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	Topics Ruff (clothing) Topic Home A ruff is an item of clothingClothing Clothing is defined, in its broadest sense, as coverings for the torso and limbs as well as coverings for the hands , feet ... worn in Western EuropeEurope Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth.... from the mid-sixteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century. The ruff evolved from the small fabric ruffleRuffle In sewing and dressmaking, a ruffle, frill, or furbelow is a strip of fabric, lace or ribbon tightly gathered or... at the drawstring neck of the shirt or chemiseFacts About Chemise The chemise, also called a smock or shift, is a simple garment worn next to the skin to protect clothing from sw... . They served as changeable pieces of cloth that could themselves be laundered while keeping the wearer's doubletDoublet Doublet is:two different narrative accounts of the same actual event - this use of doublet* is mainly present in textua... from becoming soiled at the neckline. The discovery of starchStarch Starch is a complex carbohydrate which is insoluble in water; it is used by plants as a way to store excess glucose.... allowed ruffs to be made wider without losing their shape. Later ruffs were separate garments that could be washed, starched, and set into elaborate figure-of-eight folds by the use of heated cone-shaped goffering irons. At their most extreme, ruffs were a foot or more wide; these cartwheel ruffs such as the one in the portrait to the right required a wire frame called a supportasse or underpropper to hold them at the fashionable angle. By the end of the sixteenth century, ruffs were falling out of fashion in Western Europe, in favor of wing collarCollar (clothing) In clothing, a collar is the part of a shirt, dress, coat or blouse that fastens around or frames the neck.... s and falling bandsBands (neckwear) BandsAccording to the Oxford English Dictionary, since the 18th century these have been called bands rather than by the ... . The fashion lingered longer in HollandHolland Holland is a region in the central-western part of the Netherlands.... , where ruffs can be seen in portraits well into the seventeenth century, and farther east. It also stayed on as part of the ceremonial dress of city councillors (Senatoren) in North German HanseaticHanseatic League The Hanseatic League comprised an alliance of trading guilds that established and maintained a trade monopoly over the Balt... cities and of Lutheran clergyClergy *Clergy* is the generic term used to describe the formal religious leadership within a given religion.... in those cities and in DenmarkDenmark The Kingdom of Denmark is the smallest and southernmost of the Nordic countries.... . In the twentieth century, the ruff inspired the name of the Elizabethan collarElizabethan collar An Elizabethan collar, shaped like a truncated cone, is worn by a pet, usually a cat or dog, to prevent it scratching a wou... for animals. External links Part I of IV see "Supportasse" from modest 1530s ruffs to the gigantic ruffs of the 1590s