Publisher's description:
This unique reference classifies the clothes and accessories of the 12th through the 15th centuries along social lines. Garments of every type, from the wardrobes of peasants and nobility, appear in over 200 period illustrations and patterns. Helpful advice covers: choosing fabrics, placement of seams, draping and folding garments, more. 203 black-and-white illustrations.
Unabridged republication of Medieval Costume and Life, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1931.

From the back cover:
This clear-cut, accurate, and richly detailed guide is much more than just another history of costume. It takes an effective and fresh approach, classifying the clothes and accessories of the twelfth through fifteenth centuries along social lines. Garments of every type from the wardrobes of peasants and nobility appear in over 200 period illustrations and patterns, presented not as inanimate museum exhibits but as items of vital interest and well worth recreating.
Here is the apparel of royalty, clerics, doctors, merchants, musicians, knights, artisans, farmers, and laborers - all magnificently illustrated with images from tapestries and illuminated manuscripts as well as in drawings and diagrams. Helpful advice covers choosing fabrics; placement of seams; draping and folding garments; how to walk, dance, and climb stairs in unfamiliar and sometimes cumbersome medieval attire; and even the best methods of storage.
Essential for professional costume and fashion designers, this book will prove invaluable to Renaissance fair-goers and others who delight in medieval style.
Dover (2003) unabridged republication of Medieval Costume and Life, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1931. Index.

Table of Contents:
page V INTRODUCTION. BY FRANCIS M. KELLY
XIII NOTES ON MATERIALS AND THEIR TREATMENT
1 ROYALTY
6 RELIGIOUS ORDERS
13 CLERKS
18 MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC FOLK
23 THE WELL-TO-DO BURGHER
28 MUSICIANS
32 HOSE AND BREECHES
38 GARTERS, SUSPENDERS, ETC.
39 SPORT
44 KNIGHTS AND ARMOUR
54 HUNTING
59 ARTISANS
69 APRON WEARERS
74 AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS
79 LABOURERS
85 HERDSMEN
89 CONCERNING HOODS
96 THE FULL SKIRT
102 LADIES' DRESSES
116 CHILDREN
120 TRAVELLERS AND PILGRIMS
127 BOOTS AND SHOES
128 INVALIDS
132 PEACE AND WAR
141 INDEX