Medieval Gowns Garbes and Shoes for Faire Goers

You can find a wide range of suitable replica Renaissance dresses online, professionally made to actual designs worn during the period as seen in paintings and other contemporary sources. There are clothes worn by the high born, and also by the peasantry. A noblewoman would keep her dress dry and clean by wearing a chemise underneath it, which absorbed perspiration and also protected the dress from the everyday grime of the era.

A chemise was frequently used also to sleep in, and in these days there was not always the distinction between clothes for sleeping and those for daytime wear. People had different hygiene standards in medieval times, and it was common for the day attire to also be the night attire, being changed only when it got dirty or too infested to be tolerable.

You, of course, need not be so frugal with your own Renaissance dress, and can also use normal sleeping attire! You have a good choice of period dresses online, with options at either end of the class scale. Noblewomen would wear sumptuous colorful floral dresses with low necklines, or simple cut long slender dresses with wide trim and gold piping or embroidery. This would be set of with the perfect choice of gold jewelry and lavish stones. Both options can be found online, or you might prefer a peasant style of dress.

Peasant clothing in these times tended to be fairly straight cut right down to the bottom, perhaps with a bottom flare to allow freedom of movement for work and riding. Women did not wear trousers in these days, and jeans were yet to be invented, so they worked in their dresses. Peasant dresses were worn for longer before washing, so they tended to wear skirts and muslin under-dresses. Replicas of these are also available from online medieval stores.



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Medieval Dresses for Festival Fun

Women normally wear medieval dresses when they attend Renaissance Festivals, which are becoming increasingly popular, especially in the USA where there is a growing desire to learn more about history in a practical rather than academic way.

The Renaissance period of Europe lasted from the mid fourteenth to the mid sixteen centuries, and was an age of enlightenment and the rebirth of mankind from the darkness of the beginning of the second millennium into an age when the arts, science, reason and Christianity held sway over ignorance and dogma. However, after two hundred years of enlightenment, the Church decided ‘enough’ and, beginning with the intolerance of Savonarola and the Medicis in the 1490s and ending with the Inquisition in the 1540s, the Renaissance period was over.

However, this period in European history is commemorated by Renaissance and Medieval Faires and festivals, which is one reason for the growing popularity of medieval dresses. People want not only to attend these faires, but also to dress according to the proper historical period when they attend them. In fact some Renaissance festivals demand it! The original American Renaissance Festival was held in California in 1963, and you can now find one every month in Florida, and many others besides.



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Renaissance Fair time has ended

What many do not know is the Renaissance period covered some 300 years from the end of the 1300s to the beginning of the 1700s. A long time, and it covered many eras of different fashions in many different countries. The great Italian period of the 14th and 15th centuries were over by the great French and English periods of the 16th to 17th centuries. Many would disagree of course, but this is about clothing and not greatness of the nations.

There are some websites from which you can purchase reproduction medieval and Renaissance costumes, and if you get the right ones then you will have a marvelous range from which to choose. You have a choice of shoes and boots of the period, shirts, doublets, jackets and uniforms. If you want them for a collection or simply to wear at functions, themed parties or as a really authentic dress for a costume ball, then you will be able to choose from clothing made to genuine designs of the period.

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Renaissance Costumes for today's Lady in Waiting

How about a gorgeous emerald dress that would have been worn by a real ‘lady’ in these bygone times, or would you prefer the more earthy appeal of a peasant dress or skirt, or even a pure white Celtic chemise? There is a lot more to the Renaissance period than most imagine, and these were the days of Pirates of the Caribbean, including the famous female pirates. You can own a typical female pirate costume of the era to show off at your next themed barbecue.

Or how about a beautiful ladies fleur-de-lis gown in navy and gold as would have been worn at the French court? Would you prefer something for a man, such as peasant’s breeches or the cross gartered longer trousers as worn by a higher class villein? These were the days of distinction, not only between classes of nobles, but also between classes of peasants. The peasants themselves, all over Europe, were of different classes and these were distinguished largely by the type of clothing they wore.


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Medieval and Renaissance Costumes for Your Next Themed Party

When most people think of medieval and Renaissance costumes, they think of marvelously beautiful dresses worn at sumptuous balls, and the long flowing dresses normally associated with ladies-in-waiting to the Queens of Europe. The think of the regal and the royal, the great kings and queens and the aristocracy of Europe.

However, it was not all like that, and most do not really understand that the Renaissance period in Italy took a long time to sweep to the rest of Europe. Italy had its day in the classical eras of Michelangelo Buonarroti, who was commissioned by Pope Julius II to repaint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel that took from 1508 to 1512 to complete. That occurred during the true Renaissance period.

It was also the period of Leonardo Da Vinci and Raphael, and while you are unlikely to be able to afford to purchase any work by any of the great Renaissance painters, you will be able to purchase the clothing that may have been worn by them. Don’t get excited - not the actual garb, of course, but a reproduction of it. The real things have rotted away many centuries ago. However, there is a lot of medieval and renaissance reproduction costume and clothing available online these days. Get the right website, and you will be in a dreamland.



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Looking for Renaissance clothing, Renaissance costumes

Whatever type of Renaissance clothing you are seeking, you will find it online. However, please keep in mind that the era of rebirth of science and art in one country was still the dark ages in another. It took over 300 years for the Renaissance to affect all Europe as it was known at that time, and the more advanced countries were not necessarily as they are now.

Five hundred years of war have changed Europe beyond all recognition, and yesteryear’s knight would not recognize today’s boundaries, or even country names. However, one thing will not change, and that is the type of clothing that they wore. That is known from remnants found, and now displayed in museums, and from drawings and early printing from the Renaissance period.

There is a wide variety of medieval and Renaissance costumes available online today, and if you find the right website you will find a treasure trove of wonderful clothing that exactly replicates what was worn by the people of these times. Many regard them as exciting times, but for others they were times of witchcraft, burnings at the stake and hideous torture.

Whether rebirth or excruciating death, it all depends on your point of view. You, however, can enjoy the clothing they wore, and show it off at your next Renaissance party or medieval themed barbecue.





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Men's Renaissance Clothing - Medieval Costumes

Men were slightly different than women in that their costumes had more variability according to their position. Whereas women were chattels, the men had a position to hold, and even the serfs dressed according to their position in the serfdom of the day. Breeches were worn by the lowest classes, while the higher serf such as the villein or freeman, would wear long cross gartered trousers. It is the reproduction coats and shirts, however, which most people yearn for.

Leather doublets, brigandines and even musketeer’s shirts and tunics are in great demand, and a French highwayman’s coat or a Scottish kilt of the era are also available. Although this was the Renaissance era in Italy, the fourteenth century was also the era of William Wallace and Robert Bruce, the great heroes of Scotland. Agincourt was fought in 1514, and these were the times of the armor clad knights, Joan of Arc and the three Musketeers.

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Medieval and Renaissance Costumes for Modern People

Medieval and Renaissance Costumes for Modern People

Medieval and renaissance costumes bring to life the fashion sense of the men and women of early fifteenth to late sixteen century Italy, and of the rest of Europe up to half a century later.

Although the term ‘fashion sense’ might appear to be a facetious term for that era, in fact the Italians were no less fashion conscious five hundred years ago as they are now. Then, Renaissance was the time of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and the Tudors such as King Henry VIII. It was a time of rebirth, which is what the word literally means. So was the clothing worn in that era up to the standard of the art and science that it is better known for?

What was medieval in Middle Ages England was Renaissance in Italy and France. What is commonly described as Renaissance clothing can range from a country maid’s costume, available from some online websites, to the full kit of a Lady in Waiting to the Italian throne. In fact if you are interested in this period of history you can purchase clothing designed to the exact styles worn by people of all classes in that era.

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Robin of Locksley Costumes and History

Robin Hood is an outlaw of old English folk tales, which may or may not have a basis in actual events. Many accounts of Robin Hood, though not the very earliest, bear a striking similarity to accounts of the life of a Norman noble who was disinherited and became an outlaw and an enemy of the King of England.

In older legends the outlaw's enemy is the local sheriff, but in later versions the sheriff is despotic and gravely abuses his position, appropriating land, levying excessive taxation, and persecuting the poor. In some tales the antagonist is Prince John, based on the image of John of England, who is seen as the unjust opposite character of his pious brother Richard the Lionheart. In the older version of the story, Robin Hood is described as a nobleman, the earl of Locksley, who was unjustly deprived of his lands. In other stories, he has served in the crusades, returning to England to find his lands pillaged by the dastardly sheriff.

In some tales he is the champion of the people, fighting against corrupt officials and the oppressive order that protects them, while in others he is an arrogant and headstrong rebel, who delights in bloodshed, cruelly slaughtering and beheading his victims. This tale changes a bit for more modern audiences.

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