The 1600s began with what English-speakers would call "Elizabethan" fashion, but fashion changed after seeming to be adrift in the 1620s. By 1630, ruffs were gone; they had laid down to became collars.
Transition from ruffs to collars - 1620 to 1630
ca. 1622 Lady Elizabeth or Theresa Shirley in oriental clothing by Sir Anthonis van Dyck (Petwoth House - Sussex UK)
1622-1627 Portrait of a Genoese Noblewoman (also called Paola Adorno) by Sir Anthonis van Dyck (Frick Collection, New York City)
1623 Amy Seymour by follower of Robert Peake (Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum - Cheltenham, Gloucestershire UK)
ca. 1630 Lady, probably Pantasilea Dotto Capodilista, by Chiara Varotari (Museo d'Arte Medievale e Moderna - Padua Italy)
Countess Katarina Gyllenstierna by Georg Günther Kraill von Bemeberg (Skoklosters slott - Skoklosters Sweden)
Sir Thomas Lucy, Lady Alicia Spencer, and family by or after Cornelius Johnson (Charlecote Park, The Fairfax-Lucy Collection - Warwick UK)



































