CLOTHING

Various tribes of nomads who fought the Roman Empire and started populating Europe had developed their own clothing and attire. Cold weather and sheep herding traditions led them to rely on wool as their primary fabric. Most of their garments were made from wool. The tunic, which was the main garment in the Roman Empire, was made of either one or two rectangles of wool with a hole in the center for the head, and was sewn on both sides. The tunic was the main garment for both men and women throughout the Early Middle Ages and Viking Ages. People wore a thin undertunic and a heavier tunic on top. The tunics varied in length, with women\\\'s tunics reaching to the ground and men\\\'s tunics gradually becoming shorter,so that at the end of the period they looked more like a modern shirt.Men and women wore the tunics belted. Men typically wore leg coverings in form of simple trousers.

The turning point in medieval fashion came in the eleventh century. Emerging monarchies in France, England, and Spain created courts, where wealth was spent on fashionable clothes. These monarchies sent knights and soldiers on religious crusades to the Middle East beginning in 1090, and the returning crusaders brought with them ideas for clothes and shoes from the developed societies of the Byzantine Empire (476–1453 CE) and beyond from the Near East. These influences brought a revolution in fashion. Wealthy people could afford to have their servants modify their clothings and shoes, and they helped invent several new fashions, including hose for men\\\'s legs, robes were now made in separate pieces of fabric. Currently we have few but authentic pieces of Clothings and Shoes for this period.

Late Middle Ages brought a revolution in fashion. Main reason being the emergence of professional tailor and cobblers. Before late middle ages people had made their own clothes and shoes or, if they were wealthy, they had servants make clothes and shoes for them. This meant clothes and shoes were fairly simple. In the developing kingdoms of Europe, however, skilled craftsmen began to organize themselves into guilds, or organizations of people with similar trades. One such trade was tailoring, making, repairing, and altering garments and shoes. By 1300 there were seven hundred tailors working in Paris, France alongwith many cobblers. Tailors across Europe developed new methods of cutting and sewing that allowed for closer fitting, more intricately tailored clothing. We present in this section some authentic clothings and shoes at affordable prices.

Our gambesons are all made of a comfortable inner layer of cotton, 2 layers of wool felt and an outer layer made of very strong canvas. This makes our gambesons extraordinary authentic.