Links About The Houpeland

• 15th Century Female Flemish Dress: A Portfolio of Images

  Images of women from paintings the 15th century by artists working primarily in the northwestern part of Europe. It is intended to show examples of the predominant trends in upper class clothing from the era. The focus is on representations of real clothing, thus some of the more highly stylized "allegorical" clothing is not included.

  Hope Greenberg
• A Text by R. Turner Wilcox

  Discourse on the change in clothing styles across Europe throughout the medieval period.

  Tempus Peregrinator
• Buried with the Friars

  Details an archeological dig in Hull, England, which includes very intact burial garb, mostly very early houpelands

  David Evans
• Costume in County Clare

  Scroll down to see mention and image of a 15th century stone effigy in Kilfenora, Ireland

  Mairéad Dunleavy
• Fashion 224 - History Of Costume Gothic

  Scroll down to Slide No 40, and onwards
  (page courtesy of State University College at Oneonta, New York)

  Dr. Katherine G. Angell
• Gunnas to Houppelands - A Thousand Years of English Dresses

  Traces fashions for women's clothing in England from the fifth through fifteenth centuries

  Affreca McNaven
• Houppelande-art

  Stefan's Florilegium's entry on houpelands

  Stefan li Rous
• Image: Hero and Heroine

  A detail from Jacques Iverny's "Hero and Heroine" c. 1420

  Emil Kren and Daniel Marx
• Image: houpelandes

  Image of Houpelands being worn.

  Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
• Image: Houppelande Headdress

  An image of a current Hennin

  Melanie Schuessler
• The Houpelande - A Text by Herbert Norris

  A description of how houpeland are worn (use the normal caution with Norris' work)

  Tempus Peregrinator
• THE HOUPPELANDE C.1355-1450

  A description of how hopelandes developed and are cut

  L. Allison and Lyn M. Parkinson
• The Milanese Tailor's Handbook

  Some doctor's robes that look very much like houppelandes without belts. Look at folios 85 v, 86 r, 86 v and 87 r (bottom of page)

  Penny Ladnier

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