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Costumes

The garment possesses to the Middle Ages a social significance :
according to the rank and the functions occupied, one won't dress of the same way.

So most men adopted in the XVe century the port of a garment of over very short, like the donor of the decor of the Saint-Sebastian chapel ;
but some, by decency, continue to wear the dresses and long coats: the priests, the notables, the doctes.

Among these, physicians and jurists share the privilege to wear the same costume red fur lined half note.
On the other hand, the aumônière that the doctor represented here door to the belt doesn't constitute a specific accessory :
numerous are the men to hang to their belt a purse or a satchel.
We propose you a presentation of our costumes to. All are not presented again again here. If you wish one of them, communicate us the references that you interressent by means of a promenade or the form. Our costumes only exist in only one copy except contrary specification in the description.

On the page of the sales, you will find a presentation of costumes to the sale. These costumes are created therefore in a copy (except contrary specifications) the first claimant will be the first served. However on order we can achieve the costume of your rèves....
If you summers interréssés to buy one of them, you must phone us and yourselves numir of your banking card.

Military costume under Charles IX
(According to an article appeared in 1854)
We saw to begin, under Henri II, the fashion of the weapons engraved and golden. Philippe Strozzi, general colonel of the French strips, applied to return them townships in his/her/its troops. He/it made come from Milan to Paris a very sensible trader who was called Negrotti. This Negrotti opened department stores supplied in all time of that that manufactured itself of better in his/her/its country makes corselets of it and of morions. By there, he/it arrived that the merchandise not having anymore to pass, as before, by the hands of a crowd of mediators that wanted all there to benefit, the prices cut down by far.
However they were again above the faculties of most soldiers. A morion was worth until 14 ecus. M. Strozzi got pending by our gunsmiths and to prick them of honor so that they seized an industry of which their only shyness assured the monopoly to the strangers. He/it started with training a gilder who surpassed the Milanese in the application of gold ground on the engraving; so that while buying the white pieces to Negrotti, and while gilding them in Paris, a morion came back only to 8 or 9 ecus. Finally he/it left French shops of the pieces as well arched, hollowed and engraved that everything that one brought from Italy.
Piquier, sign, drum, according to the compilation of Perrissin,
It put an end to the trade of the Negrotti Lord; but he/it had already gotten used rich to more of 50 000 ecus.

It is not only of defensive weapons that Negrotti made trade; he/it also held the arquebus and fourniments, other part where our workers cannot sustain the competition for quite a while with the Italian. The fourniment was a pear to provided powder, as it was later the pears to powder of the hunters, of a case in metal or capsule intended to measure the load. The soldier carried it suspended to a chain or to a harness; it resulted at a time from him place of giberne and cartridges. The city of Blangy, close to had, was in possession of the industry of the fourniments; but one blamed to the capsules of this factory for not being all of an equal measure, and to the carvings of which one decorated there the pears to have neither taste nor relief.
As for the French arquebus, they got used in Metz and in Abbeville, with as little success that the fourniments in Blangy. The cannons, unequally emptied, burst all the time; the crosiers, badly arched, returned the difficult épaulement and the impossible shooting exactness. The arquebus of Milanese factory were exempt of these shortcomings. Strozzi only blamed them for a too short range, because he wanted that the arquebusier killed a man to four hundred steps.

While going to Malta in 1562, he/it passed intentionally by Milan to get along with a named Gaspard that was the most clever worker of the world to forge the cannons of fire arms, and to make execute under his/her eyes the new caliber of which he/it had the idea. "And sudden, tell Brantôme, that accompanied Strozzi, the fellow main Gaspard started making big quantity of these arquebus so that, so much him in fesait, as much he sold some to the other French who came after us, and that, to the envi of us other, took some, because we had gone the first. And since continued to forge the cannons of this big caliber, but with it if drilled well, filed so well and emptied especially so well, that there was not anything to say; and were very sure, because it was not necessary to speak about bursting them. And with it, we made the beautiful fourniments and the big load make to the équipollent. Here is of where, first, had the use of these big cannons of caliber, that, when one pulled them, you had said that it was mousquetade. "
The muskets owe to M. again of Strozzi of have been brought to a reasonable caliber that, without overloading the soldier, gave him the means to touch nearly a goal of the double farther than with the arquebus. We already found this weapon in use in the strips of François Ier; but she/it had been abandoned since because of his/her/its heaviness. The duke of Albe put it back in honor while giving it to elite companies for whose soldiers were paid enough well to have each a valet that carried their musket in the walks.

Charles IX having seen this troop at the time of the famous interview of Bayonne, in 1565, the desire had just had him a similar of it. He/it ordered some muskets in the factory of Metz, and loaded Strozzi to arm an escade of his/her/its care of it. This one first of all declared that he/it would not suffer that our infantrymen had some valets, as well as the Spaniards; and as, of another side, he/it recognized that it was to abuse the strength of the men that to make walk them with these muskets of Metz, he/it addressed the gunsmiths of Milan again to decrease the length of the weapon and to reduce the thickness of the cannon without hurting to his/her/its range.
With it, he/it allowed the use of forks to adjust; and there were some musketeers not only in the king's care, but again in most French strips. It is of the use of the muskets that came the idea of the sling loads. Because of the big quantity of powder that it was necessary to burn for every stroke,
Arquebusiers and hallebardier of the care of the sign,
according to the compilation of Perrissin
one imagined to attach to the soldier's harness several capsules all full worthy of the musket, regardless of what he/it had in his/its hanged fourniment at the end of the same harness.
Henri Estienne learns us that the term morion, that was Italian, generally substituted itself, under Charles IX, to the one of cabasset. In the same time, the morion to lowered visor, that one called salad once, was not known anymore than under the name of bourguignotte. Salad was reserved to designate the armet provided with bavière and view, that constituted the helmet of the state police exclusively. The morion or the bourguignotte acted as hairdressing to the light cavalry and to the infantrymen. Among these, there was only the hallebardiers that kept the hat.

The corselets, abandoned quite by people of shooting, became the uniform clean to the piquiers and the sign of recognition of the officers of all rank. The Huguenot, not having any Switzerland in their armies, used German infantrymen in place, or lansquenets, dressed more or less as those of Marignan were, except that their high of chausses, very ample and coupes to the German, nearly descended to the low of the legs, as pants of the Mamelukses. At the head of their strips a rank of soldiers worked armed of these awful two-handed swords, that make the astonishment of those that sees some today in the restrooms of curiosities.
The clothing of the cavalry doesn't undergo an important reform that the total deletion of the harness of legs that was replaced by long boots, even in the state police; so that all bodies were shoed from then on uniformly. The corselet of the chevau-light was covered, since the time of François II, by a floating blouse a few longer than the bust. People of weapons had some of similar with lost sleeves that fell behind the arm: it is what one called the dresses of the cavalry. The arquebusiers on horseback, that began then to be called carabins, didn't have this clothing that would have embarrassed them for the man.uvre of their weapon. Finally the reîtres, while keeping the gun to which they owed their reputation, adopted the defensive weapons that first missed to them, that is the bourguignotte and the corselet.
The sumptuary edict of 1573 tried to put a brake to the luxury of the harnessings that made the despair of the captains. One reads of it a thus conceived article: People of war won't carry on the harness and caparisons of the horses, sheet nor canvas of gold or drawn money, nor cloth (was not for once, in considerable act, as in a battle or day assigned); but will really carry itself embroideries or taillures of gold or money, or of silk in border of four fingers, and enrichment of cross. "