Renaissance Fashion

Through out the renaissance era, the renaissance fashion had varieties of the different styles. The styles from Italian and Germanic designers had their influence over European wear. Both Italian and Germanic designers brought something new and thrilling era of Renaissance fashion clothing.

In that time period fashion for the wealthy often meant spending most of their money on clothes. They mostly wear dark colors or jewels that were sewn into the clothing. But the richer you were the fabric was more expensive. They have silk, Brocade ,Velvet and cotton which was very expensive and was highly taxed put it was mostly produced in woman’s fashion in European Renaissance for the women it was a three piece that includes a underskirt , bodice and robe. The Richer people had up to five or more pieces: Skirt, underskirt, Bodice, over bodice or vest, hoop and collar. They weren’t allowed to show no hair, Most of them had long heard so it had to be breaded then covered.

The European wedding dresses was made of rich brocades and rich jewels, just as we do now people wear their finest clothing. The bride usually wears her hair down and the dress was not white either that was much later. When the color white was their color to get married in, but their was a popular fashion that they had that the lower class had invented was the “technique of slashing”. But the royal people had passed a law that commoners could only use one color. So then they made another thing. That they bought two fabrics but one was like see tree so then you can see the other color. They did their clothes like that even the men started doing that even to their shoes.

During the renaissance era, fashion was an important role in both the men and women lives. They bot...

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... the Sleeves, The Sleeves became tight from the wrist to the elbow with some large poofed shoulders. It was poofed and slashed to show colorful insets, this fashion style was also known as leg of mutton sleeve. This style was popular for both men and women. It took many hours to get dressed because the clothes were hard to put on. It consisted of many pieces and buttons. The greatest color of the day was black to elaborate jeweled decorations that showed the upper class. The dresses that women wore were combined with pearls, Rubies, and diamonds and many other beautiful stones that made their way across the Atlantic to Western Europe. The woman’s cloths started with the girls under cloths which is a chemise or a loose garment to go to sleep at night. It is mostly warn above the bodice or through the sleeves but it is warn under your cloths which are normally hidden.