![]() Medieval peasants usually repaired their own clothing and shoes when they were worn out, the soles of worn out shoes would often be replaced.ĭifferent materials were tried out for shoe soles during the medieval period including wooden soles that were similar to clogs. Medieval shoes of peasants were normally made of animal skin such as calfskin or goatskin, shoe laces were made from leather. Reconstructed medieval peasants shoes Medieval peasant shoes ![]() “The man wears rough clothes full of holes his wife has bare bleeding feet and the baby is wrapped in rags” – Poem by the famous medieval poet Piers Plowman. The shoes worn by medieval peasants also differed in the North and South of Europe, with Northern medieval peasants wearing more substantial footwear. The longer trousers that were worn by medieval peasants were usually tied with thongs. Medieval peasants would usually wear a tunic, short breeches or sometimes long trousers depending on the severity of the weather. Northern European peasants usually worked in damp, muddy and cold conditions on their farms and dressed accordingly. ![]() Southern European peasants wore similar but different clothes to that of their Northern European counterparts because of the different climates. The clothes that peasants wore were usually uncomfortable and dull looking as they were not dyed or treated in the same way as clothing for wealthy Medieval people.Ī basic tunic was the common working dress of the medieval peasant plowman working the fields in medieval times. Early Medieval clothing for peasants and the poorest people in medieval society was made from coarse wool, linen and hemp cloth. ![]()
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