Dress in Köln: 1560-1570

[hsifeng]

The following two images are both from various “Kostüme der Männer und Frauen” books located on the BSB (original links here and here). They both appear to be images of women from Köln from around 1560-1570. As my character is from Köln (silver miners daughter ya’ll!) and I was considering making a ‘later period’ set of clothes for the Elizabethan events that I attend, I went looking for correct regional images.

 

Nice to see that they had a lot of variety of style in Köln….(*insert sarcasm here*)

Before someone jumps in, I know artists copied each other...*grin*

EDIT - more goodies!


 

Comments

[virginiadear.livejournal.com]

Greetings, Gea! And thank you! :-)

Alas, I don't read German. At least, not much, although I recognize names of dishes and some of the ingredients, and I do recognize a few words---mostly nouns. Modern ones only, I imagine.

I am very appreciative of this information. I've really got to get back to reading the German Ren Costuming list again. Probably it would be a good idea to learn some German, while I'm at it.

That matter of [named commodity] being controlled by sworn officials, whether said commodity were raw materials (in this case flax), prepared materials (spun flax, e.g., thread), or finished product (linen cloth), was an idea I've very recently been trying to get across to someone in a different historical vein.

Somewhere along the line there must have been a market for smaller merchants/purchasers. There's at least one illustration of what is assumed to be a merchant measuring and cutting a length of cloth--not necessarily linen, more likely wool---for a customer, in his shop.
I wouldn't think it would be cut into smaller lengths, either, unless necessary, but I can see the necessity of sending shorter lengths to smaller merchants.
And now that you've got me thinking about it, I realize I've rather imagined (and I do admit this is imagination, not sure from what I've put this together but I'm reasonably sure it's not Hollywood films!) that the wealthy could and would not only purchase "pieces" of sixty ells or one-hundred ells, but that they would be dealing either directly with the manufacturer (through their own agent, of course) or with no more than one middle man/clearing house---which latter term I'm using as a convenience. I don't *imagine* the wealthy sending their majordomos to the marketplace to haggle at a cloth vendor's stall, but perhaps they did.

H'mmm.....*gears whirring, thinking to self, talking to self*....obviously I need to get some concerted research going....

Again, many thanks!