Medieval and Renaissance Headdress Fashion

In the history of clothing, the hat is part of the right clothes. Perhaps helped create a kind of scarf, when humanity began to declare war against each other, especially as a form of protection for the head. Finally, when Christianity was introduced and during the early medieval civilization spread to people, especially women, began to incorporate some form of the head to take care of their medieval clothes.

In addition, thick hair neatly known Crespin limited to the sides of the head. At that time there were people walking around with clothes exposed Tristan head.

The extravagant headdress was Hennin, a cone-shaped hat with a wired frame covered with cloth and covered with a veil. They wore doublets and hose are characteristic of late medieval menswear shows extravagant headdresses high-hats with short border or borderless.

When the time of the Renaissance in Western civilization, headgear burgeoned in their work the best. Since the different regions of the Old World with their own style of Renaissance clothing, began to develop a variety of headgear that bloomed with the right clothes. Unique in Britain was the front hood, a wired headdress, the shape of the facade of a house. To be completed men, inspired on the other hand, large pancake hats wore their dress of Henry VIII Tudor.

By the time Elizabeth I was a known way to influence, have been headdress complete decorative accessories to Renaissance costumes reduced to. Caul and bear Coif still in fashion for women with complicated adhere strictly to hairstyles in position while the men are gathered in the hats, flat cap crown, but eventually became larger.