Bristowe Hat

Not many pieces of clothing and accessories survive from the Tudor period. Many of the items people owned were quite expensive and were thus handed down to other family members over time. In addition, the Stuarts sold off a vast number of the Tudor wardrobe as well as Oliver Cromwell for the Commonwealth sale. It wasn't only sales and repurposing that decided the future of the wardrobe but the Great Fire of 1666 may have destroyed much of it as well. This piece has been [More]