Sindvald Larsen, Clothes, Culture and Crafts - Dress and Fashion among Artisans and Small Shopkeepers in the Danish town of Elsinore 1550–1650

This study brings attention to the culture of dress among Danish local artisans, small shopkeepers and service providers, such as goldsmiths, bakers, butchers, barbers, smiths, shoemakers, carpenters and coopers and painters in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Based on almost three hundred household inventories, from the Danish town of Elsinore, as well as using visual images, material evidence and printed sources, this study investigates what kind of clothing and accessories...