Peasant Working Class 17th Century Clothing

While the fashions of the upper classes were changing with the decade or at least the century peasants and laborers stuck to the useful modest garments their progenitors had been clad in for generations during the middle ages.

Peasant working class 17th century clothing. But for the most part medieval european peasants wore very similar clothing in most countries from the 8th to the 14th century. By the mid 1650s in western europe much looser uncollected breeches called petticoat breeches became the most popular. 20 feb in the 17th century there was not really a peasant class or a evidently poor class of people rather the time period reflected that the richer you are the more intricate and colourful your clothing was. See more ideas about historical clothing historical fashion historical costume.

For men hose disappeared in favour of breeches. Fashion in the period 16001650 in western european clothing is characterized by the disappearance of the ruff in favour of broad lace or linen collars. The word is derived from 15th century french paisant meaning one from the pays or countryside. Other notable fashions included full slashed sleeves and tall or broad hats with brims.

Foreign visitors to england would often remark how well dressed the english women were one traveller has been quoted to say that english women would wear velvet on her back when she had not a crust of bread in her house. A peasant is an agricultural worker who generally owns or rents only a small plot of ground. This was the precursor to the dressing gown a long informal coat worn about the house for relaxing made from an exotic fabric such as silk or chintz. In the 17th and 18th century european mens fashions were influenced by eastern and oriental clothing and a garment called a banyan became popular.

See more ideas about historical clothing historical fashion renaissance fashion. It shows that england did not have the ragged poor of europe. Working class costume of 17th century women. These were stiff breeches which fell above or just below the knee and were rather moderately fitted.

The previous decade saw spanish breeches as the most popular. The artist rubens with his first wife c. During industrial revolution movement people were forced to pull away from the tradition of agriculture and to start considering work in the new industrial cities. Since the groin area is covered on many of the woodcut images the cheat of wearing looser pants will not show.

Feb 9 2020 explore esmolnyakovas board working class followed by 385 people on pinterest. Her long rounded stomacher and jacket like bodice are characteristic dutch fashions the. Of course as the centuries passed minor variations in style and color were bound to appear.