Burgundian Noblemen's Underclothes c1445-1475

Informal wear/Middle Layer
Hose/Hosen
Hose is the term I use for leggings whose legs are sewn together. I use the term hosen to
indicate leggings whose legs are separate, and joined only by attaching the codpiece.
Sometimes it’s hard to tell which version is being worn in the illustrations, if I cannot tell
I default to using the term hose to describe the leggings..
Figure 6.1
1465 Loyset Liédet’s Renaud de
Montauban , “the Marriage of
Renaut de Montauban and
Clarisse”
Figure 6.2
1465 Loyset Liédet’s Renaud de
Montauban
Figure 6.3
1470-71 Hans Memling, Scenes
from the Passion of Christ
(detail)
Figure 6.4
Ca. 1465-70 Burges. Master of
the Harley Froissart, Jean
Foissart’s Chroniques.
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