Fashion Historical of Renaissance Clothing

The sixteenth century (1500) was a time of great change for women’s Renaissance fashion. Early sixteenth-century women are very similar fashion to the medieval dress. The styling of a typical outfit of the early Renaissance woman from a kirtle and gown with a cone-shaped skirt and long train. Square neck bodice had lines, decorated with lace and edgings of fine jewelry. Sleeves were very wide, often slightly with fur. Tailles dipped slightly and skirts were for decorative kirtle underneath.

Around 1525, Renaissance women began wearing a kirtle in its own right. Be worn without a dress would be in conjunction with a belt decorated. Unlike latex underwear today a Renaissance band was on a belt at the waist and worn with tassels and chains of gold and precious stones. As the Spanish House of Habsburg in power, the Spanish fashion was popular in Western Europe, in the beginning of the 1550th Spanish fashion look burdensome on women, the least to say. The dress is in a complex of wire cages, steel and canvas, called farthingales, Renaissance women were trapped inside. At that moment, the Renaissance women chemises discarded, and the top and skirt were separate, rather than a garment. Trains less fashionable and sleeves were tight fitting of the wrist to the elbow, with large poofed shoulders, strongly colored works. It was popular among women and men's fashion.

Black velvet, brocade and silk ate a perfect backdrop for the elaborate decoration covered with jewels, the clothes of the upper class. By the late 1500s large standing ruffs, called cartwheel ruffs, became popular and needed to be wired for support. Spanish fashion gave way to the French domination (again). Elizabeth I preferred the French farthingale above the Spanish Farthingale. Other trademarks or late sixteenth-century fashion crashes were neck lines and deep V-shaped waist, sometimes called wasp waist.