How did Knights dress when they weren't in battle?
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- A knight couldn’t wear a heavy suit of armour all the time. So what did he wear when he was off the battlefield and how did the clothing of the people around him reflect their social status? In this episode, Jason explores how clothes changed through the Middle Ages and how the fashion industry arguably evolved out of trade along the Silk Road.
• Executive Producer: Jason Kingsley OBE
• Executive Producer: Chris Kingsley
• Senior Producer: Brian Jenkins
• Producer: Edward Linley
• Director: Edward Linley
• Presenter: Jason Kingsley OBE
• Camera: Lindsey Studholme
• Editor: Lindsey Studholme
• Editor: Dominic Read
• Stills Photographer: Kasumi
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• Audio: Liam Flannigan
• Sound Design: Liam Flannigan
• Animation Artwork: Edouard Groult
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• Additional Camera: Neil Phillips
• Additional Sound: Elizabeth Carlyon
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"A knight couldn’t wear a heavy suit of armour all the time." are you telling me that they didn't sleep in their suits of plate, like all of my characters in video games?
Cheryl whooosh
commander31able my character never slept! Besides, the whole megaubermarvelous 2 handed zwiechopper strapped to his back wouldn’t let him lay down.
@Cheryl Why are you talking like a valley girl from the 80s?
@Cheryl It's not a woosh if you're mocking them with something utterly unrelated to anything.
@Cheryl Are you under the impression that youth vernacular has stayed the same since Clueless was in theatres? And why would an SJW care about the original comment?
It's like someone said "man, it's hot out", and you drove by screaming "LEMONS!" in a Russian accent.
I went to school in Malaysia for a couple of years and I was given the choice of long pants or shorts. I chose long. On my first day of school all the kids said “wow you must be very rich”. I wasnt ( by western standards) so I said “no, I’m not rich, why do you say that.”.
They”because you have longs pants - you can afford the extra fabric”.
So it’s just the same centuries later in some places.
Do Malaysians actually say "pants" to mean trousers?
I'm from Malaysia and I assume you went to an international school. Didn't know kids there actually say that, since I always thought int'l schoolkids were rich.
@@theradgegadgie6352 Yeah, although trousers are used but its pretty uncommon among Malaysians
@@Ayra_Is_Cool_lol Man hearing students from international/private schools sounds pretty chill. When I went through kindergarten/primary/secondary school was like being a medieval peasant. You had no say on your clothes and duty lol
@LagiNaLangAko23 primary school children maybe. Although nowadays most parents do buy long trousers for them instead of short pants.
....The Fashion Police were real.
There is always a code to dress properly in every civilization
Sumptuary laws
Yeah, I'd have been hung or burned for heresy being a woman wearing breeches... and screw wearing a corset.
@@allisonshaw9341 thinking of victorian upper class. pesant women wore practical clothing and no one wore corsettes as they hadnt been invented yet.
@@janehrahan5116 that and a well fitted corset is super comfy and gives amazing bust and back support
"What did they wear when they were not fighting?"
Clothes.
Hah, can't trick me.
Not always :p
@@Vlad_Tepes_III serious question, were people sleeping in naked exist back then? Ik its going be cold but did they exist?
@@zaidanhakim1072 Putting on clothes after a vigorous session of babymaking would be a bit tedious, also blankets existed, I'm sure.
Maybe "Knighties"?
Yes, you can find the proof of it in illuminated manuscripts
"If you're headed to the Blue Palace you might want to rethink that outfit"
I love that we are still obsessed with this game
The "wild men" incident (my teacher used to call it "the dance of fireflies", not sure where it comes from) happened to Charles VI. of France and it was allegedly one of the reasons why he lost his marbles.
Edit: Googled that later. Yes, its called the "ball of burning men" (Bal des Ardents), but honestly, "the dance of fireflies" is almost sadistically poetic.
You would not believe your eyes
If ten million fireflies
Lit up the world as I fell asleep
'Cause they fill the open air
And leave teardrops everywhere
From ten thousand lightning bugs
As they tried to teach me how to dance
A foxtrot above my head
A sock hop beneath my bed
A disco ball is just hanging by a thread (thread, thread)
Leave my door open just a crack
Please take me away from here
'Cause I feel like such an insomniac
Please take me away from here
Why do I tire of counting sheep?
Please take me away from here.
Good quality wool is wonderful stuff. The really good stuff will float. It will still keep you warm when its wet, IF it still has its lanolin.
Living and working on the damp cold north west coast of British Columbia, good quality heavy wool clothing was a valuable thing to have.
Wool was one of the products that went from west to east along the silk roads.
"Good quality wool is wonderful stuff. The really good stuff will float."
A feature sailors learnt to really appreciate when they fell in the water and realised their new fancy synthetic coats didn't.
I'm on the BC coast too and very much appreciate my wool
Good quality wool floats, I didn’t know that. I’ve read elsewhere about the relatively high number of Tudor period women drowning was due to women going to rivers to draw water and wash clothes. If they slipped in their heavy woollen clothes weighed them down so that they couldn’t scramble out. Lucy Worsley tried recreating it and found it plausible. Both things could be true
Clean dry wool, especially finer wool might float. But once it's wet through, it'll drag you down like a stone.
Source: I keep sheep.
Sir, I’ve been waiting for your videos since I was like seven.
eight minus one is "like" seven.
And prescriptive grammar is like being educated, but is actually pedantic.
Translation: I ain’t never bothered to read nothin!
Chris Barrett
That’s not a translation
Mister Opera
No it's not.
An older video but still so damned good.
This is how history lessons should be.
are you mad? this is just 1 year old.
older?
Not really, it is a particular bad video and what makes it even worse is that so many people seem to think this is valid and historically correct. He doesn't narrow the topic down to a specific region and time period. The knights of Burgundy in the late 15th century would have dressed completely different compared to the Norman Knight in the early 12th century for example. He also doesn't show any examples of pictures of knights (for example Morgan Picture Bible or any other iconography). He doesn't even give any sources for his claims. I am sorry if you thought this video was legit
Great video- I am new to re-enacting Medieval but have 26 years of experience in the Civil War re-enactment fields, and I am enjoying your vids. Our ancestors were intelligent when it came to keeping warm, and keeping cool. Wool breathes, even in the hottest weather. So does linen. They wore fashion as they found it attractive at the time. We cannot judge by modern standards when we have unlimited fabrics to choose from, and they did not.
They had use what was available.
Thankfully, there were no synthetic fabrics back then. Polyester is my most hated fabric.
Would love to hear more about a) clothing (eg the details of your unwashed base layer for armor: the fabric, the cut, the fastenings), and b) social impact of the plague.
Love the videos, thanks for producing them.
7:15 "Humanity doesnt change : humanity always wear clothes for covering themself, for their social status, and basically to show off"
So OOTD and hypebeast even existed in middle ages
This is why when I go to my LARP events and go out for food, I don't drop costume or character. My clothes are comfortable, and I like the attention.
The animation is hilarious!
I often see fashion trends and think: "Oof, that look is not going to age well." Does medieval fashion really look sillier than mullets or parachute pants? I guarantee that people in the future are going to be laughing at some of the stuff rappers are wearing these days.
We're laughing at them now... I know I am, when I look at low riding jeans or those that make them look as if they're wearing a loaded diaper.
There must have been people in the medieval times who looked at the contemporary fashion and thought to themselves "...just why?"
And we would laugh at the plastic coutute the future-people will, as the future-future-people will look back.
People dress silly to show off, and they probably always will
“We have invented totally new style of clothing, we call them PARACHUTE PANTS!” *15th century cossacks look over in perturbation
Jim Jam Banana Slam like jeans with rips all over them what a stupid thing that is
you answer a lot of questions that i would have thought of and just as many that i would never have thought of as well all in each episode whenever i watch this channel
Thank you, this is an amazing series. You are a fantastic presenter Jason.
The sumptuary laws were adopted to prevent people who were wealthy (usually from trade) from imitating the clothing of the hereditary nobility. Keep in mind that the nobility had a prominent role in governing the kingdom because they participated in the heriditary legislative bodies which adopted laws and levied taxes. (In England, the House of Lords, which had a veto on legislation and tax laws until around 1905.) The sumptuary laws restricted wearing certain fabrics and furs to different levels in society, with wearing the richest and most costly to royalty. As noted, rich traders and merchants who could afford to do so often dressed above their social status. Keep in mind that knights were not "nobles," which in the UK, are dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts and barons, who sat in the House of Lords. Knights were fighting men who fought during wars, were often the offspring of noble families, and many were elected to the House of Commons. Children of the monarchs often received noble titles, which is why Princes William and Harry are now dukes.
Canon law still has sumptuary laws restricting certain items of clothing and certain colors to the top brass of the Catholic Church.
Th sumptuary laws also prohibited the use of certain colours as well
medieval STOLEN VALOR!
What about when peasants started wearing shoes with long toes that reached up to their knees and they had to pass a law restricting toe length according to income?
Nihil Istic wow my shoes would have toes then
See that man with gilded dagger, wearing brooches and jewelry and expensive cloth?
LET'S MUG HIM!
You've be watching VLDL,
Another superb video! This channel should be mandatory to watch in all schools!
It's funny to think about fashion today, compared to back then. If I'm honest, I think we're being even more ridiculous today, and the reason is very simple.
In the Middle Ages, the cloth might vary in color and material, but the shapes remained -broadly- the same. Today however, when you watch the fashion shows, and what people wear on the catwalks, even the very shape and size of the clothings, seems incredibly excessive. I imagine 'fancy clothing' back then, was still more practical than fancy clothing today.
This channel is honnest;y awesome. I can't get enough. Thanks for making these, I made sure to subscribe :)
The production quality of these videos is incredible
This is one of your better episodes. Thanks for showing us the work clothes worn by the upper class, because usually we only see their court finery.
Thanks also for explaining the trade and the effects of the plague on this aspect of European culture.
It's a shame the James Burke documentary series "The Day the Universe Changed" and "Connections" aren't around anymore. One episode explained the connections between the plague and fancy underwear.
@@Shan_Dalamani I loved Connections.
6:49 Well... not me, i absolutely LOVE medieval clothing especially over modern clothes or the clothes i grew up with. I love it way more than fantasy clothing even and find it truly beautiful and fascinating. 😊
I think he makes a great point at the end, while obviously not everything is the same, a lot of this really does sound quite familiar. The politics of fashion and accessories seems to have changed very little over the last thousand or so years.
But, what about the most important piece of clothing of all?
*THE CODPIECE*
The left side/right side has to contrast with the color of the corresponding leg. Otherwise it might not garner the appropriate attention in low lighting.
@@Munkenba A common practice was to have an their's "over sized"
The codpiece came about in northern Italy, where the fashion for very tight hose and short tunics showed off the ehm... natural assets of young, often gay, men. Laws were passed forbidding such revealing clothing and thus the codpiece was invented, probably I think with a bit of tongue in cheek protest.
@@vergiliusbrutus7535, perhaps partly accurate, but it had more to do with how clothing was worn and the gay thing sounds made up.
Tights at the time were not all of one piece. There were two pieces, one for each leg, joined at the rear usually with laces. So in the front the only covering for the genitalia was linen underpants. I imagine that would feel very vulnerable. It's certain that as shorter tunics came into style men just wanted to have a bit more protection in that area. There was a period when some men sported oversized codpieces, the equivalent of padded bras or putting produce in your pants.
@@vergiliusbrutus7535 true...
I love how down to earth he is. So not into showing off. He could. But that's not his style.
>Be nobleman
>Show up to party as a wildman
>laugh.stainedglass
>some dude gets too close to us with a torch
>flames.death
>die like a peasant
>Be idiot noble
>See some wildmen at a party
>Bring a torch and try to get a closer look.
>Turns out it is the king and his buddies
>Accidently set them on fire
>Oh_Shit.jpg
@@1973Washu ah yes, the other point of view
"accidentally"
>using le ebin meme arrows on sites other than 9gag XD
@@user-hu6pk3zs3i that's from 4chan, lad
"If you can't drag it, you can't afford it."
As true then as it is now.
That fire story was intense. It started off as all in good fun with the funny animations and noises then ending in complete disaster. haha By the way this channel is quite the find! I love the content.
Wow Those sewing machines bring back memory's when I worked for Jason Kingsley at Past Tents back in 2019 to 2015 great days miss them.
hey Mark, they're all still there!
I appreciate this history of (medieval) fashion.
To be honest, I find medieval clothing looked great. Better than today's standard t-shirt/jeans/sneakers combo.
Man your vids are awesome!! Super informative and the production value is stunning
I am so impressed with the quality of your series. Very well done!!
Thanks.
Great video Jason. You explain a complex subject very clearly. We are as silly as they were because humans are human in any century. Using clothing as a measure of social rank is just as valid now as then.
I never knew I had these questions. Thanks for still answering!
I love the thumbnail! The idea that a knight would be kicking around the garage doing some minor repairs and handywork on his day off.
What a lovely video with great information. I adore this channel greatly.
I'm glad I came across your channel. Very informative and entertaining. I've always been interested in medieval times and knights and castles and all that so it's great to have some of the questions answered that I used to ask myself 👍
Platform shoes, big sleeves, fancy patterns? Dolemite isn't just a kung fu streetwise pimp, bardic rapper and all around gangsta, but apparently a man of high class capable of rubbing elbows with the nobility of medieval courts.
Nice
Had a scholarly lecture on the history of shoes yesterday and what we would call platforms today have been around in Europe since medieval times. Persia and middle east possibly even longer.
Also visits the court often.
Sorry for that joke. I couldn't resist.
LOLOL....good one!
I'm writing a novella with medievalesque outfits and armors. I wanted to say thanks for providing this, it was a very helpful visual aid
Glad it was helpful!
@@ModernKnight 🙏🏾
😄😄 I just love your stories, and your way of describing the lives and times of all things medieval, I can see you as a bard and story teller in a kings court when you weren't going of to joust and wreak havoc 🤭🤭
I'm so happy to discover this channel (just subscribed). I really enjoy it! greets from a German arthistorian
Absolutely loved this video!❤️ very informative :)
A very good and informative video. Thank you Jason :D
Mortal Gunner my pleasure. Glad you like them.
you have no idea how much i love your videos!
If “being burnt to death when you’re dressed up as a wild man at a party” isn’t listed in top 10 ridiculous ways to die, that list isn’t authentic !!!
Does who it is matter? Dancing yourself to death in a tutu probably doesn't make the list... but when it happened to a senior military man having a laugh with the Kaiser, somehow it feels like it might.
1:05 '''Your new boots taste fantastic!'
Love your videos. I would love to see videos about medieval craftsman and how they worked together. For example, where did the gold thread come from and who made it?
Tom N. Oh, yes, that would be interesting
Man, I love your videos. Its really facinating.
Beautiful horses. Highly educational, with a host who's a rather pleasant listen. If only all history was made this interesting.
Speaking just for myself in terms of the end of the video what I wear has also greatly become a sort of symbol of who I am. Anyone who has met me can almost certainly recognize me at a glance because of it.
I don't think medieval fashion was silly at all. It was way more charming than today's clothing
It's also very comfortable. In the SCA I became used to wearing long dresses, cloaks, and carrying my stuff around in pouches (the latter helps you really decide what the essentials are, vs. all the extraneous stuff most people carry around with them).
I love this! Keep it up!!
that fabric is absolutely beautiful in the colors
Informative and Entertaining. Bravo!
Man that coat looks comfy
That pomegranate fabric is stunning omg 😍
I love your videos. Wonderful stuff.
Get this man a show on the History Channel.
He's a businessman and an independent creator. Jason doesn't need that mainstream crap, it would ruin his amazing work.
@@thechosenone4881 , as you said AMAZING WORK. I'd much rather watch him than any of the crap on History.....
Barry MacDonald , don't you mean the false history channel? Most of their shows are crap and false.
Nah, they are busy with the important history like aliens and pawn shops, they couldn't possibly fit in something like this.
Or team with Lindybeige and John Townsend to cover even more history
I was so trendy when I was young, now being older, l like the timeless classic look ................ great video!
6:46 really true conclusion, you spread a good message :)
It is important to put things in their context. As Knight Errant says: learn to love the sources !
Stylists should bring back medieval fashion!
That wild men on fire cartoon really made me laugh out loud! But excellent video all round yet again.
Thanks!
Our pleasure, thanks for your support.
Another grand video...
This is quit interesting and intriguing. Thank you.
Please can you make a video about haircuts and hairstyles?
Thank you for the time, effort, and expense you put into these videos.
Thanks for watching.
I remember that story of the young French king...Another Charles? I read about it in The Distant Mirror: the calamitous 14th century. If memory serves he slowly unraveled after that fire accident. Didn’t he physically attack his retinue, killing a few? Poor guys hid behind there shields completely confused.
It was Charles VI and indeed this poor king had mental issues. He suffered hallucinations and once attacked and killed 4 of his guardsmen. After that episode he was in depression (as we would say now) and to entertain him, his wife (Isabeau de Bavière) regularly organized banquets and parties. And that event occurred during one of these bals (organized for the wedding of one of the Queen's lady in waiting). In French we call it "Le bal des ardents".
I want to thank you for reviving my interest in history and docu's again. Such a relief!
Great quality content and executed with just the perfect aproach and respect. I don't even know you but your passion expresses what an honourable man you are.
Give this man a castle and the Lamborghini of horse's allready!
He already has that. He's an eccentric multimillionaire CEO who personally has 14 Lamborghini horses in his private stables. And he is using some of his wealth to truly make a well produced show for us, even though we aren't that many. I mean, that animation was probably nothing to him, but for any one of us, it would cost more than we make in a month, and would be impossible to actually be able to pull off financially. And all that armor and weaponry he has probably cost several hundreds of thousands of dollars combined, and any ordinary person wouldn't be able to have but a fraction of it. The fact that he has all of those cool toys is such a treat for us, as we get to take part in it and really see it for ourselves. And it's not just an expert who has borrowed an expensive and historically accurate piece of gear showing it to us; it's a man who owns it and regularly uses it, knows about all it's strengths and flaws and can tell us how it is to own and operate it long term. It's so cool :D
@@michaelcaplin8969 I'm stunned. Thank's for sharing this :P
@@jordymolnar8351 I was pretty shocked as well when I found out. He is the founder and CEO of Rebellion, a games company producing games such as the Sniper Elite series. He has an office filled with armor and medieval weapons. Lives on an old farm and spends 4 hours each day (two in the morning before work and two after) maintaining his horses and carrying their poop himself. Also travels all over Europe with his horses to joust regularly. All in all, a pretty weird and fun guy :)
Thank you.
Is this actually broadcasted on TV?, It looks like it, the quality of these videos is really good
very informative and entertaining
I watch these because they are informative. But it doesn't hurt that he is handsome
kari bendler you should marry him
Same can be said about your own avatar misses Bendler. ;)
I gotta agree 😁
Wholesome
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Absolutely Brilliant ! 🙇🙏🤺👑
Thanks.
5:46 whoa that lady is the real MVP
Very, very interesting and accessible
Watching this in 2020 during the quarantine.
need that intro song as ringtone cuz i feel hope in it. your channel is great btw :-)
Best Channel on TH-cam
So ,mainly the difference was like work jeans vs designer jeans with rhinestones .
Neat info!
I am more comfortable in my 13th to 14th century garb than I am in 21st century clothing...except for scrubs. Medical scrubs are very comfortable.
I used to wear late Viking/early Norman period garb as part of my impression, and, it was absolutely more comfortable than modern clothes. I used to go back to work on a Monday, after a weekend event, and, putting my work uniform on made me feel claustrophobic.
@@ExUSSailor I agree 100% on the claustrophobic effect of modern clothing. During the winter time I will sleep in my cotton chemise that I've had for over 25 years. It was made by a dear friend of mine who introduced me into the SCA and has since passed away. I also have some Viking barb that I find very comfortable.
That should have been garb not barb.
I'm more comfortable in my court jester outfit when I'm at funerals.
I'm a software engineer... I'm not sure they would kick me out if I showed up in 13th century garb every day. Nobody commented on a guy that showed up in mismatched Crocks every day.
So long as I can work in them, they don't care what I wear. I'm sure that some folks would think it's really cool too.
This golden red fabric looks like it is from my home country India . Indian silk is still one of the most beautiful and finest that you can get .
Love your videos, and this is a joke post for a bit of fun.
I saw a picture once of a modern day soldier from USA wearing a hat. He was likely from New York and a fan of the American sport known as baseball, because he was wearing a baseball cap. Baseball being a generally short lived sport as it has existed for less than 1000 years.
Surely I hope people of the future don't make such generalizations as we do of the past because I am an American Airman, and I hate wearing baseball caps.
If you were to specify every single bloody thing every single bloody time, the video would have infinite length.
I completely agree with you, in fact today's people are endulged in their illusion of fashion, but when it comes to dressing for survival, medieval folk where realistic and dressed the right way
You should go and research medieval hat trends if you think people of the past didn't endulge in fashion!
This is all so amazing….was there different cuts and weaves of wool..?
I believe that I have found the Ian McCullum of the Knights genre.
A Sword Jesus?
@@JoinMeInDeathBaby
Now if we can just get him to grow a goatee. 😁
@@worldtraveler930 Who is Ian McCullum?
@@matthewnapoli6814 Ian McCollum runs the Forgotten Weapons channel
I love your videos
Didn't expect the ending to be this wholesome
I love what you’re wearing in this video. Does your 3/4 length wooden suit have a hood? Also what is the blue shoulder cloak called?
Very interesting video
I love dressing in my garb, I do period reenactment called the SCA. It's really neat to see everybody dressed up and its just like you said.
Now if that ain't a wonderful outfit Jason is wearing. Just by looking at it you can tell that the clothes (the tunic and the blue gugel) are comfortable and well made.
Gorgeous horse!
Good video ! I'll be back for more. Thanks :-)
I think this is a very interesting topic! I'm having trouble finding references to make pants (or at least whatever covered the bottoms) of the Middle Ages. I'm looking into a fantasy costume to wear, but I like "realistic" fantasy. I like practicality and I wouldn't mind some historical background. Anyone got any good sources for me to check out?
Check out a website called "Garb the World". www.garbtheworld.com/
Great to watch this it is so Nice to learn about medeval things 😊😊.