Renaissance Clothing Essay

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Renaissance Clothing Renaissance was known as the “Golden Age” and also for its exquisite clothing. Men, women, and children wore clothing which was made out of silk, brocade, velvet, and cotton. Clothing had a significant societal importance because people could tell by your clothing if you were from the upper class or the lower class. Many people in hard times would pawn their clothes, even kings and queens were known to have pawned their clothes. In the Renaissance upper class women were known for wearing five pieces of clothing which were skirt, underskirt, bodice, underbodice, or vest, hoop and collar. And then lower class women were known for wearing three pieces of clothing which were underskirt, bodice, and robe. This helped maintain Renaissance social structures since the lower classes didn’t wear the same fashion as the upper class. Upper class men were known for wearing doublet, jerkin, and hose, cloak, hat, long shirt, drawers, and heavily padded peascod doublet. Lower class men were known for wearing joined hose, codpiece, or straight, loose trousers falling to mid-calf, with a loose coat over their shirt hanging to mid-thigh, and belted with a bit of cord. The Renaissance Period caused fashion to change forever. It was a period that set the stage for years to come. Beauty and the idea of looks were more important than the health of those who wore them. Because of the excessive padding in most of the garments, people's movements were restrained them and walking was a difficultly. People went to any length to outdo each other in their garments. As the period went on the decorative details got more and more elaborate leading up to the Elizabethan Age. The Renaissance influenced all the countries around them. Many countries copied the Renaissance "look", because of the elegance and beauty of the clothing. The fashions of the Renaissance period were

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