Pictorial References for Clothing

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Right Wing of the Moreel Tryptich, Memling, 1484. Good example of Henins, Gowns and Wide Girdle
 
Portrait by Rogier Van der Weyden in 1455. Thought to be Marie de Valengin, Illegitimate daughter of Philip the Good of Burgundy

Portrait completed in Rogier Van der Weyden workshop 1464.  The ladywears a simple woollen dress, and would have been lower in social rank than the portrait on the left.

Detail from Hans Memling's St. Ursula Shrine Showing simple kirtles

Front laced Kirtle 1470

Pinned sleeves on kirtle from the Braque Family Tryptych, Rogier Van der Weyden, 1450

From Rene d'Anjou tournament book. Both high status women, the lady on the right is wearing a fine example of a butterfly henin.

Miniature from Girart de Roussillon, French, 1448.  Shows masons working on a church bare-headed and wearing hats.

A manuscript in the British Library shows the King's bench wearing coifs.  All beneath them are bare headed.  Circa 1450.

'Fashionable Hat' 1475.  Antonello de Messina

The Martyrdom of St. Apolline from the Hours of Etienne Chevalier, 1445, showing men wearing parti-couloured hose.

Illustration showing flat turned riding boots from the Monforte Altarpiece, 1470.

Miniature from a 15thC Manuscript in the British Museum, London. Shows high status Ladies in gowns trimmed in fur, Gentlemen wearing
short and long (open) gowns both with split sleeves.

Centrepiece of the Donne Family Triptych by Hans Memling 1477, depicting the English Knight Sir John Donne and his Family

Workers from the Tres Riches Heures du Duc De Berry. Early 15th Century

  

Worker from the Tres Riches Heures du Duc De Berry. Early 15th Century

Henry VI

Edward IV

Elizabeth Woodville
 

 

Richard III

Henry VII
 

 

 Left:  'How a man schall be armyd at his ese when he schal fighte on foote' 1450

'Also a payre of hosyn of stamyn sengill and a peyre of shorte bulwerkis of thynne blanket to put about his kneyes for chawtgeof his ligherness'

(And he should wear a pair of hose made of worsted cloth.  Around the knees should be wrapped 'bulwarks' of thin blankets to reduce the chafing by the leg harness)