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Ch.8 The Northern Renaissance
1500 AD to 1615 AD
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Undergraduate 1
12/08/2008

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aiguillettes
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small jeweled metal points that decorated sleeves by fastening the panes
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bases
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separate short skirts worn with a jacket or doublet for civil dress or over armor for military dress, made from series of lines and stiffened gores, wedge shaped pieces
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bobbin/pillow lace
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created a complex pattern by twisting or knotting together a series of threads held on bobbins, originated in low countries
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bombast
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stuffing made of wool, horsehair, short linen fibers called tow or bran that was used to pad trunk hose and doublets
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bum rolls
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a padded roll was placed around the waist
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canions
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extensions from the end of trunk hose to knees or slightly below that were either made in the same color or a contrasting color to trunk hose
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copotain
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high crowned narrow brimmed hat, could have feathers, braid, or jewels
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conch
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sheer gauzelike veil so fine that in some portraits it can barely be seen, worn capelike over shoulders, at back of neck was attached to a wing like construction that stood up like a high colar behind the head-Queen Elizabeth
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culots
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form of slop that had limited use other than fashion, made of short section worn with very tight fitting hose
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duckbills
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wide shoes with decorations of slashing with puffs of fabric pulled through the openings
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filet/lacis
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artisan embriodered patterns on a net background, forerunner of lace
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farthingale
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french wheel drum for better support of dress and greater width circles were made the same diameter top to bottom, steel or cane spokes fastened the topmost hoop to a waistband
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gabled coif
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english stly shaped like pointed arch
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galligaskins
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slops, narrow waist to fullness at mid thigh type of trunk hose
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lace
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constucted entirely from threads dispensing with any backing fabric
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lacis
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filet, artisan embroidered patterns on a net background, forerunner of lace
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medici
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collar ,flared fan shaped collar with a V opening at front
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mules
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backless shoes worn by men and women
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needlepoint
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lace, originated in italy, made by embroidering over base threads arranged in pattern and conneting these4 base threads with a series of small intricate stitches
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nether stocks
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smaller portion of the cut those
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open breeches
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wide and full thoughout type of breeches that were worn together with separate stockings
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pair of bodies
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forerunner of the corset, linen under bodie made from two layers of fabric siffened wiht glue, cut into two sections and fastened at the front and back with laces or tapes, under and outer garment
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patlock
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version of the soudblet, cut with a deep V at front, sometimes had filler (stomach) of contrasting color inserted under the V
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panes
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(slashings) narrow strips of fabric under which contrasting linings were places, that decorated garments
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petticoat
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part of an outer garment, an underskirt that was worn with an onver dress, gave hourglass sillhouette
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slops
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narrow waist to fullness at mid thigh type of trunk hose, could be called gallygaskins
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spanish farthingale
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(verdugale) construction of whalebone, cane, or steel hoops graduated in size from waist to floor and sewn into petticoat or underskirt that provided support, cone shaped
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spanish work
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especially fashionable embroidery, consisted of delicate black silk figures worked on fine white linen, often applied to neck band and wrists of
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stays
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forerunner of the corset, linen under bodice made from two layers of fabric stiffened with glue in English
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stomacher
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a filler of color inserted under the V of a paltock
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supportasse
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frame that was one way of supporting sheer linen or lace ruffs
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trunk hose
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large padded breech that was joined to nether or lower stocks, upper hose and nether hose evolved into it
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upper stocks
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also called breeches, cut fuller than the lower section, styles varied: fitting leg closely and ending at knee, or at hip and more rounded-could be paned with contrasting fabric, various sleeve styles
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venetians
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skintight version that was wide at top and tapering to the knee, of breeches that were separate garments worn together with separate stockings
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verdugale
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construction of whalebone, cane, or steel hoops graduated in size from waist to floor and sewn into a petticoat or underskirt that provided support
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