Total length and length of sleeves could vary. Men wore tunics and cottas more often and they were the only who wore it after XI century (however, peasant women were wearing it later too). The same situation was with decoration: from pure fabric to the gold-broidered embroidery all over surface. But, the rule of owner’s wealth worked here too: silk, velvet or brocade fabric could be used for sewing. This basic early medieval clothing, mainly sewn of thick wool, was worn over chemise. Shirts, tunics, cottas are the next layer of early medieval clothing, one after underwear. Though, women got pants to their wardrobes later on, only thanks to suffragists’ movement. Hereafter, pants were developing in natural way, becoming tighter/wider, longer/shorter, depending on the fashion. This mess was lasting until the XV century, when Italian fashionists “revolutionarily” sewn together two halves of long chausses and got… pants. Quite often, they wore two pairs of chausses - upper woolen and lower linen. Such stockings were held with lacings on the legs. Women wore chausses as well, but shorter models – a bit higher than knee. Men were dressing up in braies and chausses – long stock of thick fabric, which were fastened to the belt with strings. But, they forget about them to the X century. In the Early Middle Ages, men wore pants in all regions of North, Central and South Europe. Here, we come up with one of the most interesting paradox of male clothing – pants-amnesia. Next clothing elements are chausses and pants. But, there is a picture, showing a woman in braies as an implementation of violation of human and holy laws. There are discussions about it up to now, but there are still no conclusive proofs of wearing of pants by medieval women. However, women did not have such piece of clothing for a long time. Men’s pants called braies and was in use all the time, looking as pants, which could be long or short (almost bikini-style) and varied by width. Though, it was more difficult situation with lower undergarment. Depending on the wealth of owner, it could be very simple or almost completely embroidered. Undershirt was wide enough, with long sleeves and short cut on the neckline. Women and children’s models were ankle-length men’s could be hip-length. This chemise went along with any medieval citizen from the birth to death, being a shirt, pajamas, underdress and summer outfit for poor people. Of course, rich people could afford not to economize, but a piece of good woolen cloth (to wear 3-4 kids) was a generous gift to king from his rich subject. So, tailors were cutting tricky mosaic of small pieces of fabric. Poor men settled for gloomy grey and brown clothing.ĭesign and cut of medieval costumes is so curious because of objective reason – width of weaver’s loom. The richer wearer was, the brighter was color of his outfit. However, there were many muttons and easy-to-keep flax fields, so people used what they had.Īs to color, bright and deep scarlet, blue, green, yellow and other colors, which you can see on the gravures, were available for quite narrow group of deep-pocketed people. Silk and cotton were imported expensive fabrics. Getting off the topic, it’s worth to notice that there were two types of basic fabrics for medieval Europe clothing – wool and linen. It looked like a long tunic, generally made of linen (more rarely – of silk or cotton). Underdress – chemise – was common element as for men, so for women. Let’s start from separate medieval clothing elements, in particular from the first layer, worn next to the skin - men's underwear & women's underwear. So, we will tell about it a little to help you with choice. Real medieval clothing deeply varies depending on the region, historical period and social class. However, if we were considering such long dress or costume similar to what we seen in a movie about knights, so adult life allow us to choose of medieval clothing, which really agrees our look, if your soul desire to immerse in the fairytale. Long dress or chaste doublet allow you seeing yourself a lovely princess or honorable robber again. Medieval times’ clothing is a door to the fairytale for grown-up people.
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