You would have to undo all the lacing just to go pee, which was fairly time consuming and also required help. You see, the codpiece wasn’t ALL about fashion and showing off- it actually had a purpose! In general, clothing was laced together to keep it on, and in particular, the upper stocks were laced to the doublet and the legs of the stocks were laced together (or just left open with a thin piece of linen to preserve modesty). Not only this an egregious breach of fashion, it probably have given him great difficulties any time he, er, had to use the little boys’ room. Something that men would not have been seen without during this time period. However, there is something missing here. Lower hose cannot be seen in this costume as Henry is wearing his breeches tucked into his boots. The shape of the upper stocks are reasonably within the various descriptions of the different types of upper hose, perhaps similar to “pluderhose”, which were baggy from the waist to the knee (Pendergast, 81)*. Even when visiting friends, the King of England would have to keep up appearances, so we would expect to see him wearing a robe or gown to emphasize his width, and therefore his importance. 1570Īnother issue with this costume, though I can’t quite label it an inaccuracy, is that Henry is not wearing anything over the doublet.
In the picture below, you can see that Henry’s doublet (middle), is much closer in appearance to the 1570’s doublet (right) rather than the one modeled by Francis I (left). The V-neck on the shirt is also inaccurate, as the shirts were gathered and tied at the top during this period, and so wouldn’t allow for this style.
The collar on both the doublet and the shirt also points to a time later in the century, as collars were not used on these garments until ~1540. As explained in my last post, the clothing of this time was designed to give the appearance of great width the sleeves on this doublet should be oversized and puffy, but are fairly fitted, with no puffs evident. There are some details of this costume that are at least partially accurate, but the majority of this costume is more accurate to clothing worn during his daughter Elizabeth’s reign, over 40 years later. His hair is cropped quite short, only an inch or so long, and he is clean shaven. Henry is wearing very little jewelry his main accessory is a jeweled gold chain encircling his shoulders.
THE TUDORS SEASON 1 EPISODE 10 OPENING SCENE FULL
Henry’s upper stocks are cut full and are tucked in to his knee high leather boots with turned down cuffs. The shirt appears to be V-necked and has a high, ruffled collar at the neck similar to the doublet. The doublet is unbuttoned at the neck and a shirt can be seen underneath. The doublet is sparsely decorated, with what appears to be gold beads or braid along the seams. The sleeves of the doublet are sewn to the body, there is no poof at the shoulder, and the sleeves are trim fitting. Attached to the bottom of the doublet is a short skirt of approximately 2-3 inches in length.
The doublet has a high standing collar, and buttons down the center. It is possible as well that the design could be embroidered, but I doubt that because it would be far more expensive. The raised texture (visible in the episode itself, but isn’t quite evident in the screenshots) of the design leads me to believe that the fabric is brocade, which is a woven fabric that has a raised design. Takes a real man to pull off floral like that.įirst up for discussion is a costume worn by Henry VIII, played by Jonathon Rhys Meyers, as he travels by barge along the Thames in order to visit Thomas More and his family. The costume is very simple by renaissance standards, and mainly consists of breeches and doublet in a completely hideous lovely matching floral fabric.
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