Above is a picture of a woman's Italian shirt from the second half of the 16th century, from the Textile Museum in Prato. http://www.museodeltessuto.it/museo/collezioni/?lang=en
For an example of a man's linen shirt with blue silk embroidery from the Textile Museum in Prato, please visit https://www.pinterest.dk/pin/20969954487488406/
Pictured above is a smock; English, circa 1575-1585. In Queen Elizabeth I's New Year's Gifts of 1588-9, this entry is listed: 'one smock of fyne Holland cloth, fair wrought with black silk'. The embroidery on this pictured smock (V&A Museum) includes an eglantine rose and a Tudor rose; the Queen was given many similar blackwork garments. http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O78732/smock-unknown/
Pictured above from the Met Museum is a panel of blackwork embroidery circa 1580-1620. http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/223032
Other websites to visit for examples:
http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/blackwork-fragment-65915
http://mfastpete.org/obj/albanus-wolfhart-of-lindau/
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/217866
https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/84657.html
