Tag Archives: Mary I of England

Happy Tudor Halloween!: the Flat Hood

Posted on Friday, 31, October, 2014 11:37 am by ♔ la dauphiine ♔

Bloody Mary’s Hood of Preference So let us wring our hands and shine the flashlight under our chins while your Blog Hostess spins the final chapter of the Tudor England headresses. The Flat Hood is last in the “hood evolution,” … Continue reading →

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the Flat hood: Tudor headgear III

Posted on Friday, 5, October, 2012 4:20 pm by ♔ la dauphiine ♔

It’s name leaving nothing to the imagination, this hood had flat top yet angular sides. It is supposedly the love-child of the English Hood and French Hood. Observe the “earlier style” Cecila Heron, Saint Thomas More‘s daughter, and Anne Cressacre … Continue reading →

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the English Hood: Tudor-Era Headgear part II

Posted on Friday, 5, October, 2012 7:11 am by ♔ la dauphiine ♔

[segway! from the trés obvious lead-in from the previous post on the French hood] its cross-Channel-cousin was (oh, irony of ironies) the English hood. That angular contraption of birdhousy geometric sensibilities that seems to imply self-castigation or taking up vows … Continue reading →