1500–50 in Western European fashion

The 16th century, the era of the Renaissance and the Reformation and time of spiritual turnaround, also brought a transformation in the costume. The costume should the body no longer wrap tightly, but allow for comfortable movement and in contrast to the earlier period appear free and dignified at the same time.

The model offered the costume of the mercenaries with their feature of the slit and feeding. Main garments of the men in this period around 1530 were jerkin, pants, Schaube and beret. On jerkin the slots found on the chest, on the back, but especially on the sleeves, either throughout or in part looking only at the elbow and upper arm; but while the shirt sticking out through the slots in the doublet was also slotted the pants, especially the arisen at this time wide thigh pants to cover the nakedness, lined with a colorful, mostly silk fabric.

The Schaube that in making all or part of looking lost her sleeves and worn only by citizens and particularly from scholars with long wide sleeves was and with a falling down the back collar of another material (usually fur ) was adorned, and also the now broadly rounded Shoes ( Bärenklauen, duck bills, Kuhmaulschuhe ) and the beret were provided with slots. With the help of the slot mode, the costume was extremely colorful.

Then there was that one (including Yellow, Blue, Red, White) wore the now separate from the pants stockings often in one leg or both legs with wide vertical stripes in bright colors compilation. The doublet initially provided with a deep, pointed flap was immediately cut square, so that also moved up in the former case, the neck freely transmitting shirt and the neck encircled with a collar. The cloak held only among the young until well into the second decade of the 16th century, it acknowledged the Schaube the field completely.

Also changed in the Reformation period the costume of women. The skirt was cut on the breast round or square and let the shirt or an embroidered application see; since 1530 but it was closed more like the men's costume in the neck. The train was shorter, the sleeves were, however, longer and narrower, so that they covered half the hand. Moreover, the latter were either not slit provided at a premium or provided with slots on the forearm or elbow, probably have to cut across the shoulder, elbow, or in both places and angenestelt again, so that the shirt did well bulky.

The head is covered, the men wore the beret like to put the wrong mercenaries in flat form on one ear and then fastened with a storm band under the chin or on the calotte. The women wore the hood, since 1520 the calotte and when going out the beret on the nature of the mercenaries.

• Kostümkunde the Renaissance
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