Fashion In Medieval Times

In Medieval times, fashion for men and women were not the same as fashion in modern day. Fashion in the Medieval times remained generally the same, as in Modern day the fashion trends tend to change often. In Geoffrey Chaucer’s, The Canterbury Tales, the characters introduced have certain clothing and colors that would have a meaning in the Medieval times, though compared to Modern day fashion styles, the clothes really have no meaning to them. Modern day societies have drastically changed their clothing styles and fashion on male and female fashion since the Medieval times.
In Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, the characters introduced, each have certain clothing attires. In medieval times certain clothing, colors, and styles would
Modern day women most often wear any clothing that is in trend. In modern day women think they “have to have” the greatest and newest trends. Modern day women have the option to choose any type of tops, bottoms, shoes, and dresses they desire to wear. Today, women can wear anything that they want as long as they purchase it. If they do not have a certain clothing item, women are allowed to buy clothes from any clothing department store. As in medieval times, clothing department stores were not really in yet. All women typically dressed the same as one another in the 14th century. Women in medieval times wore clothes like woolen tunics, cloaks with brooches, low neckline tops, as well as skirts to knee length dresses with ruffles, and also high heels. Women also wore horned headdresses and heart-shaped headdresses. Women in the 14th century usually wore head coverings like hats and veils, where as in today women can wear hats if wanted, but not because it is required. Women in modern day typically only wear veils on their wedding day, and hardly ever wear
Today the clothing is way distinctive than the clothing from the medieval times. Clothing today is mostly made by a machine in a factory, but some people in modern day still hand make their clothing. In medieval times, clothing was generally man made considering they did not have the technology or machinery needed to make the clothing. Today’s fashion is made up by many different fabrics such as cotton, wool, silk, satin, polyester, and many more. In medieval times, the clothing would most often be made by wool and linen. Modesty of clothing is another drastic change in womens fashion since the medieval times. Clothing used to be very modest, and it seems like now clothing continues to become less modest the newer the trend