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

[hsifeng.livejournal.com]

I am interested in the way the Gollar (small purple jacket) and the lower sleeves are constructed. I am unclear which image came first. The trio of images comes from a title with "1560-1570" in it. The single image sheet has a description of the book as coming from the 4th quarter of the 16th C. This would make it *appear* that the smaller trio image came first, and was repeated (with Gods only know how much interpretation and modification) in the larger image.

It is interesting to also note that the smaller trio image has a ruff and cuffs that seem later period than the cuffs of the '4th quarter' image.

Marion & Katherine, if you happen to see anything in these source books that indicates which came first it would be great (also, any suggestions for other sources on Kölnish wear...*grin*).