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1300–1400 in European fashion. Clothing of the first half of the 14th century is depicted in the Codex Manesse. In the lower panel, the man is dressed as a pilgrim on the Way of St James with the requisite staff, scrip or shoulder bag, and cockle shells on his hat. The lady wears a blue cloak lined in vair, or squirrel, fur.
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English ploughmen, c. 1000. Early medieval European dress, from about 400 AD to 1100 AD, changed very gradually. The main feature of the period was the meeting of late Roman costume with that of the invading peoples who moved into Europe over this period. For a period of several centuries, people in many countries dressed differently depending ...
Women also wore the chaperon, a draped hat based on the hood and liripipe, and a variety of related draped and wrapped turbans. The most extravagant headdress of Burgundian fashion was the hennin, a cone or truncated-cone shaped cap with a wire frame covered in fabric and topped by a floating veil. Later hennins featured a turned-back brim, or ...
Chiton (garment) A chiton (/ ˈkaɪtɒn, ˈkaɪtən /; Ancient Greek: χιτών, romanized: chitṓn, IPA: [kʰitɔ̌ːn]) is a form of tunic that fastens at the shoulder, worn by men and women of ancient Greece and Rome. [1][2] There are two forms of chiton: the Doric and the later Ionic. According to Herodotus, popular legend was that ...
See also. Transgender portal. LGBTQ portal. Category. v. t. e. Cross-dressing is the act of wearing clothes traditionally or stereotypically associated with a different gender. [2] From as early as pre-modern history, cross-dressing has been practiced in order to disguise, comfort, entertain, and express oneself.
Bliaut. Woman wearing a one-piece bliaut and cloak or mantle, c. 1200, west door of Angers Cathedral. The bliaut or bliaud is an overgarment that was worn by both sexes from the eleventh to the thirteenth century in Western Europe, featuring voluminous skirts and horizontal puckering or pleating across a snugly fitted under bust abdomen.
Clothing in ancient Rome. Clothing in ancient Rome generally comprised a short-sleeved or sleeveless, knee-length tunic for men and boys, and a longer, usually sleeved tunic for women and girls. On formal occasions, adult male citizens could wear a woolen toga, draped over their tunic, and married citizen women wore a woolen mantle, known as a ...