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Kirtles began as
loose garments without a
waist seam,
changing to
tightly ****ed
supportive garments in the 14th century. Later,[when?]
kirtles could...
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Kirtling,
together with
Kirtling Green and
Kirtling Towers, is a
scattered settlement in the south-eastern edge of the
English county of Cambridgeshire...
- The Lady of the
Green Kirtle, also
called Queen of
Underland and
Queen of the Deep Realm, is the main
antagonist in The
Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis. She...
-
Kirtling Tower was a
medieval castle and
Tudor country house in
Kirtling, Cambridgeshire, England, of
which the
gatehouse still remains. The
first do****entary...
-
seventeenth centuries. Some sa****uards were
intended to
protect skirts or
kirtles worn beneath. Mary Frith,
dramatised as the
character Moll
Cutpurse in...
- Over this, a man
might also wear an over-
kirtle, cloak, or a hood.
Servants and
working men wore
their kirtles at
various lengths,
including as low as...
-
Heures du duc de Berry.
Women raking hay work
barefoot and wear
their kirtles looped up over long-sleeved
linen smocks, Les Très
Riches Heures du duc...
- for
those who
could afford them,
although they were
often restricted to
kirtles,
undersleeves and
doublets revealed beneath gowns of solid-coloured fabrics...
- over a
kirtle or
petticoat (or both, for warmth).
Prior to 1545, the
kirtle consisted of a ****ed one-piece garment.
After that date,
either kirtles or petticoats...
- and ****ing, and also for
clothing such as doublets, ****hingales, and
kirtles.
Mockado was
introduced to
England from
Flanders in the mid-sixteenth century...
