Ideas for Costumes
My main source is a chapter of Burney's Cecilia. Read it here: http://www.munseys.c...ceciliaburn.pdf (Look for Book Two Chapter Three.)
a page here with pictures http://www.elizabethancostume.net/masque/index.html
Some Common Costumes
Domino
This was a heavy, usually black, cloak of three-quarter length, closed up the front, with sleeves and a hood and a mask attached to the hood. For both men and women.
Van Dyke
Dressing as a Van Dyke portrait.
Sultana
Sultan's wife - something bright and oriental looking with a turban.
Brigand
Diana
Goddess of chastity
Harlequinade Characters
Harlequin: Comic servant. Carries a "slapstick" to whack people with and wears diamond chequered trousers.
Columbine: Harlequin's love interest. Servant girl with cap and apron.
Pantaloon: Buffoon, Harlequin's enemy. "Pantaloon's costume usually includes a red tight-fitting vest and breeches ensemble, slippers, a skullcap, a comically over-sized hooked nose, and a grubby grey goatee."
Pierrot: Country bumpkin servant with a whitened face. (The sentimental characterisation was later in the 19th century.)
Clown
From Cecilia:
"Spaniards, chimney−sweepers, Turks, watchmen, conjurers, and old women; and the ladies, shepherdesses, orange girls, Circassians, gipseys, haymakers, and sultanas."
Some pictures: http://locutus.ucr.e...dress/masq.html
Thanks to Rose!