Ruff (clothing)
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A ruff is an item of clothing popular in Western, Central and Northern Europe, as well as Spanish America, from the mid-16th century to the mid-17th century. A round and flat variation is often called
A ruff from the early 17th century: detail from The Regentesses of St Elizabeth Hospital, Haarlem, by Verspronck
Ruff of c. 1575. Detail from the Darnley Portrait of Elizabeth I
A priest of the Church of Denmark wearing a ruff (2015)
Joan Alleyn wearing a green ruff trimmed with lace, England, 1596.
Collar (clothing)
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In clothing, a collar is the part of a shirt, dress, coat or blouse that fastens around or frames the neck. Among clothing construction professionals, a collar is differentiated from other necklines s
Ruff (clothing)
…to hold them at the fashionable angle. By the start of the seventeenth century, ruffs were falling out of fashion in Western Europe, in favour of wing collars and falling bands. The fashion lingered longer in the Dutch Republic, where ruffs can be seen in portraits well into the seventeenth century, as well…
William Shakespeare in a sheer linen collar of the early 17th century, a direct ancestor of the modern shirt collar.
Japanese market pointerbrand wool band collar jacket
Actor John Barrymore
Portrait of Hannah Fry