Medieval Costume Workshop

1100 – 1500 AD

Clothing terms

• Barbette and FF Fillet

Bliaut or Bliaud

Braiesmen’s baggy undergarment worn next to the skin.

Caul

Chemise as seen in this early 1400's illumination Dionysus I humiliates the women of Locri.

Circlet

Coif

Cowl

• Large softly draped collar or hood

HenninVariations• Steeple• Truncated• Horned

Houppelande15th century fashion--Christine de Pisan presents her book to Queen Isabeau, who wears a figured houppelande lined in ermine with a broad collar

KirtleAlso known as: cote, cotte, cotte-hardie

LiripipeThe elongated point of the hood

Mantle

Parti-coloured

Poulaines“Named after its inventor, the poulaine was a shoe whose tip was a long as two feet for princes and noblemen, one foot for rich people of lower degree, and only half a foot for common people. Such shoes proved a hazard among the French Crusaders at the battle of Nicopolis (1396) when they had to cut off tips in order to be able to run away.”

Roundlet

Surcote

Tabard

Tippits

ToqueA closed top hat worn by women that developed from the fillet; it is a brimless hat with a flat crown with upright sides; a pillbox hat.

Tunic

Wimple