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  • Hooded Long Tunic Renaud Grey

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  • Tunic Ekwin Brown

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  • Hooded Long Tunic Renaud Natural

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  • Tabard Thibaud Black

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  • Long Tunic Everard Black

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  • Wool Tunic Lodin Green

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  • Under Tunic Leif Bordeaux

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  • Tunic Ekwin Dark Blue

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  • Left Side Surcoat Aleran Red

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  • Belt Hedwig Black

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  • Bonnet Dagmar Black/Natural

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  • Bundling Hood Wolfram Camel

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High medieval tunics

The tunic, made mainly from linen, wool or—more rarely—from silk for the more prosperous, was an essential element of clothing in the High Middle Ages.

During this period, it was primarily the cut of the tunic that changed. Nobles fancied their tunics to be more form-fitting, and started wearing them not just as undergarments—as had been customary in the Roman Empire—but as a distinct outer garment. Among the lower strata, however, the tunic remained wide and comfortable, because restrictive clothing was not practical for hard labor.

How sumptuary laws affected the tunic in the High Middle Ages

During the High Middle Ages, the lower strata—farmers, for instance—wore clothing made from far less opulent fabrics than did the nobility; hence, someone’s station in society was distinctly discernible from their clothing—and not just because most peasants could never afford the same colorful fabrics as the nobles, who deemed it important to set themselves apart from the rest of the populace. Therefore, sumptuary laws codified who was allowed to use which fabrics and colors and who wasn’t. Farmers, for instance, were forbidden to wear dyed garb; their fabrics had to remain untreated. So the nobles flaunted splendiferous, colorful tunics, while those of the peasants were left as simple and practical as possible.

Sources for tunics in the High Middle Ages

Unfortunately, neither tunics nor other textiles from the High Middle Ages were descried in sufficient amount; consequently, a great deal of knowledge about the appearance of that time still eludes us. The little we do know has been inferred mainly from paintings dating from that time, in which, however, motifs depicting nobility and clergy were far more popular than anything showing the simple people. As a result, we can garner even less insight, unfortunately, into the everyday garb worn by the majority of the population than that of a few nobles.

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