Volume 15

Kölner Patrizier- und Bürgerkleidung des 17. Jahrhunderts. Die Kostümsammlung Hüpsch im Hessischen Landesmuseum Darmstadt
Johannes Pietsch and Karen Stolleis with a contribution by Nadine Piechatschek.
Text in German, English translation of the introductory chapters available

Volume 15 of the Riggisberger Berichte presents the most important collection of seventeenth-century bourgeois costumes. The coherent ensemble of bodices, doublets and men's gowns provides, with the help of pictorial and documentary sources, fundamental insights into the clothing of the period, its making and manner of wearing. Costume historical and technical analyses as well as extensive material analyses contribute valuable information. The richly illustrated catalogue section includes full views as well as views of the insides of the costumes and many details in colour as well as drawings of the cut of each costume. A separate chapter is devoted to the elaborate conservation and the made-to-measure figurines.