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  • Under Tunic Leif Natural

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  • Under Tunic Leif Hemp

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  • Under Dress Feme Natural

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  • Tunic Ekwin Red

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  • Dungeons & Dragons Fighter Tunic Bordeaux/Black

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  • Wool Tunic Lodin Red

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  • Skjoldehamn Cowl Knud Herringbone Olive/Grey

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  • Skjoldehamn Cowl Knud Herringbone Black/Grey

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  • Under Tunic Gilbert Natural

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  • Wool Tunic Lodin Green

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  • Skjoldehamn Cowl Bjorn Grey

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  • Dungeons & Dragons Fighter Tunic Hemp/Brown

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  • Wool Tunic Lodin Blue

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  • Skjoldehamn Cowl Knud Herringbone Burgundy/Grey

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  • Long Under Tunic Bernard Natural

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  • Under Dress Feme Bordeaux

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  • Left Side Surcoat Aleran Blue

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  • Tunic Ekwin Black

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  • Hooded Long Tunic Renaud Natural

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  • Wool Tunic Lodin Dark Grey

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  • Skjoldehamn Cowl Bjorn Autumn Green

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  • Hooded Long Tunic Renaud Black

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  • Tunic Ekwin Brown

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  • Right Side Surcoat Aleran Red

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  • Tabard Thibaud Natural

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  • Under Dress Feme Dark Blue

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  • Big Brooch Adil Brass

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  • Long Tunic Arnaud Natural

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  • Left Side Surcoat Aleran Natural

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  • Right Side Surcoat Aleran Natural

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  • Wool Tunic Lodin Grey

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  • Long Tunic Arnaud Grey

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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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