An Article By: Jessica Brennan
Everyone loves fashion but a short span of time it has changed drastically. In the middle ages you could tell the differences between the rich and the poor people with clothing and hygiene. People could tell by the way they smell, look, and how they dress themselves for the places that they go. In this page you are going to read about how the clothing that men and women would wear has changed, the hygiene h
as changed, but it might be a lot better than we think it is and also everything has changed from the past years but in the end we still use most of the style that we did back then, nowadays.
Peasant Clothing
Peasants wore clothing more catered to the way they live their day-to-day life.“The men wore stockings and tunics and the women wore long gowns with sleeveless tunics and wimples ,things to cover their hair, to cover their hair. Both men and women had sheepskin cloaks, woolen hats and mittens were worn in the winter for protection from the cold and rain. Leather boots where covered with wooden patanes, wore over the shoe to keep the feet warm, to keep the feet dry. The peasant women spun wool into the threads that were woven into the cloth for these garments.” "Medieval Clothing: Making a Statement in the Middle Ages"
Medieval Washing
Medieval people at all levels of society washed daily, enjoyed baths and valued cleanliness and hygiene. They are less clean than we are but they still washed daily with water and soap. The soap was made out of the manorial workshops, wood ash or potash, and natural soda. “The poor people or not as wealthy people, stayed clean and valued cleanliness and they did not like people who were filthy and smelly. Heating up water for a bath was very time consuming, so they did not take baths very often. Regularly washing from a basin, especially the hands before and after eating which was regarded as good etiquette in a period when cutlery was still a rarity for most people.” Tim O’Neill, Medievalist, Skeptic and amateur Historian.
Rich People clothing
For rich people the clothing was different. For the early medieval times, Men everything was almost woolen and then they had some things that were belted around the waist and they had a woman, most likely, embroider everything around it. Women had dresses tied around the waist with a white skirt to go underneath it. They had headdresses made out of linen and then held in place with hair ties and headbands. Things changed for the late medieval times, men wore fur velvet gowns over a long shirt that had embroidery and stockings around the legs. Ladies had to wear green woolen dresses, with a cream color fur.
Hygiene For the Rich
The hygiene for the more wealthy or rich people was a lot better, than it would be if it was for peasant. The nobility raised baths to high levels of luxury, with bathing in large wooden tubs of scented water with seats lined with silk. Being not only a solitary pleasure, but something shared with sexual partners or even parties of friends, with wine and food on hand, much like a modern hot tub or Jacuzzi. In conclusion, clothing has changed and is very different with wealthy people and non wealthy people.
Works Cited
Henry Shaw 1998
Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages
“Medieval Clothing: Making a Statement in the Middle Ages.” History, 31 May 2018, www.historyonthenet.com/medieval-clothing.
The Middle Ages is inspired by programs from The Western Tradition. Annenberg Foundation 2017
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Most of your errors are minor, but there are quite a few that would be caught if you were being careful. If you are gong to add citations in your article, you simply use a parenthetical (). Also, your resources are off a bit. The article is interesting, but ends abruptly.
This article is very well written and detailed nicely. The explanation of things were well worded. The article was not drug on it was simple but got to the point of the idea of the article.
Overall a very good article. It explains very well how they lived and what they wore back the. There are some minor spelling errors but it is still easy to tell what is being said.