FMD 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Liripipe, Codpiece, Houppelande

• School: CMU
• Department: Fashion Merchandising and Design
• Course: FMD 250
• Professor: usha Chowdhary

Document Summary

1st century wedding banquet: bride wore traditional dress of royal women; this included tall headdresses, servers wore shouldered jackets and poulaines. Evolution and styles of the 15th century-headdresses for women: Rites of passage: wedding-white is later development. Jewelry was more important: baptism-linen veil, new born- wrapped in fur-trimmed mantle, mourning-black in the northern europe, men did not wear pourpoint. Italian suit of armor in 15th century: mail armor from plates. Garments from the later middle ages: gender differences, political conflict, fashion, economic changes, social class, changes in textile, processing. Accessories: pouches, cuffed gloves, lots of embroidery was used. Wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s costu(cid:373)es: gown, skirt, surcote, long line of brooches, capes, cloaks, herigaut (gown type garment) Hair & headdress: covered with veils or nets, hair was plaited, fillet, wimple, hoods with hide brimmed hats. Accessories and footwear: gloves, stockings, shoes with less pointed toes.