Platę 11 Court dance, 1465, French
The king wears his crown round his hat, and a ceremoniał mantle over a long fur-lined gown with pleats at the centre front. The queen wears a tight gown trimmed with ermine, its neckline filled with a fine scarf, and an old-fashioned wide horned head-dress which seems to amalgamate her coronet with the padded roli.
The gentlemen wear joined hose and long piked shoes. The one on the extreme left wears a short mantle which reveals the top ot his hose and the form ot his tight doublet with its puffed upper sleeves. The man on the left with his back to us wears a very short gown edged with fur, over a doublet with a high collar, and no belt. His gown sleeves are slashed at the back, revealing open doublet sleeves caught together over his shirt. The fullness and pleating at the sleeve head indicate puffed doublet sleeves supporting the gown sleeves. The men's hats are tali and almost brimless.
The lady nearest the queen wears a fitted garment, with no belt, which may be a cotehardie with a train. The other ladies wear typical gowns with wide V-fronted necklines, the collars dipping over the belts at the back, and skirts with perhaps a metre ot train.
The lady to the left with her back to us shows how the wide belt was worn with the buckie at the back: her left sleeve shows a long mitten cuff worn down over her hand. Ot the five ladies, two wear tali steeple hennins with black velvet frontlets and bindings, and transparent veils; two wear shorter truncated hennins, also with long veils, and one wears an upright horned head-dress. It is likely that the different head-dresses represent different ages or social and marital status.
Roman de la Vidette, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, MS FR 24378, f.5
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