Category: 1650-1659
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falling band
A flat and broad white collar often with lace on the edges, worn by men and women in the 17th century.
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1650-1659
Women’s bodices elongated in the 1650s coming to a point in the front, but in general evolved only slowly from the fashions of the previous decade; whereas men’s doublets shrunk radically and their breeches expanded, becoming heavily ornamented with ribbon loops. With England under Cromwell’s control, France takes the lead in fashion.
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