Female Clothing Research

**You_Guess_Who** · December 16, 2018, 09:52 PM

When I start to look into siege maps, one of the aspect to make it more immersive is having the civilians look medieval. Then, I realized I have no real ldea on how historical medieval female dress outside of stereotypical popular portrayals. No idea means no idea what model are usable, and how new textures should be.

Long story short, we need one more well-dressed model (but not princesses mind you), and one peasant each for:
Western European
Eastern Roman
Rus
Steppe
Muslim
African

Additional Subculture variants can be added.

So, help me to create your Waifus in-mod!

**Cometopuli** · December 17, 2018, 07:05 AM

i can post some frescoes of bulgarian bolyarki(noblewomen)

**Cometopuli** · December 17, 2018, 07:21 AM

**You_Guess_Who** · December 17, 2018, 09:25 AM

Nice! Others in the Balkan area won't be too different, wouldn't they?

**Cometopuli** · December 17, 2018, 11:43 AM

Im not quiet sure.Im not a expert in medieval balkan clothing nor an enthusiast.but i will check out and post whatever i find

**Cometopuli** · December 17, 2018, 11:50 AM

This is from Serbia.

**Cometopuli** · December 17, 2018, 11:59 AM

this is a bulgarian one its a reconstruction from the Zemen Monastery.

**Cometopuli** · December 17, 2018, 12:37 PM

The first one is bulgarian peasents being taxed by a bolyar.The second one is Builders and the third one are smiths.All of these are bulgarian frescoes

**Cometopuli** · December 17, 2018, 12:56 PM

ps. please dont give bulgarians furry hats. also most of these waifus are already taken

also this one bulgarian peasants breaking some pagan

its from the boyana church 13th century

**Cometopuli** · December 18, 2018, 12:43 PM

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...XIV-XV-century this one gives alot of detailed information

here some soldiers not in their battle armour as well

**Darkylord** · January 05, 2019, 02:45 PM

Part of my card collection i bought in paris a long time ago

**Cometopuli** · January 06, 2019, 05:03 AM

those are abit too late period

**tomtucker** · January 08, 2019, 08:45 AM

Looking for medieval female fashion in Al Andalus (my homeland), i found those pictures of a book from th XIII century which depicts a bit how them will look like, the book tell, a love story called ''Hadith Bayad wa Riyad'' and is the only book of the muslim period in Spain which is conserve, ironically in the Vaticano library... in them we can see that all women were not face covered.

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**tomtucker** · January 08, 2019, 08:50 AM

Also i will attach a website where they describe so much better how were the clothing in Al Andalus https://thesiegeofseville.wordpress....of-al-andalus/

**Flyingkiki** · January 10, 2019, 07:34 AM

You have some interesting stuff in this PDF (texts in french though) from Viollet-le-Duc's work:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...1rgcu_IOwO85gQ

And if you have a Scribd access (free for 30 days) :

A History of Fashion and Costume in the Medieval World
https://fr.scribd.com/document/53285...on-and-Costume

Medieval Costume in England and France
https://fr.scribd.com/document/18384...and-France-pdf

**Flyingkiki** · January 10, 2019, 07:35 AM

Oh and this pdf, with some iconography : http://excalibur-dauphine.org/IMG/pd..._Moyen_Age.pdf

**Azorica** · February 16, 2019, 11:47 AM

I'll check around for local dressing in the period, probably Monday, there is a library nearby with tons of books, maybe i'll have some luck on that info.

Although I believe iberian dresses weren't particularly different from each others and from Burgundy/France... Maybe a little more breezy