High Middle Ages Clothings & Shoes

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.