medieval costume workshop 1100 – 1500 ad. clothing terms barbette and ff fillet
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Medieval Costume Workshop
1100 – 1500 AD
Clothing terms
• Barbette and FF Fillet
Bliaut or Bliaud
Braiesmen’s baggy undergarment worn next to the skin.
Caul
Chemise as seen in this early 1400's illumination Dionysus I humiliates the women of Locri.
Circlet
Coif
Cowl
• Large softly draped collar or hood
HenninVariations• Steeple• Truncated• Horned
Houppelande15th century fashion--Christine de Pisan presents her book to Queen Isabeau, who wears a figured houppelande lined in ermine with a broad collar
KirtleAlso known as: cote, cotte, cotte-hardie
LiripipeThe elongated point of the hood
Mantle
Parti-coloured
Poulaines“Named after its inventor, the poulaine was a shoe whose tip was a long as two feet for princes and noblemen, one foot for rich people of lower degree, and only half a foot for common people. Such shoes proved a hazard among the French Crusaders at the battle of Nicopolis (1396) when they had to cut off tips in order to be able to run away.”
Roundlet
Surcote
Tabard
Tippits
ToqueA closed top hat worn by women that developed from the fillet; it is a brimless hat with a flat crown with upright sides; a pillbox hat.
Tunic
Wimple