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Renaissance clothing by the 16th century they had become wide spread across Euope ar lest Wesrern Europe. (Much of southeastern Europw as contrimmed by the Ottoman sor Muslim Knates. The far eastern area were contrlled bt the Russians which were unaffected by the Renaissance. Dress-like robes contunued to be worn by older men. Theses robes have not entirely dissapeared, we still see them see un academic robes. Many prestigious universities have their origins during this poeriod. There ere no dedicated childrens clothes, excepor for very young children. From a very early age, children comntinued to be dressed like minature adults. Headwear was the garment that varied the most over time. We see mostly soft headwear, styles similar to what we see in Tudor England. The primary top garments were a shirt and doublet The primary bottom garments were the trunk hose annd hose. This major Renaissance combinaton was linnen shirt, doublet, trunk-hose/breeches, and hose appeared with the Renaisance . The basic combination of hose for the lower legs and breeches for the waist and upper legs (13th centuries), but stylin, cut, and colors varied overtiime. A major change in thev 16th century was in the color. The bright colors seen in the 14th-15th centuries were less common. We see more muted colors. This was the Spanish influenve in which blacl was fashionable. (Black was an extremly diffucult dye to profuce and thus costlky dye.) The shirt was normally done in linnen. Linnen could be produced in Europe. Cotton at the time was a luxury fabric. The other principal top garment was the doublet (jupe, jupon, gipon, paltok, gambeson, and pourpoint). This was a close-fitting outer garment done with and without sleeves. Sometimes doublet skirts, usually short lengths not extending much below the waistline. The doublet was done many forms, basically as a vest or jacket. The doublet might be slasjed and padded and commonly matched with the trunk-hose. Trunk-hose (upper-stocks) were the baggy and usually slashed and padded short breeches worn over the leg hose. They were essentially bag-like short pants that billow out from the waist--one fashion historian calls them pumpkin breeches. Another fashioin expert licken them to wearing two baloons. They varried in lngth ovr time. Many were verty short, emdong at the upper thigh. Other might extend tos the knee. They first appeared (mid-16th century and continued to be fashionable (early 17th bcentury). They would evolve into pantalooms and knee breeches. The Dutch would call them knickerbockers. The hose were made from a loosely woven fabric. They were cut on the bias (diagonally). They were made to fit snugly so as to show off the shape and mussles of the legs. This was in sharp contrast to womem whose leggs were hidden behind dresses which fell to he floor.

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