Trend
The clothing and fashion during the Middle Ages was dominated and highly influenced by the Kings and Queens Only the wealthy could dress in fashionable clothes. Sumptuary Laws restricted people in their expenditure including money spent on clothes.
900 1000
influenced by the classical styles of the Greek and Roman women so tight as to display all the elegance of their form made so high as completely to cover the neck consisted of two tunics, and of a veil or drapery
1100-1200
Men
shirt, braies, and chausses Outer tunics or doublets Headgear
Women
Headgear
Men of the upper classes often went hatless. The chaperon in the form of hood and attached shoulder-length cape was worn during this period, especially by the rural lower classes, and the fitted linen coif tied under the chin appeared very late in the century. Small round or slightly conical caps with rolled brims were worn, and straw hats were worn for outdoor work in summer.
Women
A cap was worn made of linen with lappets hanging down over the shoulders The surcoat was at first worn only by females, but it was soon adopted by both genders a broad band, which was tied under the chin, and gave the appearance of a kind of frame for the face
1200 - 1300
Men
Higher class [People who were richer] Working men
Women
Men
Men wore a tunic, cote or cotte with a surcoat over a linen shirt. One of these surcoats was the cyclas, which began as a rectangular piece of cloth with a hole in it for the head. Over time the sides were sewn together to make a long, sleeveless tunic. When sleeves and sometimes a hood were added, the cyclas became a ganache (a cap-sleeved surcoat, usually shown with hood of matching color) or a gardcorps (a long, generous-sleeved traveling robe, somewhat resembling a modern academic robe). A mantle was worn as a formal wrap. Men also wore hose, shoes, and headdress. The clothing of royalty was set apart by its rich fabric and luxurious furs. Hair and beard were moderate in length, and men generally wore their hair in a "pageboy" style, curling under at necklength. Shoes were slightly pointed, and embroidered for royalty and higher clergy.
Working Men
short cotte, or tunic, with a belt. slit up the center of the front long braies or leggings with legs of varying length, often visible as they worked with their cotte tucked into their belt. Hose could be worn over, attached to the drawstring or belt at the waist. Hats included a round cap with a slight brim, the beret (just like modern French ones, complete with a little tab at the top), the coif (a little tight white hood with strings that tied under the chin), the straw hat (in widespread use among farmworkers), and the chaperon, then still a hood that came round the neck and over the shoulders. Apart from aprons for trades like smithing, and crude clothes tied round the neck to hold seed for sowing, special clothes were not worn for working.
Women
Luxury was at its height when gold and silver, pearls and precious stones were lavished on clothes Gowns with tight bodices were generally adopted a tight jacket, reaching to a little below the hips, often trimmed with fur
1300 - 1400
Mens fashion
shirt, braies, and chausses Tunic and coteheardie Headgear
Womens Fashion
Women
The hair was kept back by a silken net The fashion of wearing false hair continued in great favor Women's clothing, the coats and surcoats, often trailed on the ground Hats consisted of a frame of wirework covered over with stuff which was embroidered with lace
1400 - 1500
Mens fashion
shirt, braies, and chausses Outer tunics or doublets Headgear
Women
Headgear
Early in the century, the hood remained a common component of dress for all classes, although it was frequently worn around the neck as a cowl or twisted into the fantastical shapes of the chaperon. Hats of various stylestall-crowned with small brims or no brims at all, or low-crowned with wider brims pulled to a point in frontbegan to compete with the draped chaperon, especially in Italy. A brimless scarlet cap became nearly universal for young Florentines in particular, and was widely worn by older men and those in other cities. In mid-century, a bowl haircut with the hair shaved at the back of the neck was stylish. In Germany, and briefly in Venice, a wide shock of frizzy blond hair was often seen on images of lovers (and angels) in the later part of the centuryless often in portraits. By the end of the century, shoulder-length hair became fashionable, a trend that would continue into the early 16th century.
Women
Women wore long trains to their dresses, but were shortened. They began to uncover the neck and to wear necklaces The head-dresses of women consisted of very large rolls, surmounted by a high conical bonnet