Transitional Female costume between the Elizabethan and Charles I modes. Elizabethan fashion 1550 to 1620.
Category: Tudor
An Elizabethan man’s outfit. Woman wearing a Spanish farthingale.
The man and woman shown here are wearing typical ensembles of the Elizabethan era. The man is somewhat of a dandy. The woman is wearing a Spanish farthingale.
Feminine Elizabethan ensemble of the 16th c. England Tudor era.
The woman shown here might very well be the Queen herself. White and black were likewise popular and always appeared somewhere in the color scheme.

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Typical and splendid examples of Elizabethan clothing in the 16th century.
The Elizabethan era is probably regarded by many as the most dramatic and colorful period in the history of western dress.
Elizabethan. Explorer of noble rank. Woman of the upper classes.
Tudor period. English Renaissance. Explorer of noble rank. Woman of the upper classes. Elizabethan fashion history.
Elizabethan peasant costume scene. Woman with children 1550-1620.
England Tudor. Elizabethan peasant costumes 1550-1620.
England Tudor. The peasants’ dresses during the reign of Henry VIII.
England Tudor. Peasant clothing from 1500 to 1550, during the reign of Henry VIII. Renaissance 16th century. History of costume.
Hall of Boughton-Malherbe, County of Kent. Elizabethan England.
Reception hall of Boughton-Malherbe, County of Kent at the time of Elisabeth 1573. English Renaissance. Tudor period.
Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of the English King Henry VIII.
Anne of Cleves (1515 – 1557) was the fourth wife of the English King Henry VIII.
Woman’s dress. Fashion in Europe 16th & 17th century. Ruffs. Hairstyles.
The Italian fashion in France. The collars of the dresses. Metal and wooden corsets. Display of fine lingerie. The passementerie works and laces. The rules of etiquette. The expansion of ruffs.

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