Tudors clothes: Tudor Clothes — Local Histories
Posted onTudor Clothes — Local Histories
By Tim Lambert
Dedicated to Yvonne Shaw
For rich Tudors fashion was important. Their clothes were very elaborate. For the poor clothes had to be tough and practical. All classes wore wool. However, it varied in quality. The rich wore fine quality wool. The poor wore coarse wool.
The Tudors used linen to make shirts and underwear. Only the rich could afford silk clothes. Rich Tudors also embroidered their clothes with silk, gold, or silver thread. Rich Tudor women wore silk stockings.
Tudor men wore short trouser-like garments called breeches. They also wore tight-fitting jackets called doublets. Another jacket called a jerkin was worn over the doublet. Over the jerkin, rich men wore a gown, or later in the 16th century a cloak or cape.
However instead of a doublet many workingmen wore a loose tunic. It was easier to work in. Some workingmen wore a leather jerkin called a buff-jerkin. Men also wore stockings or woolen socks, which were called hose.
Under their dresses, Tudor women wore a garment like a nightie called a shift or chemise. It was made of linen or wool. A linen or wool dress went over it. A woman’s dress was made of two parts, a bodice or corset-like garment and a skirt. Sleeves were held on with laces and could be detached. Working women wore a linen apron.
In the late 16th century many women wore a frame made of whalebone or wood under their dress called a farthingale. If they could not afford a farthingale women wore a padded roll around their waist called a bum roll.
In the 16th century, women did not wear knickers. However, Tudor men sometimes wore linen shorts as underwear.
All Tudors wore hats. Poor women often wore a linen cap called a coif. After 1572 by law all men except nobles had to wear a woolen cap on Sundays.
In the 16th century, buttons were usually for decoration. Clothes were often held together with laces or pins.
Furs in Tudor times included cat, rabbit, beaver, bear, badger, and polecat.
The Tudors used mostly vegetable dyes such as madder for red, woad for blue, or walnut for brown. However, you have to use a chemical called a mordant to fix the dye. The mordant changed the color of the dye e.g. a plant called weld was used with alum for yellow but if used with iron or tin it produced shades of green.
The most expensive dyes were bright red, purple, and indigo. Poor people often wore brown, yellow, or blue. Incidentally in the 16th-century scarlet was not color it was the name of fine, expensive wool.
It is a myth that in Tudor times people were very dirty and smelly. Most people tried to keep themselves clean but it was difficult to keep free of vermin. On the wreck of the Mary Rose, many lice combs were found. A bone ear scoop and a bone manicure set were also found.
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Tudor Fashion
Tudor England is famous for its beautiful and ornate clothing, particularly during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
Clothes were a means of displaying how wealthy a person was. Rich people could afford clothing made of fine wool, linen or silk. Their clothes were decorated with jewels and embroidered with gold thread.
No rich person felt properly dressed to impress unless he or she was wearing a ruff. Like so many Tudor clothes, it gave a strong signal about the wealth and importance of the person wearing it.
Rich ladies wore padded skirts held up with loops. Over these went bodices and colourful floor-length gowns.
Rich men wore white silk shirts, frilled at the neck and wrists. Over this they wore a doublet (a bit like a tight-fitting jacket), and close-fitting striped trousers (called hose).
Everyone wore their hair shoulder length.
Why did the Tudors wear ruffs and why did the ladies wear stomachers and have to cover themselves up?
It was all to do with fashion, a bit like ripped jeans are today.
It was the in thing to wear ruffs and for ladies to make their stomachs as small as they could by wearing corsets and wide skirts.
What did the poor wear?
Poor people wore simple, loose-fitting clothes made from woollen cloth. Most men wore trousers made from wool and a tunic which came down to just above their knee. Women wore a dress of wool that went down to the ground. They often wore an apron over this and a cloth bonnet on their heads.
| How do we know what the Tudors wore?
There are many paintings of Tudors especially the Tudor king and queens. By studying these paintings we can see what clothes were worn by the Tudors, especially rich Tudor people. |
Why did Tudor mens clothes look like a square and ladies triangular?
Women’s clothing gave them a triangular shape.
Their corsets were tight fitting making their waists very thin, while their petticoats and gowns were very wide.
Men’s clothes made them look square. They wore short jackets and the shoulders of their coat were cut wide.
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The Tudors — a series about the life of Henry VIII, his wives and the religious upheaval in 16th century England, about Mary and Elizabeth, his daughters who later became queens.
Despite some historical inaccuracies, the spirit of that era is conveyed in such a way that it takes your breath away, and the characters are shown very vividly and atmospherically: the vain but changeable Henry, the obedient believer Catherine of Aragon, the imperious and arrogant Anna Boleyn, the modest and loving Jane Seymour, a stranger in this country and timid Anna Klevskaya, silly in her youth Katherine Howard, wise Katherine Parr. excursion into the era of the events described.
First season (10 episodes). England, 1518-1530
The young and vain King Henry VIII is eager to take a leading position among other monarchs of Europe. In addition to participating in state affairs and secular entertainment, he also has to resist the spread of the Lutheran faith in his kingdom. But Henry’s main concern is the question of succession. Of all the children born during the years of marriage with Catherine of Aragon, only a girl survived — Princess Mary. His illegitimate son by Bessie Blount’s favorite, Henry Fitzroy, whom Henry planned to name as his successor, died in early childhood.
In an effort to acquire a son-heir, Henry decides to divorce Catherine and marry the ambitious beauty Anne Boleyn.
Second season (10 episodes). England, 1532-1536
As a result of the break with Rome, Henry becomes the supreme head of the Church of England and, having annulled his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, takes Anne Boleyn as his wife. His new marriage, however, does not bring the desired results, as the queen gave birth to a daughter, Princess Elizabeth. Having sent Anna to the scaffold on a false charge of adultery, the king intends to marry a third time — with Lady Jane Seymour.
Third season (8 episodes). England, 1536-1540
Dissatisfaction with the church reforms is growing in the kingdom, which turns into a major uprising in the northern counties, known as the Pilgrimage of Grace. After brutally cracking down on the rebels, Henry celebrates the birth of his heir, Prince Edward, but his joy is overshadowed by the death of Jane Seymour. Fearing an invasion by the Spaniards and the French, Henry seeks support from other European states and, at the urging of his minister Thomas Cromwell, marries the Protestant princess Anna of Cleves.
The king did not like the new wife, and a divorce soon follows, which entailed the execution of Cromwell.
Fourth season (10 episodes). England, 1540-1547.
In the final season, the emphasis is on the development of the king’s relationship with his last wives, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr, and the war between England and France is shown, in particular, the siege of Boulogne is illustrated in detail. In general, the final period of the life of Henry VIII Tudor is described.
Henry VIII Tudor, son and heir of King Henry VII of England, the second English monarch from the Tudor dynasty. With the consent of the Roman Catholic Church, the English kings were also called «Lords of Ireland», but in 1541, at the request of Henry VIII, who was excommunicated from the Catholic Church, the Irish Parliament gave him the title «King of Ireland». Educated and gifted, Henry ruled as a representative of European absolutism, by the end of his reign he severely persecuted his real and imaginary political opponents.
In later years, he suffered from excess weight and other health problems. Henry VIII is best known for the English Reformation, which made England a largely Protestant nation; and an unusual number of marriages for a Christian — in total, the king had 6 wives, of which he divorced two, and executed two on charges of treason. The king sought to produce a male heir to consolidate the power of the Tudor dynasty. The divorce of Henry VIII from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, led to the excommunication of the king from the Catholic Church and a series of church reforms in England, when the Anglican Church separated from the Roman Catholic Church. In addition, the constant change of wives and favorites of the king and the church reformation turned out to be a serious arena for political struggle and led to a number of executions of political figures, among which was, for example, Thomas More.
Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536). Daughter of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile.
She was married to Arthur, the elder brother of Henry VIII. Having been widowed (1502), she remained in England, expecting either an impending or an upset marriage with Henry. Henry VIII married Catherine immediately after his accession to the throne in 1509. The first years of marriage were happy, but all the children of young spouses were either born dead or died in infancy. The only surviving child was Mary (1516-1558). Around 1525, marital relations actually ceased, and Henry, who wanted to have a son, began to think about the annulment of the marriage. The formal reason for the divorce proceedings was Catherine’s previous marriage to Henry’s brother. The process, stretching for years, complicated by the intervention of Emperor Charles V (Catherine’s nephew) and the inconsistent position of Pope Clement VII, had no results. As a result, at the request of Henry, Parliament in 1532 passed a decision prohibiting any appeal to Rome. In January 1533, the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, announced the annulment of Henry and Catherine’s marriage.
After that, Catherine in official documents was called the Dowager Princess of Wales, that is, the widow of Arthur. By refusing to acknowledge the dissolution of her marriage, Catherine doomed herself to exile, being transported from castle to castle several times. She died in January 1536.
Anne Boleyn (c. 1507 — 1536). For a long time she was Henry’s unapproachable lover, refusing to become his mistress. After Cardinal Wolsey could not resolve the issue of Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon, Anna hired theologians who proved that the king is the lord of both the state and the church, and is responsible only to God, and not to the Pope in Rome (this was the beginning of the detachment of the English churches from Rome and the establishment of the Anglican Church). She became the wife of Henry in January 1533, was crowned on June 1, 1533, and in September of the same year gave birth to his daughter Elizabeth, instead of the son expected by the king.
Subsequent pregnancies ended unsuccessfully. Soon Anna lost her husband’s love, was accused of adultery and beheaded in the Tower in May 1536.
Jane Seymour (c. 1508 — 1537). She was a lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn. Heinrich married her a week after the execution of his previous wife. She soon died of puerperal fever. Mother of Henry’s only son, Edward VI. In honor of the birth of the prince, the cannons in the Tower fired two thousand volleys.
Anna of Klevskaya (1515-1557). Daughter of Johann III of Cleves, sister of the reigning Duke of Cleves. Marriage with her was one of the ways to seal the alliance of Henry, Francis I and the German Protestant princes. As a prerequisite for marriage, Heinrich wished to see the portrait of the bride, for which Hans Holbein Jr. was sent to Kleve. Heinrich liked the portrait, the engagement took place in absentia. But the bride who arrived in England (unlike her portrait) categorically did not like Henry.
Although the marriage was concluded in January 1540, Henry immediately began to look for a way to get rid of his unloved wife. As a result, already in June 1540, the marriage was annulled; the reason was the pre-existing engagement of Anna with the Duke of Lorraine. In addition, Heinrich stated that the actual marriage relationship between him and Anna did not work out. Anna remained in England as «the king’s sister» and survived both Henry and all his other wives. This marriage was arranged by Thomas Cromwell, for which he lost his head.
Catherine Howard (1521-1542). Niece of the mighty Duke of Norfolk, cousin of Anne Boleyn. Henry married her in July 1540 out of passionate love. It soon became clear that Catherine had a lover before marriage — Francis Durham, and cheated on Henry with his personal page, Thomas Culpeper. The guilty were executed, after which, on February 13, 1542, the queen herself ascended the scaffold.
Catherine Parr (c.
1512 — 1548). By the time of her marriage to Henry (1543), she had already been widowed twice. She was a staunch Protestant and did a lot for Heinrich’s new turn to Protestantism. After Henry’s death, she married Thomas Seymour, brother of Jane Seymour.
Mary I Tudor (1516-1558) — Queen of England from 1553, eldest daughter of Henry VIII from marriage to Catherine of Aragon. Also known as Bloody Mary (or Bloody Mary, English Bloody Mary), Catholic Mary.
Elizabeth I (September 7, 1533 — March 24, 1603), Good Queen Bess, The Virgin Queen — Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from November 17, 1558, the last of the Tudor dynasty. Youngest daughter of King Henry VIII of England and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. The reign of Elizabeth is sometimes called the «golden age of England», both in connection with the flourishing of culture (the so-called «Elizabethians»: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Bacon, etc.), and with the increased importance of England on the world stage (the defeat of the Invincible Armada, Drake, Reilly, East India Company).
Thomas More (Eng. Sir Thomas More, better known as Saint Thomas More; February 7, 1478, London — July 6, 1535, London) — English thinker, writer, humanist, saint of the Catholic Church.
and shots from the series and several promo:
My sympathy was given to the actor who played the Duke Suffolka (Henry Kaville), in the photo on the right:
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