2018年1月16日 · Tightly-laced corsets entered into popular fashion in the mid-to-late sixteenth century. The introduction of the steel corset into European female undergarments is apocryphally attributed to Catherine de’Medici in 1579 (Steele 2-7).

In the 15th and 16th centuries, Italian fashion was influenced by the art of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael. [5] Italian fashion was extravagant and expensive, crafted from velvet, brocade, ribbons, and jewels.

The first corsets likely originated in sixteenth-century Spain from bodice-like garments that were made with thick fabrics. The fashion spread from there to Italy, and then to France and (eventually) England, where it was called a pair of bodies, being made in …

2019年6月7日 · Hill describes Italian fashion at the start of the 16th century, writing that: “Sleeves became voluminous, and the arm opening dropped off the natural shoulderline emphasizing long necks and long, cascading hair. In the military fashion, doublets were commonly cropped at the waist to which the hose was attached.” (354)

2019年7月7日 · “from 1540 to 1575, male costume underwent a slow transformation, borrowing details from Flemish and Spanish fashion, while Italian influence decreased… The chamarre was replaced by the Spanish cape. Hose, which generally became longer, were fastened to the trunk hose (upper stocks) and made of knitted silk instead of tailored cloth.” (235)

2016年4月18日 · 15th Century. This century is called the quattrocento or the XV secolo. The basic vesti of this century are the guarnello and the gamurra. The guarnello is a working class front laced dress comprised of a smooth bodice and pleated skirt. It can be found in frescoes at Pellegrinaio di Santa Maria della Scala and the miniatures of Commentarii in ...

2024年2月18日 · Analyzing the clothing of the courtesan in 16th century Italy presents us with a myriad of complexities regarding representation in the contemporaneous visual culture of the period. In this post, I hope to unravel some of these intricacies regarding the dress of women who were in equal measure both mythologized and maligned in both visual…

Venetian chopines–platform shoes worn by wealthy women–were at the height (literally) of fashion in the 16th century. These tall shoes originated in the Near East, and probably made their way to Italy through Spain, where tall shoes made with cork soles were popular at the same time.

In the early 16th century, Italy was not yet Italy. Made up of individual city states, each region was ruled independently and there was often conflict between the major players. Dress could vary in style from region to region, some city's having their own rather distinctive trends.

There are only three extant Italian dresses from the 16th century: the crimson velvet Pisa dress made for one of Eleonora Di Toledo's ladies in waiting that was kept on a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary for several centuries and decayed to the point of great fragility; Eleonora Di Toledo's ivory funeral dress, buried with her and greatly ...