In fashion parlance, a “grail” usually means something far removed from the days of King Arthur. But this season, all things ...
On the feast of St. Thomas Becket a former teacher has arrived in Canterbury, England, after re-enacting a remarkable 200-mile pilgrimage dressed only in medieval clothes, hauling a sack for his ...
Some may know that armored knights used upturned codpieces to attract woman at parties, but a new exhibition of medieval clothing shows that the fashion was also adopted by bold, gender-fluid ...
The University of Leeds is set to host a first-of-its-kind medieval fashion show. Embroidered silk and velvet dresses from the 11th to 16th centuries have been painstakingly re-created for this year’s ...
If you buy clothes in modern Japan, you can get cheap T-shirts for a few hundred yen. However, in times of ancient and medieval times when there was no mass production technology, clothes were ...
It is said clothes make the man, but in medieval times women were much better dressed than their male counterparts. Women often wore better quality clothes than men in the Middle Ages, an ...
Louise D'Arcens receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The Middle Ages might seem the last place feminists would go to seek inspiration. But from around the 1850s advocates for dress ...