The Northern Renaissance

Northern Renaissance

(1500-1600)

• fashion gave the people cross culteral influences from people like the Turks
  
• knitting machine braught new advances for knitting stockings
• spanish work, an intricate type of embroidery, was seen on chemises and mens shirts
• 16th century-bobbin and needlepoint lace were introduced
• styles changed more rapidly
• women wore stomachers that cound be interchanged in the area where the deep V was prominent
• fullness of the clothing was popular
• the ruff came into costume which was a large starched collar, seperate from the shirt
• the stays (forerunner to the corset) was worn by women
• under and outer dress dilipated while the petticoat came into womens dress for fullness
• bum rolls, as well as French and Spanish farthingales were devices used to expand the dress and expand width of the waist