Żupan
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Żupan is a long-lined garment of West or Central Asian origin which was widely worn by male nobles in the multi-ethnic Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and by the Ukrainian Cossacks in the Cossack Hetma
Polish magnate Jan Zamoyski (1542-1605) dressed in a crimson delia over a blue silk żupan, and tied with a pas kontuszowy. The right hand holds a buława.
A Ukrainian cossack clerk wearing a blue żupan under a kontusz (1786)
Żupan, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, 18th century.
Ukrainian lower middle class citizen in a blue żupan.
Justacorps
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A justacorps or justaucorps is a knee-length coat worn by men in the latter half of the 17th century and throughout the 18th century. It is of French origin, where it had developed from a cape-like ga
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…dog-ear sleeve-end to pin it to a sleeve once upturned and thus a cuff was created. This style of cuff was known in the Louis XIV period in France as the Polish cuff and might have led to the development of colorful military cuffs used in West European armies from 18th century onwards. After the partition of Ukraine…
Luis Francisco de la Cerda (later Duke of Medinaceli) in a red justacorps with horizontal pockets and lavish decoration, c. 1684.
Display of various styles of achkan and angarkha worn by men, Delhi textile museum.
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