Clothing

The clothes were very important in middle ages. Clothing showed people if people were peasants or nobles.
 * Medieval Clothing **

Medieval Clothing

In the middle ages, clothes showed which people did not need to work. They also showed what job you have and how much power you have. Women wore wimples to cover their hair. Wool or clothes is brought to their homes by the merchant. Other sellers were employed in the town workshops. There were clothes made out of silk, satin, wool and linen. Mostly women made clothes at middle ages and women tailors made it of colorful materials. They made shoes with leather and colored them with vegetable dyes.

** Clothes of the Nobles ** Anglo Saxons were influenced by new fashions in Europe. Velvet was first made in Europe in the thirteenth century. Kings went to Italy to buy clothes, peacock feathers, pheasant skins, silks, ribbons and fur. On the return journey pilgrim badges were sewn on their clothes. One of the kings, King Charlemagne wore clothes that were very simple. Kings, queens, princess and princes wore clothes made of cloth and cotton. Europe had laws about who could wear nice clothes or jewelry. Nobles wore the finest clothes, jewelry, clothes that is colorful, made out of silk, satin, velvet, good wool. Children’s shoes were made with a single wrap and the silk came from China. The precious stones were worn as jewelry by important people. Ring brooches were the most popular item from the twelfth century also diamonds became popular in Europe in the fourteenth century. If you wear nobles’ clothes they would be clean.




 * Clothes of the Peasants and Servants **

Peasants’ clothes were simple. Peasant’s clothes were dirty, smelly and peasant men wore stocking or tunics. Peasant women made all of their own clothing. Peasants clothes wore made out of wool and linen. Children wore clothes much like their parents wore. They also wore a hood called capuchin. Huntsmen hunted animals and made their clothes out of animal’s skins like deer, bulls, or common animals that you can name.


 * Conclusion **

If you were king or nobles, your clothes were beautiful like today. If you were peasant, you were very dirty and one color of dark color full all your cloth.

Jane Shuter The Middle Ages Eucational 2000 Fiona Macdornald First Facts About The Middle ages Peter Bedrick 1998 Sarah Howavth The Middle Ages Great Britain 1993

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