Spanish Farthingale Silhouette
スパニッシュ・ファージンゲール / late 15th–early 17th century / Style / Fashion History
A Spanish court-dress silhouette formed by hoops increasing toward the floor, fixing the skirt into a rigid cone or triangle from waist to hem. It suppresses folds and joins an upright torso, narrow waist, and broad base into one geometry.
A cone or triangle opening in straight lines from waist to floor / Horizontal hoops increasing downward while suppressing surface folds / High collar or ruff, rigid torso, and long verticals / Black or deep color, gold thread, and jewels organized symmetrically
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Reconstructing sixteenth-century Spanish or Tudor court dress from its conical support · Joining an upright upper body and geometric skirt into an authoritative portrait, stage, or exhibit silhouette
- Type
- Align tall narrow serif type to the center; do not trace the skirt cone with lettering.
- Composition
- Fix shoulder, torso, and waist on one vertical axis, then set equal straight angles from waist to hem to derive hoop diameters.
- Material
- Increase lightweight hoop sizes in steps, secure them to cloth, and add a smooth underlayer so the outer fabric does not record each ring.
- Caution
- Do not confuse it with Pannier width or later Crinoline. Preserve the Spanish court, state, and rank context instead of flattening it into medieval fantasy, and redesign breathing, walking, flame, and fall safety.
- Further study
- late-fifteenth-century Spanish verdugado / sixteenth-century Spanish and Tudor court dress / farthingale, wheel farthingale and later guardainfante
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