Costume Historian

For anyone with an interest in the history of clothing, dress, textiles, lace and embroidery, paricularly of the early modern period, 1550-1750

Monday, 6 August 2018

The Rebato

Figure 1: Underside of rebato in Metropolitan Museum, New York. CC For the purposes of this blogpost a rebato is a wired collar,...

Tuesday, 26 June 2018

Baby clothes: common and elite, written sources and survivals

Written Sources Detail from the Saltonshall Family, Tate Gallery In Thomas Deloney’s 1597 work The Gentle Craft, a list is giv...

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