Hosen

Hosen are essentially a pair of stockings or individual trouser legs attached to a belt with ties or loops. They should be long enough to tuck the braies inside and conceal them from view.

The chosen fabric for hosen and stockings, which is wool, is cut on the bias, giving them enough stretch to allow for movement (putting on and taking off)—the tighter the fit, the more stylish and therefore the better.

Gebende

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Braies

These look like linen boxer shorts… which is what they are. Thus, it was unseemly to have your braies on full display with a too-short cotte or ill-fitting hosen. An exception was made for physical labourers, such as farmers, who, judging from manuscript depictions, oftentimes worked the fields in just their undergarments.

Belts & Girdles

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Cotte; Cotehardie

Woolen fabrics could easily be plant-dyed, in opposition to linen – the former being a protein-fiber, the latter a cellulose fiber – meaning they have differnet chemical compositions which makes wool more receptive to natural dyes. This is one of the reasons why medieval outerwear is believed to have been made almost exclusively of wool.

Mirroring women’s fashions of this time, tightening the cotte and dropping the waistline also became popular for men’s garments, as well as a shortening of the hem, sometimes up until the upper thighs. Though it was still frowned upon to have the braies showing from in-between the cotte and the hosen.

Looking at manuscript drawings, it seems that buttons were the more popular choice of closure for the cote.

Gugel

Also called a chaperon in France.

This is a versatile hood which could be worn and styled in various ways. It fashionably has a long “tail”, called a liripipe, and the cape was highly customizable by dagging the seams with leaf patterns, semicircles, stripes etc.

Kidney pouch & other bags

Also called a chaperon in France.

This is a versatile hood which could be worn and styled in various ways. It fashionably has a long “tail”, called a liripipe, and the cape was highly customizable by dagging the seams with leaf patterns, semicircles, stripes etc.

Turnshoes

Tthe common method of production was to turn-stitch shoes made of vegetable-tanned leather. The sole and upper were sewn together backwards and then turned inside out, making them more durable and moisture-resistant.

Shoe styles can generally be considered unisex; for example, shoes with straps were popular for both sexes. In addition, leather could be dyed in various ways, such as black with iron oxide or red with madder.