Fashion

=​**By Hannah**=

According to the king and queen the style changed, if the royal family was full of personality, the style would be colorful and different. If it was more of a laid back kind of a person it would be simple and more based on comfort. People in the royal family by law were the only people allowed to spend a lot of money on their clothes and wear certain materials such as gold, silk etc. In 1100-1135 King Henry I (William Rufus brother) married Good Queen Maude. They were a couple that changed the style of the time a lot. Clothes became more colorful by the use of expensive dyes. Then in the 1200s tight lacing on women's clothes became a popular style. It created a form fitting shape and accentuated the hips. In the late 1300s and early 1400 centuries all clothes started to be sold tighter and more revealing for men and women.

The importance of a woman knowing how to make yarn, cloth and construct basic garments within the family was highly important, because women were the ones to make the clothes. This is why the ability to create cloth made a woman an asset to the household. To make yarn out of the wool, with the wool under one arm, the spinner twisted a thread with the other hand. Once the cloth, yarn, wool and sometimes even long grass cloths, were made they would weave the items and use a wooden needle to sew them together.



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Even though different classes of people wore different clothes, the styles were the same. The style of clothes throughout that period was tunics, togas, trousers and laced sandals. Gowns and sleeves for girls were long, flowy and trailing. A usual woman’s dress was a simple shape with a long, wide gown decorated with embroidery at the edges or borders. Women's headdresses were long and pointed. High double horn headdresses were considered fashionable. Long pointed shoes were the style for shoes, the longer the point was, the higher the status you were. However, boy’s clothing started to become shorter. Boys wore shirts that were comfortable, loose, had laced up fronts and ruffled collars, or didn’t wear one. You could often find men wearing cloaks and capes. Some even had hoods.

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