Medieval Fashion Story

The medieval fashion are strongly influenced by the royal courts of Europe. The crusades are many beautiful materials such as fine silk, satin, velvet and brocade ate. Sumptary laws also helped to form the medieval fashion. Sumptary legislation limits the lower class people from the dressing station by reducing the money they spend on clothing. Under laws issued by Edward III only royalty were allowed to wear cloth of gold and purple silk. Lower women not wearing veils expensive. These rules return at intervals throughout history, especially during the reign of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.

Both men and women like to wear very bright red. The color yellow was worn only by the Jewish community. At the beginning of the Middle Ages, women lose fitting clothes and poured on the ground with tight fitting sleeves around the wrist.

Around the beginning of the 13th century, women began to wear dresses, rained on the side or front, although not corset shows the first steps towards the design of the body through clothing.
Head dresses were very popular during the Middle Ages. They ranged from the unusual "butterfly", which was a thread in the shape of a butterfly behind a veil, to the more demure coif, a narrow white linen cap under the head and ears.