A jupe referred to a loose-fitting wool jacket or tunic for men.Burridge, Kate. Blooming English: Observations on the Roots, Cultivation and Hybrids of the English Language. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 146, . It was later restricted to an item of women's and children's clothing.

The term has now disappeared but was used up until the 19th century. Usage of this meaning of jupe for menswear became restricted to "jupe panels" in jackets. (In French the word jupe means "skirt.")

Historic use In Elizabethan England, the "jupe" was regarded as a French-style clothing item, and some accounts of the wardrobe of Elizabeth I mention a "jupe or Gascon coat".Elizabeth Goldring, Faith Eales, Elizabeth Clarke, Jayne Elisabeth Archer, John Nichols's Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: 1579-1595, vol. 3 (Oxford, 2014), p. 484. The jupe was apparently a riding garment and was worn by women with a "safeguard" skirt.Janet Arnold, Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd (Maney, 1988), p. 142.

In October 1564, a jupe was made for Mary, Queen of Scots with bodice and sleeves (avec le corps et manche).Joseph Robertson, Inventaires de la Royne Descosse (Edinburgh, 1863), p. 151. Some accounts of her execution, relate that she wore a red bodice or "pair of sleeves", described in French as "une juppe de velloux cramoisy brun".John Morris, Notes and Queries, 7th 8.IV (12 November 1887), pp. 382–383. A similar item is included in the 1586 inventory of her clothes.Alexandre Labanoff, Lettres de Marie Stuart, vol. 7 (London: Dolman, 1844), p. 235.

At the Scottish court four male pages and an African servant of Anne of Denmark were supplied with orange jupes in October 1590.Michael Pearce, "Anna of Denmark: Fashioning a Danish Court in Scotland", The Court Historian, 24:2 (2019), p. 143. In the 1590s, an Edinburgh tailor Patrick Nimmo supplied outfits comprising doublets, jupes, and breeches to clients including John Hamilton of Lettrick, Robert Jousie, Thomas McClellan of Barneicht, and Peter Kennoquhuy.Margaret H. B. Sanderson, Mary Stewart's People (Edinburgh: James Thin, 1987), pp. 84, 87.

See also

Harem pants, or jupe-culotte, jupe-sultane and jupe-pantalon

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