PRESENTATION ON 15TH CENTURY WOMEN’S COSTUME

1. PRESENTATION ON
15TH CENTURY WOMEN’S COSTUME

2. Costumes for women:15th century
Drawn towards luxury,
fashion and sophistication

3.  Smock : undermost
garment for women.
Its “called chemise” in
French.
 Chimese were
embriodered at the
neck and arms.
 Houppelandes : long
belted, slightly above
the waistline, soft
shoulder line.

4.  Collar style: high
standing collar, open at
the front to form a sort
of winged effect, or flat
turned down collar
around a V shaped or a
round neckline.

5. Sleeve variation
 Consisted of huge funnel
shapes,
 lined in contrasting
colours or fur,
 Reaching to the ground,
 Bagpipe sleeves,
 Plain tubular sleeves
turned at the back to the
end to show contrasting
cuffs,
 Hanging sleeves,
 Usually tubular in shape.

6. GOWN
 Known as Cote or cotte in french.
 Two gowns were worn, one over the other,
 In England women wore cote hardies with
hanging tippets,
 In France, Upper class women wore gowns
cut with low necks and closely fitted bodices
that emphasized the breast and full long
skirts.
 Sleeves on dresses might be closed fitted
from shoulder to wrist or hanging wide, full,
and funnel shaped.

7.  Gown style evolved in the 2nd half of the
century.
 Rigid, tube shaped pleats were replaced
by a soft gathered fullness in women’s
dresses.
 Bodice developed a deep V, sometimes
reaching to the waist.

8.  Edges of the V
were turned
back into revers
generally lined
in a contrasting
color or fur.
 Revers: lapels
that turned back
to show the
underside.

9.  V required a modesty piece or filler
placed across the bodice.
 Wide stiff belt encircled the waist.

10. When V-shaped revers were set further out on the shoulders,women wore a
transparent linen fabric piece pinned to the garment at the neck line,shoulders
and back to secure it in place.

11.  Earlier the cut of the bodice was soft with
fullness caught in by the belt.
 As style evolves, the cut became more
tailored and the bodice fitted.
 Skirts were long.
 Border was in the fabric of which the
revers were made.

12. Roc
 Another form of general term
frock
 Loose fitting gown
 Bodice cut with a round neck
line
 Cascade of gathers or pleats
at the center of the front and
the back.

13.  Unbelted and
made in soft
fabric.
 Dress fell loose
and unfitted to
the ground.
 Sleeve were
fitted,long or
short.

14.  In short sleeves, the gown was worn over
a long sleeved under dress.
 Hooded cloaks were worn for bad
weather
 Mantels worn over matching gowns and
fastened with chains at the front.

15. HAIR & HEADDRESS
• The queens, brides and girls
were allowed to show their
hair at the coronations.
• Respectable women were
supposed to cover their hairs
.
• No hair was visible around
the edges of the fanciful
headdress that became
fashionable, therefore having
a smooth forehead was
popular.

16. HEADDRESS
• Wide headdresses from side to side( 1st
half of the century).
• Hair was generally placed in a net if the
headdress did not fully cover the hair.
• Veils were draped over the entire
structural forms that were placed on the
head.
• In 2nd half of the century the headdress
grew taller.

17. Size and shape
• Flat- topped
• High crowned
• Brimless hat ( 4-5 inches),
known as HENNIN( enormous
cone-shaped, peaked hat that
was as much as a yard high).
• Veils , ideally sheer were
pinned and draped over the
headdress.

21.  Thankyou..