Why Big Collars Were Huge In The Elizabethan Era
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- Опубликовано: 7 июн 2024
- The Elizabethan ruff is easily identified - a large, stiff, upright, usually lace collar that, in all honesty, looks uncomfortable and awkward. The Elizabethan collar that dominated fashion during the late 16th and 17th centuries, however, was an indicator of wealth, prestige, and social status.
Ruffs became increasingly large and elaborate as methods to create them advanced. Hours were spent looping, ironing, and starching lace and linen into place. Embroidery, jewels, and precious metals were added to heighten the glamour of the ruff. By the late 16th century, what was once a simple collar had transitioned to become the ultimate display of excess.
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My cat got a ruff from the veterinarian
Lol the cone of shame 😂
The real name is "Elizabethan Collar".
I was a teenager in the 80s. That whole decade was a weird fashion trend. 😂
You should have tried the seventies, it was the decade that style forgot.
In one episode of Blackadder, Lord Percy comes in with a very wide ruff, Blackadder said it made him look like a "Bird that swallowed a plate". Later in the episode Percy sports a small ruff saying that tiny was in fashion. To which Blackadder remarks "In that case, you have the most fashionable brain in London."
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When I was in school my history teacher told me that these ruffs were there a way of saying this is what my head would look like if it were cut off
That's dark, man😵
I love it! In this time, it makes sense
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How did the medieval lady know it was me who prank called her?
She had collar ID. 😢😭
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Here come the dad jokes lol
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This is so dumb but it made me laugh so thanks
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I can't wait for rappers to bring these bad boys back.
Ruff Ryders fo life
“I like big ruffs and I cannot lie, you other brothers can’t deny…”
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Love his sense of humor in his commentaries 😅
Thank the heavens for this narrators voice 🥹
Get over it grandma.
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I specifically only listen to the weird history segments that this guy narrates. Both his voice and speech are soothing. I find the others just irritating. Don't know why.
@vincentavangogh3636 he just has that thing and he is effortlessly funny 😁
I’ll never again complain about wearing a coat and tie.
Long acrylic talons are the modern day equivalent.
Man, I can't even stand to wear turtlenecks 😬
Same. Nothing on my neck, please!😬
You wouldn’t have had much choice back then. Unless you were in the royal position to be a trend-setter.
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Jams and Parachute pants, i was such a dumb kid. Lol
I had the good sense to dodge a hideous fashion trend. I graduated college at the peak of the disco era, and continued into adulthood without ever owning or wearing a leisure suit.
Always enjoy the weird history videos especially with this original narrator
Elizabeth 1st was her own fashion Police. A forerunner to Mr Blackwell.
Yes, but Mr. Blackwell was never known to have someone imprisoned for a fashion faux pas.
"When you sup with the devil, bring a long spoon." I understand the reference now.
This trend also affected nuns. Check 'daughters of charity cornette.' Those nuns with the winged headdress were founded in 1633. Originally, they dressed like poor women of their time, with a simple veil, as I saw in a book of their history which contains portraits of their superior mothers. Then, at some point, they started to starch their veils, and you can see portrait after portrait how the points go up and up until ending in the massive cornette - which undoubtedly inspired The Flying Nun TV show.
I have a talking dog. I asked him what people wore during the Elizabethan era and he said ruff.
Nothing says like I’m ready to party then a beaver hat 😂 that made me laugh so hard
Ah, Blackadder . . . my patron saint.
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the popped collar could be seen as a reinvention of the ruff
Was that a picture of Rowan Atkinson?
Indeed, it's at 4:50 for those who wonder. In his role as Blackadder. ☺️
Yep. Looks quite good in a beard, doesn’t he? The moustache he had in Blackadder IV was also good.
I hate to see what they get like during a 90 degree summer day. Yikes
Thanks for this! 👑
how about the history of tattooing?
Last time I was this early I was in the NICU for a month.
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I just came here for the narrator
He has a great voice and style you can’t get enough of.
Well, that was really interesting!! Thank you!
My favorite narrator of all of RUclips is back! And besides my favorite narrator. Sir do you think those Elizabethan collars acted as baby bibs back in the day!? You know just a theory.
"PROTECT YA NECK"
Love it, thank you!
They are properly called a “Ruff”
This was really interesting! 😳
i think they actually are coming back! sort of. ive seen a few in one or two runway shows from the last 6 months or so, dont recall which ones but ppl even made videos abt how the style may be coming back, great video as always!
Love this!
I honestly don't really see any difference with how people dress today.
I guess I'm just collar blind. 🤷♂️🙈
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Right here officer! This one!
You asked what was my version of the most ridiculous/silly trend - excessively beg shoulder pads of the 1980s. Really ladies!?!?!
Revived from the '40s....
@@lindickison3055 By a male designer...
Seriously! Whyyyy was that ever a thing for women? They were horrendous. Everyone had tiny heads.😆
Now we a weird history video to on shoulder pads to follow this video.
Shoulder pads are definitely one of the strangest fads of the past.
@@mynameishuman4582 I know right.
Having to use the water closet wearing a collar was Ruff.
Your ruff implied you had servants who helped you aim.🎯
@@myredpencil hopefully they helped wipe too
Actually, ruffs were out by the time a water closet came about. They were using chamber pots which would have been worse using.
Their servants did everything for them, including wiping or washing the mess. The ones sporting the collars didn't even have to look down.
Gigantic shoulder pads WERE regrettable, but small shoulder pads were actually flattering and I wouldn't mind those again. And, luckily, I never did the big permed hair, but that was definitely regrettable! I used to make those removable white lace collars that were so popular in the 1990s. I never knew they were decendant of the large ruff collars.
A+ video!
LOVE IT! What an amazing fashion history video!
0:01 Effie Trinket (played by Elizabeth Banks) wears all types of stylized collars in The Hunger Games series.
Only 9.. You'll never get a 🏆 with those low numbers 😂 fu**in* q**er.
Loved the corvette moment 😂
Suddenly, I'm getting the urge to brew some coffee and put my cup on Grannie's crocheted doily.
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So it always looks like your head is served on a plate.
I found this interesting. How about wired history on those narrow ridiculously long pointed shoes from Medieval era.
I want a video about the South American cowboy style boots with the super long tips on the front.
When those started showing up in our city the rumor was that they had to wear them to stomp the cockroaches in the corners of their houses. Pretty sure that wasn't true.
Yes interesting thanks for sharing.
Man, that's something. Informative and very appealing to fashion design.
Really appreciate the shot of Edmund Blackadder.
Does anyone else remember wearing pleather, witch-looking boots, 1987ish?
Yep, I love the Wu ref. 😊 Top man. X
Big collars were popular in the Elizabethan Era because they symbolized wealth, status, and fashion trends of the time, often showcasing intricate lace and embroidery as a display of luxury and social standing.
Yeah, the video covered all of that.
Thanks, you saved me 10mins
Let the ruff riders roll!
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Interesting.
Do a weird history about the Victorians eating Egyptian mummies and using them for paint!!
Pretty sure they did touch on that in a vid.
Hot Pants (metaphorically because of the weather) with a matching top. At least I had the legs for them back then. Got away from that fashion pretty quick as they were uncomfortable when made from polyester.
Well, you know, MY collar's bigger than yours💪
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Please do powdered wigs, s'il vous plait. ❤
2:17 this whole outfit makes me feel like I'm suffocating just looking at it 😅
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Corvettes were not invented until recently … they pre-date most of the ruffs, except for the seat belt ruff started by the BeeGees. Very popular in the ‘80s.
I remember that Calvin Klein clothing was the big deal during the 1970s. I knew a guy that wore Klein because he said it went with his Trans Am. -
I remember also during the 1970s that shirts and bell bottom pants usually had embroidered flowers. Then the elevator shoes was worn with bell bottoms
Yes: during the 1970s jeans mostly, but also denim shirts had some embroidery that the wearer sewed in. I embroidered all my bell bottoms with flowers, butterflies etc.
@@nellie9352 . - Oh thanks for reminding me about those denim shirts. I have a school photo of me wearing one with embroidered flowers on the shoulders. I think that might have been around 1976.
I remember they used to sell those kits to punch in silver buttons in flowers and what have you. Another thing came to mind, remember when it seemed everyone had those iron-on desings, I remember they had a Peter Framton iron-on.
Nobleman: Check out my new preposterously large ruff collar!
Random person: You look like a bird who swallowed a plate!
Shoulder pads in the 80’s! I could take someones eye out at 10 yards!😂🤣😅! Px
Aw yeah. Wearing them like couch cushions.
Starch was all the rage in the 16th and 17th centuries!
Please do LEISURE SUITS from the 70's!
Thanks, i now have a flashback of encountering the Leisure Suit Larry video game. 🤢 we were warned. 🧐
Ever since I could remember I've been popping my collar -36 Mafia
Do blue jeans please.
That title made go listen to Three Six Mafia poppin my collar
THEY can help Prince Frederick move 😂
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Hammer pants!
Let us hope that ruffs don’t ever make a comeback. They look to be extremely uncomfortable
That ruff makes you look like a bird swallowing a plate
How scratchy they must’ve been! Can’t imagine wearing one, without screaming with pain!
Some ministers in northern Europe wear rufs with their robes.
I like how they had all these things to show class and status but everyone had to wear powdered wigs to cover their syphilis and cover themselves in perfume to attempt to cover their ungodly stench from bathing very very little if at all.
I'm anxiously awaiting for the return of the Henry VIII codpiece.
I believe those godawful popped collars are reminiscent of ruffs.
Unlikely to come back despite appearing prominently on the necks of the lunar royalty in the classic film The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. So it does not look promising for a comeback, however sometime in one of the infinite universes in which we may or may not live, depending on whether there is anyone around to observe them, ruffs will be de rigueur along with ripped jeans that dangle about the knees, capes, beanie hats, and mullets. Oh yes, pointy shoes. Also pointy shoes.
I fell into the trap of super thin arched eyebrows…🤦🏻♀️ it’s been over a decade and my eyebrows will not grow out to their full potential hahahah 😂
Buppa before we get started
That collar would hide even the worst turkey neck! The older I get, the more I wish some fashion trends would return!!
Wonder if they asked for extra starch at the dry-cleaners...
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Actually fifth but who’s counting lol
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Right lol 😂
How did they wipe their butts with things? Best not to ask.
They had servants for that unfortunately for the servants
I feel like it was just practicle of the Queen to ban ruffs that were too wide or thick in public. The point may have been to be the "ruff-i-est" of them all at court, as the queen, but it also introduced some reason as people increasingly became more symbolic statue inside their clothing than functional moving human. If the queen found that rediculous and distracting from getting the mental work of governing done, she was likely taking the pulse of many other exasperated people.
The mullet! Lol! Carrot legs jeans. No bueno!
Beatle boots and bell bottoms. Yeah, baby!
I wonder if this is arround the same time when number of petticoats is a sure sign of status for women. I find it funny how both trends just seem to communicate weath with how much excess expensive fabric you could somehow rig of to your body and haul about. You know what would be better than one skirt and collar? All the skirts and collars -- At Once! We'll just layer them and call it an outfit!