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From the 16th century onwards, clothing constitutes the greatest example of ornamentation and luxury in the clothing of courtiers and bourgeois. To check the current offer, you can explore the collection of clothing accessories.
Silks, brocades, damasks, and velvets were the raw material of court costumes, encrusted with precious stones such as pearls, sapphires, rubies, emeralds, gold and silver threads that abounded in every centimeter of fabric that covered the body of the courtesans and members of the increasingly wealthy upper bourgeoisie.
Court fashion was characterized by its variety, richness of color and freedom, which underlined the individual character of Renaissance dress implicit in humanist thought.
The courtly costumes created their own style. At court, the most important and most imitated female character in her way of dressing was the queen, just as the king was in male court fashion.
The shape of the female dress with a very narrow waist, long and very wide, supported by the hangman on which the geometrically shaped skirts rested. Initially the chest and shoulders were covered, but later the necklines deepened, revealing the shoulders. To check the current offer, you can explore the collection of clothing.
On the contrary, there was among the popular people of the time, a cultural response to the dress of the aristocracy, trying to imitate it with a certain luxurious appearance, many decorations, ribbons, etc.
Peasant women and men, due to the rise of the fabric trade, could obtain a greater variety of textiles at better costs, also improving their clothing.
