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ruff: a standalone construct

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costume history

The stiffly starched, pleated collar worn in Europe c.1560-1630.

In costume history, ruff refers to The stiffly starched, pleated collar worn in Europe c.1560-1630. This meaning comes from Cumming (2017) in The Dictionary of Fashion History. Here ruff is not the ruff (calidris pugnax), a wading bird whose breeding males grow an erectile neck ruff.[1]

Unit: a garment element
Recovery means: dress-history analysis of portraits/extant pieces
Measured by: diameter, number of sets (pleats)

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References

Cumming, V., Cunnington, C. W., & Cunnington, P. E. (2017). The Dictionary of Fashion History. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474269728

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