HAIR STYLE OF WOMEN IN15TH AND 16TH CENTURIES ALBA CALVO ISCAR 5ºA
DESCRIPTION In a typical hairstyle of this period, front hair is curled and back hair is worn long, twisted and wound with ribbons and then coiled and pinned up.
DESCRIPTION Married and grown women covered their hair, as they did in previous periods. Early in the period, hair was parted in the center and fluffed over the temples. Later, front hair was curled and puffed high over the forehead. Wigs and false hairpieces were used to extend the hair. Here are some photos of Isabel of Portugal.
DESCRIPTION Mary Queen of Scots wears her black hat with a feather is decorated with pearls and worn over a snood that covers her hair, 1560s. Marguerite d’Angoulême. Her hair is confined in a bag-like fabric snood under a broad black hat, c. 1527
DESCRIPTION A close-fitting linen cap called a coif or biggins was worn, alone or under other hats or hoods, especially in the Netherlands and England. Many embroidered and bobbin-lace-trimmed English coifs survive from this period. The French hood was worn throughout the period in both France and England.
DESCRIPTION Another fashionable headdress was a caul, or cap, of net-work lined in silk attached to a band, which covered the pinned up hair. This style of headdress had also been seen in Germany in the first half of the century. Widows in mourning wore black hoods with sheer black veils.
DESCRIPTION Catherine de' Medici in a widow's black hood and veil, after 1559. Katharina von Bora her hair is confined in a net or snood, 1526.
ISABEL IST OF CASTILLA Isabel I had a hair color that was between strawberry-blonde and auburn.
ISABEL IST OF CASTILLA In this photo she had a long and curly hair.
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