Gable hood

Gable hood

A gable hood, English hood or gable headdress is an English woman's headdress of c. 1500-1550, so-called because its pointed shape resembles the gable of a house.

Originally a simple pointed hood with decorated side panels called "lappets" and a veil at the back, over time the gable hood became a complex construct with a box-shaped back and two tube-shaped hanging veils at 90-degree angles; the hanging veils and lapets could be pinned up in a variety of ways to make complex headdresses.


ee also

*1500-1550 in fashion
*Catherine of Aragon
*Mary Boleyn

References

*Ashelford, Jane: "The Art of Dress: Clothing and Society 1500-1914", Abrams, 1996. ISBN 0-8109-6317-5

*Ashelford, Jane: "A Visual History of Costume: The Sixteenth Century", Drama Books, 1983. ISBN 0-89676-076-6

External links

* [http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/sca/tudor/gable.html Tudor Gable Headdress: A Portfolio of Images]
* [http://www.elizabethancostume.net/headwear/coif.html Tudor and Elizabethan Coifs]


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