Describes the making and wearing of clothing in the Middle Ages.

Examines the role of clothing in medieval society and discusses trends in clothing styles and the characteristic dress of different classes of people.

During the medieval period, people invested heavily in looking good. The finest fashions demanded careful chemistry and compounds imported from great distances

Twelfth- and thirteenth-century medieval French texts reveal the presence of a developed fashion system long before the previously accepted birth of Western fas

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