What is French hood?
[[File:Anne de Bretagne-Jean Bourdichon.jpg|thumb|right|[[Anne of Brittany]] wearing a French hood.]] A '''French hood''' is a type of [[hat]] or headdress. Women in [[Europe]] wore it in the 1500s.<ref name=Med>{{cite journal|url=https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/26751|journal=The Medieval Review|publisher=Indiana University|access-date=February 1, 2021|year=2019|title=Review of ''Medieval Clothing and Textiles''|author=Katherine Wilson }}</ref> It had a stiff, crescent-shaped frame that fit over the head like a headband. The front and back sides of the frame had pearls, beads or other decoration on them. The headband was attached to pieces of cloth called lappets that either covered the back of the head and most of the wearer's hair or were flipped forward onto the head. [[Anne Boleyn]], the second wife of [[Henry VIII]], was one of the first people in the English court to wear French hoods.<ref name=Guardian>{{cite news|title=Renaissancecore: why everyone is dressing like Anne Boleyn|access-date=February 1, 2021|date=October 16, 2019|author=Hannah Marriott|url=https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/shortcuts/2019/oct/16/renaissancecore-why-everyone-is-dressing-like-anne-boleyn|work=The Guardian}}</ref><ref name=Tudor>{{cite web|url=http://www.sixwives.info/tudor-hats.htm|access-date=February 1, 2021|publisher=Sixwives.info|title=Tudor Hats}}</ref> ==In popular culture== In her novel ''[[The Other Boleyn Girl]]'', Philippa Gregory has [[Anne Boleyn]] and her friends wearing French hoods and [[Jane Seymour]] and her friends wearing [[gabled hood]]s. ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Headgear]] [[Category:1500s in Europe]]