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Renaissance Costumes - Medieval Clothing - Madrigal Costume
Specializing in renaissance costumes, medieval clothing, madrigal costumes, and related accessories, Elizabethan Outfitters was founded in 2006 to serve re-enactors, production companies, historic sites, and individuals with a source for quality costumes and other period items.
The Renaissance Costumes for Men section offering a diverse selection of period shirts, doublets, breeches, and kilts. For both men and women, we offer an assortment of hats, cloaks, & accessories as the finishing touches to your costume.
The Renaissance Costumes for Women section includes an assortment of renaissance bodices, chemises, corsets, skirts, undergarments, gowns and even renaissance wedding gowns.
Renaissance Costumes for Children features a collection of costumes to outfit your little lords and ladies.
To compliment our high quality renaissance costumes, we offer an assortment of costume Accessories, ranging from belts, pouches, and tankards to beautiful hand-crafted venetian masks, wax seals, and personal costume props.
To compliment our renaissance costumes, we offer an Arms & Armor section featuring a line of battle-ready swords, daggers, armor, and helmets. We also offer belts and frogs! If the Arms & Armor section is too expensive for your purse, quality stainless steel weapons are in our Economy Arms & Armor section.
If the Arms & Armor section is too expensive for your purse, quality stainless steel weapons are in our Economy Arms & Armor section.
Accessorize your renaissance costumes with our diverse line of Jewelry, including brooches, necklaces, chains of office, miniature portraits, and circlets.
In our Renaissance Music department, we feature both recorded music on CD and books of sheet music for you to learn to play the most popular songs of the period - and each book comes with a CD to play along and learn with!
Creating renaissance costumes for yourself? We have the perfect historical Patterns and Notions. Our patterns range in difficulty from easy to advanced, a line of buttons, and a collection of embroidered heraldic emblems to decorate your costumes.
Now that you're outfitted, browse our other selections: We offer a line of beautiful Puppets and an assortment of period themed Toys & Games.
Renaissance costume was distinctive. The culture was fashion conscious and clothing was stylized to make a statement of status, of power, or of wealth.
The popular image of renaissance costume is what was worn by the upper classes. Style was paramount, and both men and women wore clothing which we might consider "costumes," similar to the formal styles we don on special occasions, such as weddings, today. If, in the future, a historian saw a photo of your wedding, might he or she not think we always wore such finery?
To the modern eye, renaissance costume appears constrictive and uncomfortable because we tend to associate the clothing of the nobility with the entirety of the period. This is natural, as most of the examples we have are from paintings and written descriptions. Quite simply, the activities of the poor were rarely recorded.
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