World fashion history

HUM 385: Cultural History of Fashion (Alternatives to Nudity)

17th Century Europe

Flourishing of Science

Challenge to authority (political and religious)

Colonization of the "New World"

ART: Bernini, Vermeer, Rubens, Brueghel, Van Dyke, Velazquez, Rembrandt

MUSIC: Monteverdi, Lully, Pachelbel, Purcell, Scarlatti

SCIENCE: Bacon, Hooke, Halley, Pascal, Newton, Descartes, Galileo,

Picard, Leibniz, Boyle, Harvey

LITERATURE: Locke, Johnson, Hobbes, Spinoza, Corneille, Moliere

Calderon, Milton, Racine

BAROQUE A dramatic style popular in Europe from the early 17th to mid-18th century with bold, curving forms, dark vibrant colors and elaborate ornamentation,

Cavaliers, Musketeers

shirt (M)

falling ruff/ jabot (collar)

stomacher with busk (F bodice)

"en suite" (M matching coat and pants)

waistcoat

petticoat breeches

(perruque( or full bottom wig (M)

fontage (F headress)

PURITAN A style symbolic of the Protestant Reformation that stressed simplicity, humility and piety. Primarily English but strongly influenced by the Dutch.

Pilgrims

"roundhead" (M hair style)

falling band (M & F collar)

apron (F)

"sadd colours"