Medieval Fashion Trends

How did fashion change during the Middle Ages? Using images from medieval manuscripts, we can track some of the changes in fashion over the centuries. The styles of dress and clothing would see new trends emerge, ranging from long-toed shoes to plunging necklines.



The book, Medieval Dress and Fashion by Margaret Scott, offers a great resource about the changes in fashion during the Middle Ages. You can also learn more about medieval fashion from these articles:

Medieval Shoes

Medieval Nuns knew their fashion, historian finds

Medieval lingerie? Discovery in Austria reveals what really was worn under those tunics

Viking Fashions were provocative, historian finds

Medieval Garments Reconstructed: Norse Clothing Patterns

Anglo-Saxon costume: a study of secular civilian clothing and jewellery fashions

Constructing the Headdresses of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

Underwear in the Maciejowski Bible

Estreitement bende: Marie de France’s Guigemar and the erotics of tight dress

Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands

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