Bellows or bagpipe sleeve: A gathered
sleeve having a cuff and a long vertical slit through which the hand could
pass.
Caul (also
crepine, crestine, crespinette, tressure, tressour):
A woman’s medieval headdress in which the hair was concealed in two
silken, half-spherical cases on either side of the head covered with heavy
net of reticulated gold or silver cord interspersed with pearls and beads.
Chaperon:
A caped hood with long tai, or liripipe, worn with the face opening
around the head and the liripipe wound about the head and then
draped under the chin.
Corset:
A fitted garment
worn over the chemise with skirt attached and usually laced up the front.
Crackow or
poulaine:
A long-tipped hose and shoe introduced during the reign of Richard II and
named after the city of Crackow in Poland; later the length of the toe
became so long that it had to be tied to the knee.
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