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Revision as of 04:50, 16 January 2009
The kirtle is sort of a general purpose under-dress. In European fashions it is worn over the bodies and pettcoat, and under the gown or over dress. Lower class women wore kirtles as an outer dress over their chemise. Kirtles were part of fashionable attire into the middle sixteenth century, and remained part of country or middle-class clothing into the seventeenth century.
Kirtles could be loose garments without a waist seam, or could be made as a combined bodice and petticoat, depending on their use and the current fashion. Kirtles typically laced up the back or side-back, especially when worn under front-lacing gowns as in sixteenth century Germany and the Low Countries.
