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A kirtle (sometimes called cotte, cotehardie) is a garment that was worn by men and women in the European Middle Ages.It eventually became a one-piece garment worn by women from the late Middle Ages into the Baroque period.
Bridegroom wears a red cotehardie, hose, and hood. Italy, 1350s. [24] Man in a particolored cotehardie of reddish brown and plaid fabric. The cotehardie fits snugly and is buttoned up the front. A narrow belt is worn around the hips. Detail of the Altarpiece of St. Vincent, Catalonia, late 14th century. Huntsman wears side-lacing boots, late ...
The cotte (or cote) was a medieval outer garment, a long sleeved shift, or tunic, usually girded, and worn by men and women. In medieval texts, it was used to translate tunica or chiton. Synonyms included tunic or gown. It was worn over a shirt , and a sleeveless surcote could be worn over it. By the sixteenth century, it had become a woman's ...
With England and France mired in the Hundred Years War and its aftermath and then the English Wars of the Roses through most of the 15th century, European fashion north of the Alps was dominated by the glittering court of the Duchy of Burgundy, especially under the fashion-conscious power-broker Philip the Good (ruled 1419–1469).
Woman wearing a one-piece bliaut and cloak or mantle, c. 1200, west door of Angers Cathedral.. The bliaut or bliaud is an overgarment that was worn by both sexes from the eleventh to the thirteenth century in Western Europe, featuring voluminous skirts and horizontal puckering or pleating across a snugly fitted under bust abdomen.
Detail of Spanish altarpiece by the "Master of Estamariu", late 14th century, showing a particoloured cotehardie with a three-colour, complex tartan. There is little written or pictorial evidence about tartan (much less surviving tartan cloth) from the Medieval era. Tartan use in Britain between the 3rd-century Falkirk tartan and 16th-century ...
15th century costume - the Houppelande. A houppelande or houpelande is an outer garment, with a long, full body and flaring sleeves, that was worn by both men and women in Europe in the late Middle Ages.
Gable hood with pinned-up lappets and a hanging veil. Mary, Lady Guildford, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1527.. A gable hood, English hood or gable headdress is an English woman's headdress of c. 1500–1550, so called because its pointed shape resembles the architectural feature of the same name.