17th Century dress continued in the softer style, but had a change in the waistline of both men and women by returning to the natural waist. Clothing and all other decorative arts also begin to acquire an excessive amount of ornamentation in what has come to be called the Baroque style. Women's sleeves in this period almost never cover the lower arms, a style that continues for another century. Menswear takes an important shift during the Restoration of the English Monarchy, when Charles II decides to adopt the three piece suit, and shortly all Englishmen follow this practical, straightforward fashion. After Louis XIV goes prematurely bald in the 1670's it also becomes the fashion for men to wear wigs instead of their natural hair.
Wigs stay in fashion for men until the end of the next century.
Women adopt a wired lace headdress known as the Fontage to further heighten and elongate the silhouette in the 1680's-90's, a style that persists into the first decade of the next century. Then, as now, people got riled up on issues of female modesty, fashion change and cross dressing. Write a short synopsis of the text, and reflections on the attitude towards dress in it, and post it either to your web page, or to the Message Board by February 25. Lady in the fashion of 1605. Lady in formal dress of 1620.