /men-tudor&elizabeth.htm   (442 words)

  
 The Renaissance by Maurita
The tie on sleeves are made of velvet to match the doublet, they tie on to the doublet at the shoulder with cotton braid lacing tipped in metal aglets.
The doublet has tie on sleeves, a standing collar, shoulder and waist tabs and is lined with a cotton blend fabric to match in color.
The Elizabethan velvet doublet is made of crushed velvet fabric and accented in braid trim, both in the color of your choice.
www.bymaurita.com /page5.html   (641 words)

  
 Deliberately Concealed Garments Project | Clothing found hidden in buildings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
She worked on a doublet that had been found concealed during the final year of her Textile Conservation diploma, at The Textile Conservation Centre, in 1990.
It was fortuitous that although the doublet was not complete (a lot of the left front was missing and parts of the back and one sleeve nearly completely missing).
As the doublet was made of course linen it is still possible to buy almost exactly the same material today.
www.concealedgarments.org /research/oral/stanton.html   (1689 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Later in the period, the hood, with its pointed end (the liripipe), and short shoulder cape, became a hat worn by putting the head into the hole originally intended for the face and wrapping the extended liripipe around the head in turban fashion.
Over the doublet, the old over tunic, now with a collar and called a cotehardie, was still worn.
The doublet developed into a fully tailored, frequently padded, garment, which in varying forms survived as the basic male outer garment through the middle of the 17th century.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/Acres/7631/costume3.html   (1431 words)

  
 CLOTHING
Also alb; a tunic or vestment of white cloth reaching to the feet, enveloping the wearer; a variety of surplice, but with close sleeves; worn by clerics in religious ceremonies and by some consecrated kings.
Cloth embroidered with lines, often in metallic threads, like the shading of an engraving or drawing.
Strip of leather or cloth used to fasten a shoe or clog.
www.richard111.com /clothing.htm   (1659 words)

  
 Kingdom of Lochac - Royal Guild of Defence - SCA Rapier Garb - From Fighting to Feasting
It is not necessary for the doublet sleeves to be completely made of three layers of fabric, but the top third of the arm MUST have a total coverage of four layers of heavy poplin fabric or similar, so two of the three sleeve layers could cover just the top third of the arm.
Wearing male clothing is a valid option, and no woman should feel she should not or could not wear male attire to fence in.
Shift= 1 layer, doublet = 3 layers, for the minimum of four layers on torso, skirt = 2 layers, 2 pairs of undies = 2 layers, for the minimum of four covering the groin.
www.sca.org.au /rapier/guild_Bella1.htm   (3204 words)

  
 clothing
After the disastrous battle of Mabila when most of the spare clothing of the Hernando de Soto expedition had been burned and much was what was worn had been torn up to make bandages for the wounded, the army was forced to rely on native material to make new clothing.
As they passed all the nights formed in squadrons and had such little clothing to wear—for the best equipped among them had only breeches and jackets of deerskin, and almost all were barefooted, without shoes or sandals...
I suspect that although the clothing depredations suffered by members of the expedition were indeed severe, at least some of these descriptions are “war story” exaggerations.
mywebpages.comcast.net /calderon/clothing.htm   (3140 words)

  
 Medieval Fashion Glossary/Images
a type of doublet made of padded, quilted material; in 14th century, same as a doublet.
knitted or cloth, a covering for the foot and part of the leg, later to become two-piece in 16th century.
originally an over-shoulder satchel, became strip of cloth worn from shoulder to hip and tied at waist in 14th century.
romancereaderatheart.com /medieval/timeline   (963 words)

  
 Clothing Gallery - In Prayse of the Needle
Once the bands are spaced on a doublet, there should be enough brown showing through to tone it down a bit.
I am thinking about orienting the corduroy on an angle for the doublet so that the stripes of the corduroy form a chevron pattern at the front seem.
The doublet will be the same, with the brown linen/cotton blend being replaced with champagne duchess satin.
needleprayse.webcon.net.au /clothing/clothing_brown_doublet.html   (3210 words)

  
 upmen
The clothing of the middle and noble classes is basically the same in construction, but there is considerable variety in the intentions and styles of the two groups.
Trim on doublets often follows a triangular pattern from the shoulders to the waist, which gives the illusion of broad shoulders and a narrow waistline.
The padded front of the peascod doublet is one factor that led to the costume myth of the back laced doublet, however, there is no reason to believe that back lacing was used.
www.directcon.net /wander/upmen.htm   (1383 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Inside this large iron box was the clothing of Erik, Svante and Nils, which toatled to be 3 pairs of breeches, 2 doublets of velvet and one of leather, 4 shirts, 4 hats, a glove with letters woven into it, and a wreath of straw.
Eriks clothing to a lot of degree is one of the most interesting outfits in that it shows a good example of how clothing was altered when the owner put on weight.
The sleeves on this doublet are very tight, however the double armpit gusset allows for a full range of motion to still be achieved.The Plunderhosen are made of a leather foundation around The hips, covered in velvet and the taffeta added on top.
thorkell.halberd.org /lorenzo/documents/sture/sture.htm   (1499 words)

  
 The Tudor Costume Page
The doublet is the male equivalent of the bodice and, apart from being unboned, is constructed in much the same way.
Doublets, on the other hand, were made to fit snugly.
The doublet finishes at the natural waist - alarmingly high to modern eyes - although the front may drop to a point beneath it.
freespace.virgin.net /f.lea/doublet1.html   (2034 words)

  
 Medieval Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Medieval clothing begins historically with the end and fall of the Western Roman Empire in AD 476.
Medieval clothing for men displayed variations of length fullness, decoration, and different names for basically the same clothing in the 12th and 13th Centuries.
By 1400 the houppelande was worn as an outer garment.
www.shoshone.k12.id.us /medieval/clothing.htm   (435 words)

  
 Some Clothing of the Middle Ages - Leather Clothing
It was blowing a cold wind, and Styrkar had not much other clothing upon him but his shirt, and had a helmet on his head, and a drawn sword in his hand.
Your costume [clothing] you should plan beforehand in such a way that you come fully dressed in good apparel, the smartest that you have, and wearing fine trousers [hosen] and shoes.
Your linen should be made of good linen stuff, but with little cloth used; your shirt should be short, and all your linen rather light.
www.personal.utulsa.edu /~marc-carlson/cloth/leather.html   (1371 words)

  
 What Did Pilgrims Really Wear - Part ll Women's Clothing - Costuming
The clothing that woman wore were not as different from the men as one might expect.
The waistcoat is a vest which may or may not have sleeves and was worn under the doublet when it was cold or alone when a doublet was too warm.
The fronts of the doublet dipped deeply at the center front and rounded to the waist at the sides.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art25985.asp   (999 words)

  
 Carlisles Doublets: Carlisles Historic Clothing ... Ranaissance and more   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
All of our doublets are fully lined and come in a variety of colors and styles.
This doublet is perfect for fighting garb, letting you duel in style, as well as attend court in fashion.
This doublet is perfect for formal wear events, and special occasions, as it will captive any onlooker with it's stunning quality and elegant line.
www.carlislesonline.com /Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=CHC&Category_Code=Doublets   (1061 words)

  
 Some Clothing of the Middle Ages - Glossary
It varied at different times in character and mode of wearing, being originally (it is said) a cap or covering for the head; afterwards a hood, or cape with a hood; in later times a mere college 'hood' or badge, borne by canons in France on the left arm.
A military tunic, worn especially in the 14th c., made of leather or thick cloth, sometimes padded; it covered the trunk and thighs, and was originally worn under the habergeon, to prevent chafing or bruises, but was sometimes used as a defence without other body-armour.
It was a variety of gippon or gambeson in in rich cloth, which passed from military to civil costume and became an outer garment from the early 14th century.
www.personal.utulsa.edu /~marc-carlson/cloth/glossary.html   (8423 words)

  
 Doublet, 15th century, Arming
The arming doublet passed with flying colours, and we are now confident this is the finest garment of its kind on the market.
The doublet closes in the center front and at the wrist with points, while spiral lacing at the center back allows for a completely custom fit.
The arming doublet can be supplied with attachment eyelets for you to point on Flat Ring Riveted Maille Voiders, or you can hand-stitch them on yourself.
www.historicenterprises.com /cart.php?m=product_detail&p=362&c=79   (370 words)

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