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Late Middle Ages
from the mid-14th until the end of the 15th Century
The typical parts of the clothing of a man are:
Cotte - is getting shorter, until the mid calf.
New forms of dress:
Doublet (Wams) - First worn under the armor is becoming an independent piece of clothing, in short, open front with button (or alternatively with Nestelbänder to close)
Schecke - short upper garment, the front entirely open, very closely, with button bar and narrow sleeves.
Houppelande - Outer garment worn instead of the doublet, with some segments of the population has the short and not very close doublet first enforced. Houpelande often has very elaborately processed sleeves
Leg Warmers - with the reduction of the robe, the chaps are getting longer, and form a kind of very tight pants with a central part in the so-called step codpiece (comparable to today's tights), attached to a belt.
Mantle - as a new form of the shell become the Garnache, an open-front jacket, without sleeves, which are formed only by direct spread of the shoulder material.
Trousers with codpieceLate middle aged trousers with codpiece, which will be attached to a short jacket with fingerloop braids. |
Short jacket - late middle ageLate middle aged short jacket (doublet) made out of wool, with narrov sleeved and throughout buttoned. |
Doublet - Late middle age with metalbuttonsLate middle aged doublet according to the Italian fashion of the second half of the 15th century. |
Doublet Late middle age - fingerloopbraidsLate middle aged doublet according to the Italian fashion of the second half of the 15th century. |
Cotehardie with 'donkeyearsleeves' - Late middle ageLate middle aged cotehardie out of wool with doublesleeves (narrow sleeves and hanging so called 'donkeyearsleeves' - 'Eselsohrärmel'). |
Late middle aged doublet with foldsThe late middle aged doublet with folds (2nd half of the 15th century) is made out of wool. |
Chausses out of wool with foot partHigh middle aged chausses out of wool with foot part, which are attached to the belt with fingerloop braids and eylet holes. |
Jacket - Jopula - DoubletLate middle aged buttoned Jacket / Jopula of wool baased on the find of Herjolfsnes (Greenland). |
Braies short formBraies in the short form made out of a lightly bleached linen. This form of braies was worn in the 14th and 15th century. |
Undershirt out of linen (short form)Undershirt out of white (lightly bleached) linen, this form was especially worn in the late middle age. |
Woolen cloakCloak (Kappa) out of woolfabric - calf-length outerwear - a kind of cape with a hood. (other terms or spellings Capa, Cappa, Cappe) |