NB: I am focusing here on the mid-15th century (as usual), and the lower classes (ie, not hennins)One of the main features of clothing which seems to distinguish between nationalities of the lower classes, AFAICT, is the style of headcoverings: ie, German headwrap-turbans, Flemish hoods with liripipes, and the French? white hoods with the tail wrapped around the head. But I am drawing a blank when I try to think of any characteristically English headcoverings. Then I draw a further blank when I try to think of any English illustrations of the lower classes at all, much less of lower class women with headcoverings.
Am I suffering from excessive exposure to computer rays, or is there really a giant vacuum of resources here? Has anyone seen any useful illustrations or descriptions or anything else which might indicate what kind of headcoverings might be appropriate here (ie, 1450-1475, England, lower class women)?
The MoW have a hood pattern ciculating which was extrapolated from a hood worn by a docent at a living history museum in England (York? I'm not sure where), which looks like this:
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posted 08-17-2001 08:36 PM
