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Dutch watercolour (c. 1575) of "Irish in the service of the late king Henry (VIII)" depicting a léine. Arms, Armour, and Dress in Ireland a.d. 1521., an illustration by Albrecht Dürer found in the 1914 book Muiredach, abbot of Monasterboice, 890-923 A. D.; his life and surroundings. Little is known about Irish apparel before the twelfth century.
Survey of historic costume: A history of Western dress (2nd ed.). New York: Fairchild Publications. ISBN 1-56367-003-8. Van Buren, Anne H. Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands, 1325–1515. New York: Morgan Library & Museum, 2011. ISBN 978-1-9048-3290-4
Portrait of the family of Sir Thomas More shows English fashions around 1528.. Fashion in the period 1500–1550 in Europe is marked by very thick, big and voluminous clothing worn in an abundance of layers (one reaction to the cooling temperatures of the Little Ice Age, especially in Northern Europe and the British Isles).
Glossary of some medieval clothing terms Archived 2016-12-28 at the Wayback Machine; La Cotte Simple – a site with detailed research information and instructions on the construction of 14th- and 15th-century European clothing, especially female dresses
Dress for women was more loosely fit compared to the previous century and somewhat more modest, the era from about 1220 onward having notably been characterised as the 'elegant period' in Gothic dress according to Ortwin Gamber. A narrow belt was uniform, which could be richly decorated with metal plating in various colours such as blue and green.
The Kinsale cloak (Irish: fallaing Chionn tSáile), worn until the twentieth century in Kinsale and West Cork, was the last remaining cloak style in Ireland. It was a woman's wool outer garment which evolved from the Irish cloak, a garment worn by both men and women for many centuries. Image from an old postcard showing a woman wearing a ...
The scenes of the era were both divine and mundane, from Hans Memling’s luminous nativity scene, circa 1480, to Bruegel’s depiction of an angry wife hauling home her intoxicated husband, circa ...
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.