Gable hood

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Mary Wotton, Lady Guildenford, wearing a gable hood with pinned up lappets and a hanging veil. Hans Holbein the Younger, 1527.

A gable hood, English hood or gable headdress is an English woman's headdress of c. 1500–1550, so-called because its pointed shape resembles the gable of a house. The contemporary French hood was rounded in outline.

Originally a simple pointed hood with decorated side panels called lappets and a veil at the back, over time the gable hood became a complex construction stiffened with buckram, with a box-shaped back and two tube-shaped hanging veils at 90-degree angles; the hanging veils and lappets could be pinned up in a variety of ways to make complex headdresses.


  • Early gable hood: Elizabeth of York c. 1500
    Early gable hood: Elizabeth of York c. 1500
  • Front and back views of a box-backed gable hood of c. 1528–30. Detail of a drawing by Holbein
    Front and back views of a box-backed gable hood of c. 1528–30. Detail of a drawing by Holbein
  • Gable hood with lappets and one side of veil pinned up (engraving after Holbein c. 1535)
    Gable hood with lappets and one side of veil pinned up (engraving after Holbein c. 1535)
  • Gable hood of c. 1543
    Gable hood of c. 1543

See also

References

  • Ashelford, Jane: The Art of Dress: Clothing and Society 1500–1914, Abrams, 1996. ISBN 0-8109-6317-5
  • Ashelford, Jane: A Visual History of Costume: The Sixteenth Century, Drama Books, 1983. ISBN 0-89676-076-6

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