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Occupational dress in Randle Holme
Laroon's Sweep 1688There are few items of dress in the seventeenth century that are specific to certain occupations, except perhaps for aprons, which have already been covered at Men in Aprons. Most...
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Purses in the Early Modern
Fig.1 The Calthorpe Purse 1540. V&ALook at probate inventories from the 16th century and the first half of the 17th century and one of the most common entries you will see is his/her apparel and...
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Quilted clothing in the Stuart period
Origins of quilted clothingFigure 1. Nightcap c.1710 Glasgow MuseumsIn her work on quilting Averil Colby says, “to reverse tradition and trace back a custom to its beginning is much more easily said...
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Cloaks: Textiles, Colours and Cut
The Stuart Tailor database contains information on over 32,000 garments from the period 1603 to 1714 from a variety of sources. Around 10% of the wills and probates from Bishops Courts that mention...
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The Cloak: ownership and a long decline.
IntroductionThis is an examination of who owned cloaks and the long decline in their use in the seventeenth century. Many clothing historians have attributed this to Charles II’s declaration of a...
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On Coats: and riding coats, horsemen’s coats, greatcoats, etc.
While in the first half of the seventeenth century the main upper garment for a man was a doublet there are also many references to coats, with the doublet almost disappearing from the records by the...
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Women’s headdresses 1675-1725: top knots, cornets, pinners, etc.
IntroductionThe head wear for fashionable women at the end of the 17th century, beginning of the 18th century, was known for its height. As John (or possibly Mary) Evelyn put it “For Tour on Tour, and...
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Edmund Verney’s Suit, 1662
A suit belonging to Edmund Verney (1636-88) survives in the Claydon House collection of the National Trust. [Figure 1] A bill, dated 18th May 1660, would seem to indicate that the suit may have been...
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