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The Medieval period in England is usually classified as the time between the fall of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the Renaissance, roughly the years AD 410–1485.. For various peoples living in England, the Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Danes, Normans and Britons, clothing in the medieval era differed widely for men and women as well as for different classes in the social hierar
St John the Baptist wears his iconographical clothes, but the sainted English kings Edward the Confessor and Edmund the Martyr are in contemporary royal dress. The Wilton Diptych 1395–99. Wool was the most important material for clothing, due to its numerous favourable qualities, such as the ability to take dye and its being a good insulator. [5]
Survey of historic costume: A history of Western dress (2nd ed.). New York: Fairchild Publications. ISBN 1-56367-003-8. Van Buren, Anne H. Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands, 1325–1515. New York: Morgan Library & Museum, 2011. ISBN 978-1-9048-3290-4
The angel wears iconographic dress. 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.
Medieval European costume generally covers clothing worn in Europe from the dawn of the Middle Ages (loosely c. 350-500 AD) to the birth of modern Western fashion around 1750. Clothing popularised c. 1750 through World War II is categorised under Category:History of clothing (Western fashion) .
Portrait of the family of Sir Thomas More shows English fashions around 1528.. Fashion in the period 1500–1550 in Europe is marked by very thick, big and voluminous clothing worn in an abundance of layers (one reaction to the cooling temperatures of the Little Ice Age, especially in Northern Europe and the British Isles).