Dresses in the past

Posted on Oct 12, 2009 07:12:00 AM

I am a student of fashion designing and had to research about the clothes, arms and insignia that the aristocrats of the past wore. I wanted to research about a House that people have not researched about before. Some amount of reading and I decided that I would research on the apparel and insignia of the Militare Ordine del Collare of the House of Aragon. I got to know all that I wanted to and some more from http://www.mocsta.eu. I was surprised and intrigued to know that all the members of the Order had to wear different arms and insignia as per their rank in the Order. For example, there is no uniform prescribed for Dames of the Military Order of the Collar. Dames of the Order had to wear on all formal occasions a suitable dress preferably of black or some other dark colour with black shoes, white gloves and a black mantilla or some other head covering while a Professed Knight of the Order had to wear under the robe in summer, knee breeches with white stockings and in winter, black trousers. Black shoes had to be worn in all seasons. This is only the tip of the iceberg. I also got pictures of some of the Kings of the House in all their regalia and used them to make my research more interesting. My research was in the top five, thanks to this wonderful site.