FASHION OF THE 1500-1600’S IN ENGLAND

INFANTS

• Both girls and boys wore a long sleeved gown that covered their legs.
• To keep their heads warm in cold weather their wore a wool or linen cap called a biggin that tied under their chin.

TODDLERS

• Both girls and boys still worn gowns,also the gown had strings attached to keep them from falling down.
• They also had paddingbut their called it “pudding”,which was a wrap like thing to cover the child’s forehead, therefore if they fell they would not be seriously injured.

BOYS

• When they get to school age, they wore a doublet, or a fitted jacket, over a shirt and wool petticoats.
• When the parents felt it was the right time, the parents would let their boy wear pants or pants.
• This time in a boy’s life is called “ nreeching”. Which is where a boy change his status, to where he starts to spend more time with his farther.

BOYS

• Under the boy’s pants they were tights, tied up with ribbons to keep their pants from falling down.

GIRLS

• Girls continued wearing a bigger version of their nursery gown until the age of 7 years old.
• At that age a girl has to wear a boned corset over her chemise, which is a undergarment similar to a full slip.
• Also girls wore a waistcoat over their corset. In which this resembled a boy’s doublet, fitted and typically made of heavy cotton or wool.

GIRLS

• Beneath both those 2 things, a girl wore one or more petticoats, which help them keep warm in the colder weather.
• Lastly girls wore stockings held up by garters,

BOYS AND GIRLS

• As both started to get older they dressed more like adults.

MEN

• During the 1500s and 1600s wore tunics and doublets reaching the knee, belted at the waist and stuffed in the chest and upper sleeves
• Flat, wide hats were also worn

MEN

• Shirts were cut full and gathered at the wrists and necks.
• However, by the end of the period, short pumpkin-shaped trunk hose were worn with tight hose to show off a man`s legs.

MEN

• Men began wearing corsets to slim their torso.
• They also acquired the v-shaped waist line similar to what women would have worn. 

WOMEN

• Women Peasants during the 1500s and 1600s wore long full skirts and long sleeved shirts.
• They had very plain colors such as brown, gold or rust. Men peasants wore plain boots, breeches and a shirt and a vest.

WOMEN

• Women wore jewels, pearls, gold, lace, and techniques such as slashing and puffing were used.
• Womens outfits were always lavished with jewels, ribbons and lace. 

Men-

How Family Dressed

Women-

Girls

Boys

Babiesand Toddlers

WORK CITED

• http://prezi.com/
• https://oureverydaylife.com/childrens-clothes-in-the-1600s-12521103.html