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Key Stage Two News
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| Our Visit to The National Portrait Gallery |
Year 5 visited the Tudor Galleries at the National Portrait Gallery on 24 January. We learned a lot about Tudor kings and queens, especially about what they wore. |
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| Underneath their bodices and skirts, rich Tudor women wore a corset, and a farthingale, to make their clothes look the fashionable shape. Asena was helped to try on a corset and a farthingale by our tutor Lesley and her “lady-in-waiting”, Amelia. |
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| Then Asena dressed up in a golden gown, with an ermine collar, and jewellery which looked like the rubies, diamonds and pearls Queen Elizabeth I wore for her coronation. Pearls signified purity, rubies her love for her country, and diamonds her strength. |
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We looked at men’s clothes too. Nabil tried to pose like the portrait of Sir Philip Sidney behind him. His puffy short trousers were the height of Tudor fashion: they were called padded trunk hose. His doublet (jacket) is padded too to give it that particular shape: Nabil isn’t pushing his tummy out.
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Elizabethan fashions in dresses changed when Queen Elizabeth got older, so women needed a different sort of frame under their skirt. Nayeema tried one on, and we could see how it supported a dress like Elizabeth was wearing in this picture. |
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Nayeema used a mask to look more like Queen Elizabeth with her very high forehead, whitened skin, and drawn-on blue veins. We all agreed Nayeema looked a lot better than the mask.
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