The University of British Columbia posted some great images and articles about Renaissance Dress during the Renaissance. "International Gothic styles continued to be popular well into the first decades of the 16th century. A gradual transformation to a rigid, geometric silhouette came with the introduction of the cone-shaped Spanish farthingale, which consisted of a series of hoops, graduated in size, sewn into a petticoat. The bodice was tightly stretched over the corset - or stays - giving an inverted cone shape to the upper body. Gowns were layered one over the other, the wide funnel sleeve of the outer gown showing off the slashed undersleeve. Necklines were square and shoulders pulled down tightly. Overskirts were split at center-front, to expose the underskirt, which was often of a figured cut velvet in a large floral pattern. The young Elizabeth wears this style in a portrait dated 1546. Her headdress is one of two frequently seen styles of the time, a crescent-shaped "French hood", here edged with pearls."
More images and passages can be read at: http://www.theatre.ubc.ca/dress_decor/renaissance_dress_northern.htm1530-1575
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