Maria Stuarda Breaks Tradition and Bride White Dress
Mary Queen of Scots in white wedding gown 24 April 1558 Maria Stuarda (1542-1587) He married the Dauphin of France, Then the king by the name of Francis II, wearing [...]
Empire: Fashion Female in Napoleonic Period
Josephine Beauharnais, Napoleon's first wife, with a dress "Empire style" The French women's fashion of the First Empire, from 1804 al 1814, He diverged greatly from the previous one: [...]
Male Underwear: Brief History of Braghetta
Portrait of a man of the '500 (the work is Il Parmigianino) wearing a flashy "codpiece" During the '500 spread among men the use of a [...]
Fashion of the '400 Male: Panties to Vista
Men's fashion of the '400 (by Giovanni di Ser Giovanni): separate socks with pants "to view" In the picture attached you can see a detail of The game civettino, [...]
Calzabraga: i “Leggings” (Men) '400
Adoration of the Magi by Luca Signorelli (particular): the two young men depicted wearing the typical calzabraga fifteenth What you see in the image is reproduced in a particular Adoration of the Magi (1495) [...]
Being Magre in Victorian Period
Women Victorian era. Being thin was an imperative of beauty which you could not escape Each historical period has its own aesthetic rules, but the thinness, [...]
The “panties”
One of the '700 French nobleman wearing culottes A typical garment of men's fashion eighteenth century behind the French Revolution were the culottes, as written [...]
Hairstyles “Thought provoking” (and Incredibles) the Court of Versailles
A lady at the hairdresser in '700. Some extravagant hairstyles sported by ladies in Versailles made time for a certain period of time at the court of Versailles ladies [...]
Egyptians: They dressed like the Ancient Inhabitants of the Nile?
Typical clothing of the Egyptians Most of the information on how to dress the Egyptians learn from the wall paintings of the tombs and archeology. In the depicted scenes [...]
Renaissance: the Prime “Boutiques” Italian
An ancestor of our boutiques: "the tailor's shop", a fresco of the Issogne Castle (Valle d'Aosta) Milano, Florence, Bologna, Genoa and Venice became, in full Renaissance, [...]
