Ruff (clothing) - Gallery

Gallery

  • Philip III of Spain ca. 1615. Detail from a portrait by Velázquez

  • The wife of the burgomaster of Lübeck, 1642

  • Members of an English school choir wearing ruff collars, ca. 1960

  • The ruff as worn by Danish bishop Erik Norman Svendsen, ca. 2010

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