How To Dress in the Middle Ages
Gone Medieval
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The Importance of Availability in Fashion
Fashion was probably less of a concern for those lower down the social scale who just needed their clothes to be practical. There's an irony, which is that the nobles were constantly in debt. So there's anxiety over people who weren't born to importance being able to manipulate fashion to attract attention. And peasants could be very enterprising too. They exchanged land. They built up farms. Peasants could be wealthy and there's downward mobility as well.
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