ITEMS OF CLOTHING

THE KIRTLE

THE SURCOTE

MATERNITY WEAR

THE MANTLE

THE CORSET

TIPPETS

UNDERWEAR

HEADWEAR

BELTS & GIRDLES

JEWELLERY

PURSES & BAGS

SHOES

HEADWARE

VEILS

WIMPLES

HOODS

HATS

Headwear of the Middle Ages

The middle ages, particularly the 14th and 15th centuries, were home to some of the most outstanding and gravity-defying headware in history.

Before the hennin rocketed skywards, padded rolls and truncated and reticulated headdresses graced the heads of fashionable ladies everywhere in Europe and England. Cauls, the cylindrical cages worn at the side of the head and templers added to the richness of dress of the fashionable and the well-to-do. Other more simple forms of headdress included the coronet or simple circlet of flowers.

This page is broken into four sections:

- HEADWARE
The Fillet, The Torque or Pie Hat , Crowns and Coronets, The Attor de Gibet or the Horned Headdress, The Crispinette or Caul, Tressour Crispinette, Cylinder Cauls or Templars, The Heart Shaped Hennin and Reticulated headdress, The Hennin, The Flowerpot and Butterfly Hennin, The Horned Headdress Returns, The Jeweled Coif

- VEILS - embroidered, goffered, edged

- WIMPLES - not just for nuns!

- HOODS

- HATS

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