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Fashion across social ranks in late 17th-century France By popular request, here is a look at how people from different social backgrounds were represented in late 17th-century France — from men and women of quality to peasants, shepherds, tradespeople, street vendors, a midwife, a financier and members of the clergy.
Women’s fashion through the 17th century The 17th century brought major changes to women’s dress, from the rigid and highly structured silhouettes of the late Renaissance to the softer, more fluid fashions of the mid-century, and finally to the elaborate court styles of the late 1600s.
A century of dramatic changes in silhouette, proportion and decoration. At the beginning of the 1600s, men’s dress still carried many features of the late Renaissance:
The Jerkin is a man’s short close-fitting jacket, without sleeves, worn over the doublet in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A Jerkin is outerwear, often made of leather, velvet and other warm fabrics.