In the middle Ages, the different people wore different clothing. Their clothing was made out of things like linen, silk and cotton. They would also wear things like hoses, stockings, damask gowns, velvet, surcoats, and luxury, big belts and lots more.

There were peasants that wore things like straw hats, linen shirts, leather flasks, hoses and pewter badges for good luck. A peasant is a person of the class comprising small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, and labourers on the land which were these constitute the primary labour force in the agriculture. Men tended to wear tunics that came down to their knees and leather shoes, if they were able to afford them. Women wore tunics that went down to their ankles, linen under-tunics, woollen over tunics and often a wool cloak if they were going to be outside; this depended on how much money they had. Women also sometimes wore woven tights or socks on their legs, but they never wore pants. The majority of Feudal Peasants wore loose linen or wool tunics. They got their material from the animals that they hunted.

Wealthy people would wear silks, velvet and damask. If you were a wealthy woman you would wear silk or silk undergarment covered by a gown or a surcoat. If you wore bright colours or longer coats that would mean u were one of the wealthy people. A wealthy person was one of the few that were rich, like the Kings and Queens. But most of the rich people were the Kings and Queens.

Kings and Queens wore bright coloured silks. They also wore a crown. They were the only ones that could afford silks because they were the richest.

The Royalty wore silk robes and damask gowns. The shoemaker’s spouses wore borealis hats and wool coats. They are the people who make the shoes wife or husband. A manor lord wore felt hats with stirrups and a brown jacket. Medieval lords would wear luxury, big belts, stockings or hoses and shoes. The nobles wore breeches, stocking, shoes, the coat, surcoat and the headdress.

In the middle ages, the clothing changed for the wealthy. There were also so many things to know about the clothing. Like the clothing was rough and scratchy and the headdress was worn by people (guys or girls) throughout the middle Ages.

In Medieval Europe, as in the Roman period, most people wore loose linen or wool tunics like big baggy t-shirts. But clothing did become more complicated in the middle Ages, and more used to distinguish men and women of different professions from each other. Men mostly wore tunics down to their knees, though old men and monks wore their tunics down to the ground, and so did kings and noblemen for parties and ceremonies. Men sometimes also wore wool pants under their tunics. Wearing pants was originally a Germanic idea, and the Romans disapproved of it. But it gradually caught on anyway, especially among men who rode horses and in colder areas. Other men, especially noblemen, wore tights under their tunics. Knitting had not yet been invented, so they had to wear woven tights which did not fit very tightly. Outside, if it was cold, men wore wool cloaks.

On their feet, men wore leather shoes if they could afford them. You can tell if a medieval painting or tapestry was made before or after about 1300 AD by looking at the men’s' shoes. In the earlier paintings men wear shoes with square toes, but later the shoes have pointy toes and even curve up at the toes in a kind of hook, just to be extra fancy. Women also wore different kinds of clothes depending on who they were. All women wore at least one tunic down to their ankles. Many women, if they could afford it, wore a linen under-tunic and a woollen over-tunic, and often a wool cloak over that if they were going outside. On their legs women sometimes wore woven tights or socks, but women never wore pants. Nuns wore tunics like other women, but generally in black or white rather than colors. Noblewomen often wore fancy tall hats, sometimes with streamers coming off them. They sometimes plucked the hair from their foreheads to give themselves very high foreheads which people thought were beautiful.

Not much medieval clothing survives today, because clothing tends to rot when it is buried under the ground, and even in the air it tears and gets threadbare and then people uses it for rags. Most of what we know about medieval clothing comes from medieval pictures and sculptures, which have lasted better.