For contemporary styles see Pantyhose, Hosiery

Florentine particolored hose, c. Pantyhose (also called tights) are sheer, close fitting coverings of the body from the Waist to the feet Hosiery is knitted coverings for the legs and feet Also referred to as legwear hosiery describes garments worn directly on the feet and Legs The term 1470

Sir Walter Raleigh in paned trunk hose and cannions, and his son in loose slops, 1602. Sir Walter Raleigh or Ralegh (c 1552 – 29 October 1618 was a famed English writer Poet, Soldier, Courtier and Explorer

Hose are any of various styles of men's clothing for the legs and lower body, worn from the Middle Ages through the seventeenth century, when the term fell out of use in favor of breeches and stockings. Clothing (also called clothes, accoutrements, accouterments, or habiliments) protects the Human body from extreme Weather Breeches (pronounced) are an item of male Clothing covering the body from the Waist down with separate coverings for each Leg, usually stopping just below A stocking, sometimes referred to as hose is a close-fitting variously elastic garment covering the Foot and lower part of the Leg. (See also trousers. Trousers are an item of Clothing worn on the lower part of the body from the waist to the ankles covering both legs separately (rather than with cloth stretching across )

Early hose were fitted to the leg, and fifteenth century hose were often particolored, having each leg a different color, or even one leg made of two colors. These early hose were footed, in the manner of modern tights, and were open from the crotch to the leg. Tights are a type of fabric leg covering usually extending from the waist to feet and fitting as tightly as possible to the body (from which the name derives When very short doublets were in fashion, codpieces were added to cover the front opening. A doublet is a man's snug-fitting buttoned Jacket that was worn in Western Europe from the Middle Ages through to the mid-17th century A codpiece (from Middle English cod, " Scrotum " is a flap or pouch that attaches to the front of the crotch of men's Trousers to provide

By the sixteenth century, hose had separated into two garments: upper hose or breeches and nether hose or stockings.

From the mid-sixteeth to early seventeenth centuries, a variety of styles of hose were in fashion. Popular styles included:

• Trunk hose or round hose, short padded hose. Very short trunk hose were worn over cannions, fitted hose that ended above the knee.
• Slops or galligaskins, loose hose reaching just below the knee.

Trunk hose and slops could be paned or pansied, with strips of fabric (panes) over a full inner layer or lining.

• Pluderhosen, a Northern European form of pansied slops with a very full inner layer pulled out between the panes and hanging below the knee. Northern Europe is a term for the northern part of Europe. The United Nations defines Northern Europe as (Finland
• Venetians, semi-fitted hose reaching just below the knee.

See also

• 1500-1550 in fashion
• 1550-1600 in fashion

References

Janet Arnold: Patterns of Fashion: the cut and construction of clothes for men and women 1560-1620, Macmillan 1985. Janet Arnold ( 1932 - November 2, 1998) was a British Clothing Historian, Costume designer, teacher conservator Revised edition 1986. (ISBN 0-89676-083-9)

External links

• Hose in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 13th-16th century hose, from illustrations and museums