Medieval Clothing History

July 19, 2008 – 10:02 pm
In your own opinion would you rather wear some type of rags or  or a beautiful garment made of a yarn of spun woven silk. In the middle ages you had absolutely no choice what you would get to wear, this was during the medieval clothing era. If you were of a younger age and were the child of a peasant would you basically wear anything you could get your hands on. If you were royalty though it would be beautiful silken robes with ivory tapestry woven through the broach area of the medieval clothing or even a beautiful silk gown. The medieval clothing was very rough and at times unbelievably scratchy, but in some cases if you had an amazing tailor the clothes would be women and sewn to perfection and look absolutely beautiful on any man or woman.
Tailoring during the medieval clothing ages was done mostly for the notably very wealthy and most of the time the clothes were actually manufactured and created by the tailors themselves. The most often used fabrics during those times would be: perse, kersey chalons, sandal, burnet, lincoln scarlet, russet and damask. Most often though in the medieval clothing ages the majority of all populations actually created their clothing themselves as during those times clothing wasn't that important.
The clothing that was worn varied slightly from prestigiousness to poverty, queens and kings would most often be laden with beautiful crowns and brightly woven silks. Their clothing most of the time was unbelievably expensive because they had an ungodly amount of money and could actually afford it and other things that were undeniably beautiful. The shoemakers and their wives and sons and daughters would many times wear borealis hats. Their clothes that they wore with that were woolen coats medieval clothing as is with fur on the sleeves. Often times this fur would get dirty and brittle and the seamstress would have to cut it off and apply new fur, this would be the new age medieval clothing technique that would outlast centuries of other types of tapestry.
The holy people such as friars and priests were often outfitted with hoods and habits. Often on their clothes they would tie a rope belt around their waist and there would be wooden beads for counting the number of prayers they said throughout the day.
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