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Role of Medieval Costumes in Daily Life of Medieval People

During medieval period social status of people played a great role in shaping the dressing style. Royals and nobles had approach to expensive and extravagant clothes. They were people who set the trends and made fashion statement. Their medieval costumes were colorful, adorned with precious metals, beautiful lacing, embroidery and combination of different rich fabrics like silk, velvet, damask, fur and taffeta but for the lower class people medieval dresses were much more than fashion, it was about the utility and need. Although cotton, wool, lenin and shipskin were the fabrics that they afford yet the miserable living condition make them to wear anything to protect themselves from chilly winters.

Wearing hat was made mandatory for people irrespective of their standing in society. Wealthier people found a way to show their class in this rule also, they started wearing the slightly raised hat with fur as compared to poor people who were mostly seen in caps. Farmers and peasants were commonly seen in tunics and preferred to wear them in sleeveless as they had to work on fields. Medieval costumes were divided into many layers due to long winter period. Common women wore lenin chemise, kirtles, tight bodice, tunics made from the fabrics of cotton and wool. When the law stating that the lower people could only wear a single colored fabric was passed, they started using slashing technique to add contrast to fabric and to show their anger.

Medieval dresses of kings and queen were magnificent. Very fine work on them by artisans made them expensive and stunning. Extravagant brooches, jewelries, necklace, crowns were part of their daily life.
These costumes were so costly that they were considered as investment for hard days by makers.

Some unemployed seamen after a long period of exploitation and miserable living condition became rebellious and took the path of pirates in search of lavish and luxurious life style. However swashbuckling pirates tend to wear anything from their loot but the captains had specific dressing style, mostly their wardrobe were consist of loose pirate shirt and pirate pants, knee high boots, belts or sash to support upper parts of body and weapons like swords.

Medieval costume enthusiast can now easily afford these dresses from online stores. If someone is not interested in buying clothing randomly then they can pick from complete grab set as it provide a set of medieval clothing which can best fit to them without getting confused what to buy to make a perfect attire.

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