Influences of Gothic Clothing on European Dresses

In the previous passage, I told you something about influences of gothic clothing on French clothing, especially women’s clothing in France. Today I will continue telling you the great impact of gothic clothing.

The first one is cotardie, just like what I introduced in the last picture, it was worn outside and had a dress look. It is said it appeared in Italy first. The bodice and waist were in skinny fit cutting and there was criss cross or straps at front. Special decorations were added on the elbow, they were colorful cloth called tippers for the draped look. Sometimes tippers were very long and they were popular among Italians.

Surcotouverts are transformations of surcots which were popular in the fourteenth century. Usually, people dressed them out of the cotardies. The function of them is to adorn the nice shape of the body, so many jewellery, gold, silver and fur were added. The main feature of them are big roll cuffs. As its length, the bottom hemline was put on the floor, just like trains of long dresses in nowadays.