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Cathedral, pointed arches, flying buttress, pointed spires, lots of stained glass, gargoyle - mythical beasts. |
Liripipe/Bardocucullus with dagging on the edge, tippet tails on sleeve and hood, pourpoint/cotehardie, poulaine/crackow pointed shoes, hose (chaus). |
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Chaperon (liripipe/bardocucullus wrapped around the head as a hat). |
Exaggerated length of sleeves - man in the foreground kneeling wears a gardicorps with exaggerated sleeves. |
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Note pointed shoes - poulaines/crackows, reached up to lengths of 2 - 3 feet long, stuffed with hay, sometines chained points to knees to walk. Short pourpoint, hose. Note: hint of codpiece to come. |
Generic Gothic, note change to bulkier colthes bulkier men's jackets, length important to silhouette, hennin, fur lined surcoat called a pelicon. |
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Houppelande with dagging on sleeves,chaperon on head (red), women in foreground talking to men - houppelande. Note: pregnancy look, seated women wear bliaut |
Houppelande in long and short versions, dagging on edges, chaperon with a roundlet hat (doughnut shape). |
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Assorted variations of houppelande and chaperon with roundlet. |
"Pregnancy look" was popular due to the effects of the plague. They wore a pillow under the gown to create the effect.Wimple on head, woman in houppelande, men - fur lined tabard (sandwich board) pelicon, on floor are pattens - wood shoes to protect slipper shoes. |
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Pregnancy look - parti-colored clothes, women bliaut, chemise; men - pourpoint/cotehardie, hose, estivaux (boots). |
Houppelande, hennin headress - stiff hat form with veils, shape of henin was a clue to nationality, top veil - guimp, veil on head under hat - wimple. |
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Figures are in assorted houppelande, young men have bonnet hats, women pointed hennin with a guimp, note absence of woman's hair. |
Bliaut, hennin with guimp. Note: Mollycoddle love lock in center of forehead. |
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Courtship - assorted gothic styles - hennin, houppelande, surcoat, tabards, hose, poulaines/crackows. |
The marketplace - houppelande, chaperon and roundlet, during this time there was a change from feud alism and self-sufficiency to a market economy - guilds, shops, currency develops. |
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