Tuesday 4 May 2010

Medieval clothes

Here are some pictures of medieval clothes. The first picture shows peasant men in their costumes: stockings, tunics, hoods, poulaines... Now we will show you real medieval robes that peasant men used. These are now shown in a museum: And we also have a peasant woman's robe:
Sometimes they were tied in the waist, like this:

To finish with peasants, here's a couple working:

The following show wealthy women in their long gowns with more elborate headdresses. You can also see knights with their fighting clothes.
These were "poulaines", medieval shoes:

4 comments:

  1. In the M.A. peasants' shoes were called poulaines, and they were made of leather. However, naowadays we have many different shoes, like trainers and elegant shoes.

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  2. Maria I. eta Cristina A.10 May 2010 at 09:50

    In the middle ages poulaines were in fashion althought, nowadays we use shoes.

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  3. whereas in the middle ages they always put the same clothes on, nowadays we have variated clothes to put on.

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  4. Olaia A. Irati L.14 May 2010 at 09:40

    In the victorian period women´s clothes were very uncomfortable because of the hoop-petticoat, petticoat and the corset. However, nowadays clothes are very comfortables and the skirts have not petticoat.

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