Elizabethan Style

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Elizabethan style   
In architecture and the decorative arts, a transitional style of the English Renaissance, which took its name from Queen Elizabeth's reign (1558-1603). A period between the Gothic and Renaissance styles. It reached its apogee in the late 1500s, toward the end of the long reign of Queen Elizabeth I, and is often considered the last phase of the long-lasting Tudor style.

Elizabethan Costume

Luxurious and expensive materials that were plain-coloured. Collars were starched very high with many ruffles. Men usually had small beards with a neatly trimmed point. Blonde and red hair was popular once again and many women bleached and dyed their hair and even wore wigs in those colours. The colour scheme of costume at this time were combinations of white and black, black and gold, and black and red. They used full tones of red, green and blue and bright hues of orange-tawny and flame, with pale tones like yellow-green, saffron and light blue.

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