Chaperone with hanging liripipe

Published/Created:

ca. 1100-1400

Date Depicted:

1975
500 AD - 1499 AD

Abstract:

Hair is bobbed to the jaw and cut with bangs across the forehead. Beards are infrequent; they are trim and occasionally cut in two points. After 1300 the white linen coif, worn alone or under another hat or hood, is the basic head­covering. Most often the chaperone is over the coif. It is composed of a fitted hood and an attached short cape which buttons under the chin. The back of the hood generally ends in a tail-like shape called the liripipe. The peaked hat, famil­iar to lovers of Robin Hood, is alone or over the hood of the chaperone.

Topics:

Costume -- Europe -- History -- (LC)
Costume -- Sweden -- Gothic -- (YVRC)

Period/Style:

Gothic (Medieval)

Culture:

Swedish

Accession Number:

4389-022

Genre:

costume (mode of fashion) (AAT)
costume accessories: headgear (AAT)

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Clothing & Accessories

Rights:

The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.

Access Restrictions:

Yale Community Only

Related Exhibit or Resource:

Early Gothic: 12th-14th century: Hair and Hats: Men

Source Creator:

Button, Jeanne and Sbarge, Stephen

Source Title:

History of Costume, In Slides, Notes and Commentaries: Volume 2

Source Created:

New York, NY
Theatre Arts Slide Presentations
1975

Call Number:

GT513 +B87 2 (LC)

Orbis Barcode:

39002051938489

Yale Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Digital Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Original Repository:

Stockholm, Sweden: Statens Historiska Museum (Museum of National Antiquities)

OID:

10596330

PID:

digcoll:1800400