women in middle ages

WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES

-PEASANTS

The ideal of beauty was that the girls wear curly blonde hair, fair skin and proportionate body.
The clothes were at first: dresses, coats and very big clothes.
Peasant women (the most of the women were peasants) worked in the fields, cultivated vegetables and work in workshops. Some many women didn't work, they just stayed at home and taked care of the kids.

-NOBLE CLASS

They could afford imported fabrics (like silk made in china).
Overall they dress with more luxureur than the peasants clothing. They also had acess to the best fabrics, clothing and the nobility had a lot of sleeves. Women wore hats and veils.
they used their best dresses to the fests where they denced and eated a lot.