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Middle Gothic


Ca. 1325 - 1425

Russell, Douglas Costume History and Style; chapter 9, pp. 139-156

Glossary:

Bellows or bagpipe sleeve: A gathered sleeve having a cuff and a long vertical slit through which the hand could pass.

Caul (also crepine, crestine, crespinette, tressure, tressour): A woman’s    medieval headdress in which the hair was concealed in two silken, half-spherical cases on either side of the head covered with heavy net of reticulated gold or silver cord interspersed with pearls and beads.

Chaperon: A caped hood with long tai, or liripipe, worn with the face opening around the head and the liripipe wound about the head and then draped under the chin.

Corset: A fitted garment worn over the chemise with skirt attached and usually laced up the front.

Crackow or poulaine: A long-tipped hose and shoe introduced during the reign of Richard II and named after the city of Crackow in Poland; later the length of the toe became so long that it had to be tied to the knee.

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