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In the glittering world of Dior, the neck ruff is alive and well. The Elizabethan staple was a nod to Virginia Woolf’s transformative novel Orlando, courtesy of Dior creative director Maria ...

One of the best examples of this is the ruff. At the beginning of the Elizabethan period, both men and women start showing the collar of their smocks or shirts over the tops of their tunics.

Ian Mortimer: Take almost any painting from Elizabethan England and what do you see? Royal courtiers dressed in silk and velvet magnificent jewels and ostentatious ruffs extravagant feasts and ...