Bertha collar
The Bertha collar is wide flat soft round (or semicircular) collar located on the shoulders from the neck to the décolleté.
Moretta and Vizard
Moretta and Vizard are black oval masks from the 16th-18th centuries. Moretta is a Venetian mask, and Vizard is a French one.
Ruff collar
The Ruff collar is a lingerie collar formed by pleats or gadroons. It is placed around the neck that it hides and highlights the face of the wearer.
Fontange
The Fontange is a high headdress popular during the turn of 1680’s – 1710’s. Technically, fontanges are the assembly: bonnet with ribbon bows which supported by a wire framework called a commode.
Vertugadin
The Vertugadin or the farthingale is one of several structures used under Western European women’s clothing in the 15th – 17th centuries to support the skirts in the desired shape and enlarged the lower half of the body.
Peascod belly
A peascod belly is a type of exaggeratedly padded stomach that was very popular in men’s dress in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
Men’s headdresses 17th century
Men’s headdresses and hairstyles. 1600’s – 1690’s. Brief history of fashion in pictures.
Women’s headdresses 17th century
Women’s headdresses and hairstyles. 17th century. Brief history of fashion in pictures.
17-th century’s fashion
Fashion Timelines. Briefly about the West European fashion of the 17th century in pictures.
Historical Headdress
Headgear, headwear or headdress is the name given to any element of clothing which is worn on one’s head. Part 1 Late 17th century – the 19th century.
