What did peasants wear in the Middle Ages?

Question

I am trying to write a story, however my searches have been unsuccessful. I keep looking for facts on the Middle Ages in depth. I can't find any good resources, I also tried watching "historically accurate movies" but i keep coming up short

Answer 1

Most had just one garment, which served as their daytime wear, and blanket at night.  (Women often added rags around the 'nether regions', very handy at that time of the month.)  So,if you 'lost your shirt' while gambling, this was an especially bad thing.

An awesome  movie illustrating this well is A Knight's Tale, starring Heath Ledger. (!), 2001.  He runs across poet Geoff Chaucer, who's lying naked on the road because he lost his clothes in a card game.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183790/

Answer 2

rages and goofy hats or scarf

Answer 3

Until 1200 A.D. English peasants wore a simple T-tunic of varying lengths.  The fabric was usually wool and the pattern was simple.  Colors were determined by the plants available when the cloth needed dyeing.  

Children wore cut down versions of the tunics.  Women, if they could, wore an additional skirt and used rags at that time of month.  

Legs were protected with wrappings and later with loose breeches.   Sandles were the cheapest footwear followed by leather slippers similar in construction to moccasins.  Boots were more expensive and required better leather.  Children rarely had shoes in the summer.  

To the basic tunic, skirt and leggings, peasants added simple circle cloaks or sheep skin jerkins for warmth.  Those peasants who didn't own sheep of their own would often pick up scraps of wool off bushes and shrubs.  They also learned how to make linen before the nobles knew of its existence--and they learned how to combine linen and wool into linsey-woolsey.  

A T-tunic, by the way, could be waist length or ankle length or somewhere in between.  As the material wore out, smaller tunics were cut from it (children's clothes, for instance) and scraps were used for other things.  

Scraps of linen were eventually used in paper making.  Because linen was so valuable in that area, linen production boomed and not even the smallest scrap was thrown away.  In fact, people raided old graves for the linen shrouds.  They became known as rag-pickers.

Answer 4

I looked up "Medieval attire" in Google and there is a ton of information!

The links I submitted here have all the gender styles as well as hierarchy types of garments.

Very descriptive, so this should help. I think the second link will give you what your looking for.