17th C. Costume - illustration done 19th C. or later
South-west
dress - some German influence
From the north
west, early 17th C.
Dress, jacket and bonnet 1647-1663
Dresses with short narzutkami, shirts (koszule) or coarse material with
small bonnets (czepki) of thicker gauze-like tissue fabric(tkanin). The men are
wearing zupans.
Left, a 1640 and 1680-1690 costume. Right, a
mid 17 century woman from Krakow.
From a 20th C.
costume book, the left woman seems to be in a 1630-40s outfit, and the right woman, seems
to be a colored version of the 1680-1690 costume pictured right above.
Bartkiewic Says: Among the many of foreign extraction, who had not lived long in Poland,
and
among the Royal court, the fashion was Western, following the Spanish mode.
This fashion was modified by German, French and Dutch influences. See
her article on womans fashion!
Left, costume from the early to mid 17th C. The left two are in very upscale Polish costume. The Queen is in a fashionable western outfit. (women of the court, most wealthier noble women, and townswomen wore western fashion in Poland,)
Above, From John Speed's 1626 Map of Poland
From J. Hondius 1620 Map of Poland ... below Speed Poland 1630
Fortuna (Kismet) from a 17th C. Polish illustration.
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