They were the Jimmy Choos of their day. Known as poulaines, pointy leather shoes were the height of fashion in 14th century Britain. Medieval men and women about town, however, suffered for their ...

It is said clothes make the man, but in medieval times women were much better dressed than their male counterparts. Women often wore better quality clothes than men in the Middle Ages, an ...

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Women in the Middle Ages often wore better quality clothes than men, concludes an expert who studied textile remnants from the period from 400 to 1000 A.D. Women in the Middle Ages often wore better ...

If you buy clothes in modern Japan, you can get cheap T-shirts for a few hundred yen. However, in times of ancient and medieval times when there was no mass production technology, clothes were ...

Fashion-conscious medieval men paid the price for their love of pointy-toed shoes with a sharp increase in bunions, archaeologists have said. Shoe styles changed significantly in the 14th Century from ...

For centuries, women have consistently outlived men, a trend consistent across various cultures. But in the cramped and ...