farthingale
Sign in to savethumb|280px|Probably the earliest depiction of the Spanish verdugado. Pedro García de Benabarre, Salome from the St John Retable, Catalonia, 1470–1480. thumb|right|180px|Tudor gown showing the line of the Spanish farthingale: portrait of Catherine Parr, 1545. thumb|right|French farthingales, c. 1580 right|thumb|180px|Silhouette of the 1590s: Elizabeth I, the Ditchley portrait
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- Spanish farthingale
- Farthingales in England and Scotland
- French farthingale roll
- French wheel farthingale or great farthingale
- Anne of Denmark and the fashion of farthingales
- Farthingale sleeves
- Farthingale pins
- See also
- Citations
- General and cited references
- External links
thumb|280px|Probably the earliest depiction of the Spanish verdugado. Pedro García de Benabarre, Salome from the St John Retable, Catalonia, 1470–1480. thumb|right|180px|Tudor gown showing the line of the Spanish farthingale: portrait of Catherine Parr, 1545. thumb|right|French farthingales, c. 1580 right|thumb|180px|Silhouette of the 1590s: Elizabeth I, the Ditchley portrait
A farthingale is one of several structures used under Western European women's clothing - especially in the 16th and 17th centuries - to support the skirts in the desired shape and to enlarge the lower half of the body. The fashion originated in Spain in the fifteenth century. Farthingales served important social and cultural functions for women in Renaissance Europe as they expressed, primarily when worn by court women, high social position and wealth.