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Head-wear

Men's hats and caps, p. 188

Men's hoods, p. 192

Women's linen head-dresses, p. 197

Women's cloth head-dresses and hoods, p. 200

Women's fashionable head-dresses, p. 205

Platę 18. Building the Tower of Babel, 1423, French

The supervisory group in the left foreground are wearing the dress typically used to denote foreign or ancient peoples. Most of the workmen wear loose frocks or early cotes pouched over belts. The man mixing mortar, left, wears an open buttoned coat: the man working the windlass, right, has dagged sleeves revealing the sleeves of his doublet. Only one, the stonemason, centre front left, has removed his outer garment, and is working in his doublet. The doublet is madę with separate wristbands and collar, front buttoned, and meets his hose at thigh level. The points securing his separate hose are clearly visible. The man immediately to the left of the tower has his hose rolled down below his knees, and the unfortunate individual falling from the scaffolding reveals short hose with front points and well-fitted braies. Ali wear hose, and short boots mostly flaring out at the top. Only three men appear to wear hoods, though there is an assortment of wrapped 'turban' forms of hood or chaperons. The man in the doublet wears a large bag-hat and there are various shapes of felt hat; only one is bare-headed.

Bedford Hours, British Library MS Add. 18850, f. 7v

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