Culture
European fashion history 1400–1500
Fashion in 15th-century Europe was characterized by a series of extremes and extravagances, from the voluminous gowns called houppelandes with…
European Women’s fashion in 1300–1400
Fashion in fourteenth-century Europe was marked by the beginning of a period of experimentation with different forms of clothing. Costume…
European Men’s fashion in 1300–1400
Fashion in fourteenth-century Europe was marked by the beginning of a period of experimentation with different forms of clothing. Costume…
European fashion history 1200–1300
Costume during the thirteenth century in Europe was very simple for both men and women, and quite uniform across the…
European fashion history 1100–1200
1100-1200 in Europe, fashion was simple and differed only in details from the clothing of the preceding centuries. Men wore…
Early medieval European dress
The clothing of the Middle Ages in the West was determined to some extent by the phenomenon of Christianity and…
English medieval clothing
English medieval clothing changed very gradually from about 400 to 1100. The main feature of the period was the meeting…
Byzantine dress
Byzantine dress changed considerably over the thousand years of the Empire, but was essentially conservative. The Byzantines liked color and…
Anglo-Saxon clothing
Anglo-Saxon dress refers to the variety of early medieval European dress, or clothing, worn by the Anglo-Saxons from the time…