Say ȝes to the chausemles: Fashion in the Medieval West

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Medieval clothing was much more than simply a way to keep warm and decent: it was a statement about social class, wealth, and increasingly personal taste. Clothing meant something – and what people wore could change with a mood or the day or the family they were born into. Find out what medieval people were wearing, this week on Footnoting History!

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Further Reading
Chasuble Front with Orphrey Cross, 15th century, via Art Institute Chicago.

A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Medieval Age (The cultural Histories Series), Sarah-Grace Heller, ed., Bloomsbury Academic, (2021).
 
Mark Cartwright, “Clothes in Medieval England,” World History Encyclopedia, (2018).
 
Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: Objects, Texts, Images, Désirée G. Koslin and Janey E. Synder, eds., Palgrave Macmillan, (2002).
 
“Fashion Goes Medieval,” Medieval Manuscripts Blog, British Library, (2016).
 
Melissa Leventon, What People Wore When: A Complete Illustrated History of Costume from Ancient Times to the Nineteenth Century for Every Level of Society, St. Martin’s Griffin, (2008).
 
Françoise Piponnier and Perrine Mane, Dress in the Middle Ages, Yale University Press, (2000).
 
Margaret F. Rosenthal, “Cultures of Clothing in Later Medieval and Early Modern Europe.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 39 no. 3 (2009): 459-481.
 
Margaret Scott, Fashion in the Middle Ages, J. Paul Getty, (2018).
 
Annelisa Stephan, “The Medieval Clotheshorse: Roger Wieck on the Fashion Revolution of the Middle Ages,” Getty, (2011), 

Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)