Tuesday, May 17, 2011

What did European women wear?

Noble women's tunics and bliauds stayed long through the Middle Ages. Bliauds are fitted gowns. Sometimes women's sleeves were so tight they had to be resown every time they wore their dresses. They wore linen veils, the veils were usually coiled or braided. Women wore a cloth around their neck called a barbet. The barbets were held up with pins. Ladies fashion was to wear tall headdresses or hats. I wonder if anyone broke their neck from wearing those big headdresses? Women wore a piece of cloth around their torso; women didn't wear underwear just simpily a long shirt.


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