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To enhance appreciation for the fashions of the era, four full-scale replicas of late medieval ensembles are presented, using period hand-sewing techniques and authentic materials—including silk velvet, gold brocade, linen, straw, and ermine. One is of the youth in the blue cote hardy from the Vows of the Peacock, indicative of the "Fashion Revolution." Another is the luxuriously embroidered houpeland of the aristocratic huntsman from the Livre de la chass. The voluminous gown and towering turret worn by Geneviève in the Romance of Tristan is brought to life in three-dimensional reality. Also featured is the houpeland of Catherine of Cleves, a replica on loan from Museum Het Valkhof in the city of Nijmegen, the Netherlands; the garment recreates the elaborate ensemble she wears while giving alms.
Orange houpeland (velvet) lined with fur (synthetic ermine) and with a belt (wool and silk), worn over a gold cote hardy (silk brocade), with hair in temples (silk, velvet, straw) with a veil (linen). 
Blue cote hardy (wool with pewter buttons), with white lined tippets (linen), worn over a red kirtle (wool) and red chaussembles (wool and leather), with a green dagged chaperon (wool lined with linen). 
Yellow gown (silk doupion) with black collar, cuffs, and hem (crushed silk velvet), white belt (silk doupion), and black turret (silk taffeta and crushed silk velvet) with transparent veil (silk organdy). 
Blue houpeland (silk velvet) lined with fur (synthetic grey) and embroidered with gold (silk yarn), with lilac collar and epaulettes (wool), worn over a lilac pourpoint (wool) and chaussembles (wool and leather), and with a black bonnet (astrakhan lined with wool).