Ready to wear (1640s style)

In the seventeenth century, shirts were made of unbleached linen, the fabric varying from coarse canvas to fine weave, and ranged from brown...

The basic item of underclothing for a woman in the seventeenth century the smock was a long T-shaped garment, made of linen with sleeves ...

Following a discussion that started over a picture from a 1640s publication showing a ballad seller, I asked a few experts their opinion of ...

Usually known for: a. The Little Mermaid b. the Tuborg Brewery c. The Tivoli Garden, Copenhagen is also home to a rather special museu...

There aren't many shirts left in existence from our period, let alone relatively basic ones, but this is an exception. It's kept in ...

On the face of it, a soldier’s coat is exactly that, a coat or overgarment. However in many pictures it is obvious that another layer was us...

Women of almost every degree in society wore an apron indoors and outdoors. It was a simple functional garment that was sufficiently common...