Who made the clothes for citizens in medieval europe???

Question

i have looked everywhere and no luck. PLEASE HELP ME!!!!

Answer 1

Usually they made by themselves at home. The few , very rich, had servants doing for them the simple ones, and tailors doing for them the best one. Remember that in the middle age clothes were mainly a loose robe to conceal the body, with no special cutting skills. Sometimes the social status was not shown by the cut or craftmanship but by the quality of fabric used and the decorations (mainly embroidery)

Meanwhile in Italy there were tailors corporations since at least the XII century . Basically an early middle age common garment was a big rough bag (more or less long and tight depending if it belong to a man, a woman, a military) and a belt. The first buttons, shirts and underwear (some of them already existing under Rome, then disappeared) were ... invented again in the late XII century by the (then) most famous tailors in Florence

Answer 2

tailors and themselves

Answer 3

CALM down. Read slowly and carefully, it's in there!  

Answer 4

In fact, there were no 'citizens' in medieval Europe. In a feudal state - as all European countries were at the time - everyone is a 'subject' of another, The concept of 'citizenship' was a long way off. If you are asking who made the clothes for the common people, the answer is probably themselves.

Answer 5

serfs

Answer 6

Poorer people would make their own clothes, richer people might have them made by professional tailors and seamstresses. Some things could be bought ready-made, like hats and scarves and shoes.

Many people were involved in cloth production, women spent a lot of time spinning wool and flax into thread, it was such an important part of women's lives in pre-industrial times that january 7th, was known as St Distaff's Day, because it was the day when women resumed the all-important task of spinning after the long christmas holiday (christmas lasted for 13 days in medieval times).  Spinning was one of the main occupations in which women earned money in medieval times. Weaving was a job done by men and women in medieval times, though men became predominant in the weaving industry during the later middle ages.