Women's Fashion in the Renaissance

Women typically wore gowns with fitted bodices and full skirts. Dresses cut to expose most of the neckline were accepted and, in fact fashionable during this era. Women in the upper classes wore heavier and more restricting clothing while women of the lower classes wore less restrictive clothing.

 Cotton was the most favored fabric of women's clothing, but women of the upper classes could afford to have their clothes made from other fabrics like silk and velvet. Clothing of women in the lower lasses were normally made from linen or wool.

Women's heads were covered most of the time by some type of headdress, sometimes embellished by jewels.