Does anyone know the name of any items of clothing that might have been worn during 1500-1616?

Question

I'm trying to find out what some of the guests at "the Capulet party" in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet might have worn.

Answer 1

Try this site, I think you can get your answers here
www.oldandsold.com/articles09/clothes-24.shtml

Good luck
CJ

Answer 2

Since it was a costume party (remember, Romeo went as a pilgrim), you might just let your imagination take over.

Historical personages were likely to be popular; so were knights and probably milkmaids and shepherds or shepherdesses.

Of course, the partygoers wouldn't necessarily dress exactly the way commoners dressed--usually they'd dress in more costly materials and maybe carry an accessory of some sort to indicate what they were supposed to be, such as a pail or a crook.

Some may have masqueraded as monks or nuns, too, but the big thing to remember is that most times the people wore masks of some sort, either ones that tied around the head or could be held before the face on a stick.

Answer 3

Well, though Romeo and Juliet was written just prior to that time period, the actual setting of the story is in the 14th century, a little bit after the Black Plague was beginning to settle down.

Also, the party was a masquerade.

Answer 4

A codpiece.

Answer 5

Really, really old clothes

Answer 6

outer ware