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Second half of the sixteenth century
- “muffs have been used since the second half of the sixteenth century and have appeared in women’s dress with great regularity. Large muffs were optional accessories for extremely stylish men in the 1690s and again in the 1770s to 1780s, while smaller ones were used in the first half of the eighteenth century.
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A muff is a fashion accessory for outdoors usually made of a cylinder of fur or fabric with both ends open for keeping the hands warm. It was introduced to women's fashion in the 16th century and was popular with both men and women in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Muff, in wearing apparel, usually cylindrical covering of fur, fabric, feathers, or other soft material, with open ends into which the hands are placed to keep them warm. Originally a purse and hand warmer in one, the muff was first introduced to women’s fashion in 1570, when fur trimming was.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The muff, a cylindrical accessory, usually furred, into which the wearer's hands are placed on either side, was called manchon in French, mouffe in Flemish, and manicone in Italian, and was first called snuffkin, skimskyn, and snoskyn in England.
Jun 17, 2011 · A muff is a fashion accessory for outdoors usually made of a cylinder of fur or fabric with both ends open for keeping the hands warm. It was introduced to women's fashion in the 1500s and was popular with both men and women in the 17th and 18th century.
King Louis XIV of France, who ruled from 1643 to 1715, had muffs made from the fur of tigers, panthers, otters, and beavers. Muffs could be fastened to a belt at the waist and secured by a loop of ribbon which hung about the neck. Muffs continued to be used by both men and women through the eighteenth century.
Dec 15, 2020 · One thing that I learned while researching this post is that muffs first became fashionable in the 1500s, much earlier than I had thought. Curator Beatrice Behlen of the Museum of London speculates that they were invented as the style of long, wide sleeves (think the portrait of Anne of Cleves) went out of style and something was simply needed ...
