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HORNED HEADDRESS [1 record]

Record 1 2025-01-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hair Styling
  • Period Costumes (Museums and Heritage)
CONT

Fine transparent veils were a feature of elaborate head-dresses. The veil would be draped over a large horned head-dress or henin ... In the 1470s, for example, an older woman might still be wearing horns ... while her daughters wore the "butterfly" head-dress ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Coiffure
  • Costumes anciens (Muséologie et Patrimoine)
CONT

Ce qui est sûr, c'est qu'entre le XIVe et le XVe siècle, les excroissances sont à la mode : les femmes de la haute société mettent sous leur tuniques de petits sacs pour se donner un léger embonpoint - celui des riches bien nourris - elles portent des hennins qui forment comme un gros pain de sucre sur la tête et auquel est fixé un voile - plus ou moins long selon le rang social - et aussi des truffeaux, des coiffures à cornes pourvues d'armatures de métal, couvertes de tissus ou de cheveux, et elles aussi recouvertes d'un voile.

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