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Fashion in fourteenth-century Europe was marked by the beginning of a period of experimentation with different forms of clothing. Costume historian James Laver suggests that the mid-14th century marks the emergence of recognizable "fashion" in clothing, in which Fernand Braudel concurs.
23 de nov. de 2019 · In the first years of the war-torn fifteenth century, fashion was a battleground where rulers and courtiers lay claim to power with the display of luxury textiles, elaborate dagging and fanciful personal emblems.
Fashion in 15th-century Europe was characterized by a series of extremes and extravagances, from the voluminous robes called houppelandes with their sweeping floor-length sleeves to the revealing doublets and hose of Renaissance Italy.
Before the mid-14th century, clothing was not sewn, and just consisted of cloth draped around the body. So when craftsmanship began to improve, it enabled more variation in tailoring and more...
11 de sept. de 2017 · OVERVIEW. Womenswear. Wikipedia writes of fourteenth-century clothing: “Wool was the most important material for clothing, due to its numerous favorable qualities, such as the ability to take dye and its being a good insulator.
A particular fashion in armor, which appears to have been confined almost exclusively to the British Isles around 1325–40, was the custom of shortening the surcoat (a garment worn over the actual armor) in the front to about the level of the knees or mid-thigh, while leaving it longer in the back.
21 de jun. de 2021 · OVERVIEW. The court of Burgundy, where courtiers vied for status in countless variations of houppelandes, huques and chaperons continued to dominate fashion in Europe during this decade. Meanwhile in Italy, where we find some of the earliest surviving fashion designs, distinctive styles inspired by classical antiquity signaled a new direction.
