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This type of hood is typical of the 14th century. It is fitted and buttoned at the front. It can be worn unbuttoned over another linen headdress.
It can be of one colour or parti-coloured.

Possible options :
- with or without lining
- metal or wool buttons
- visible handmade seams
- lining : linen, blanket (fine white wool), silk

Sources :
- Très belles Heures de Notre-Dame (BnF NAL 3093, folio 161v), 1375-1425 c.
- London excavation no. 246
- Alexander's novel

Price from €70

The shirt is part of the underwear. It was worn throughout the Middle Ages.
It can be made of linen, hemp, nettle or futaine.
Its size and fineness of the fabric can vary according to the status of its wearer.
The sleeves and collars are adapted to the fashion of the clothes worn over them. The collar can be split for nursing mothers.

Sources:
French Old Testament, f.42v, ca. 1250
The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry

Possible options:
- Exposed handmade seams
- Round neck, V-neck, or with amigaut
- Material : linen (bleached or natural), hemp

Price from 85€

Sleeveless shirt 2nd half 14th and 15th century.
Simple interpretation based on available sources.
There is a shirt top dated to the end of the 15th century which has been found and preserved.
It is quite complex and plays a real supporting role for the chest, but one can assume that there are simpler models when one looks at the whole set of representations.
The shirt is fitted with a linen belt that can be adjusted with a needle.There is a natural pleating formed by the bending.

Sources:
-Codices vindobonenses 2759-2764 - Austrian National Library - Vienna
- Codex of Jenský Czech Rep. IV.B.24, f. 78v - 1490-1510
- Castle Ranis, Thuringen (Germany) - Folder dated 14th century found, photographed and then lost.

Possible options :
- Exposed handmade seams
- Round collar, V-neck or with amigaut
- Material: linen (bleached or natural), hemp
- Thinner straps
- Embroidery on straps

Price : From 66€

This headdress was present as early as the 13th century and was supposedly still worn during the 15th century. It is the equivalent of the male simple linen coiff for women.
A headdress was found during the discovery of a relic attributed to St. Brigid, hence the name commonly used nowadays.
It is dated to the end of the 13th century.
The found headdress is decorated with several embroideries including an interlaced herringbone stitch.
It can be worn on its own or used as the basis for a veil or hood.

Possible options:
- With or without embroidery
- Visible handmade seams

Price from 25€

This dress, also called a cotte, is worn over the shirt. It is cut close to the body on the bust then flares out.
Its neckline can be very wide until the top of the shoulders is completely revealed.
It opens on the front with multiple buttons.
The sleeves are fitted and buttoned.

Source:
- Speculum humanae salvationis Latin 511 Folio 16r
- Herjolfsnes excavations

Options :
- with or without lining
- plain or two-coloured
- Metal or fabric buttons
- Visible handmade seams

Price: from 340€

This dress also called cotte is worn over the shirt.
It is cut close to the body on the bust then flares out.
Its neckline can be very wide until the top of the shoulders is completely revealed.
Type 2 does not have a central opening, the location and the cutting of some cups in the bias of the fabric, allows to put on the dress while keeping a garment close to the body at the bust level.
The sleeves are fitted and buttoned.

Possible options:
- with or without lining
- plain or two-tone colour
- Metal buttons
- Visible handmade seams

Source:Herjolfsnes excavations

Price: from 290€

Women's hoses used in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries (note that they are certainly earlier than the 13th century).
They are mainly made of wool and cut on the bias.
They are held in place by garters attached below the knee.

Possible options :
- visible handmade seams

Price from 55€

Simple linen apron.
It is fastened at the waist with a long strap.
Can be seen in the sources on men (very often bakers) and women.
One size fits all.

Possible options :
- visible handmade seams
- strap of varying length
- white or beige linen

Price: 45 €

This dress, also known as a cotte, is worn over a shirt. It is cut close to the body at the bust and then flares out.The neckline can be very wide, completely revealing the top of the shoulders.It opens at the front with lacing.
The sleeves are fitted and buttoned.

Sources :
Tombstone de Catherine de Warwick 1370-75
Froissart, Poems, BNF MS fr. 831, f.1, c. 1395

Options :
- with or without lining
- plain or two-tone
- Metal buttons or fabric
- Visible handmade seams

Price : from 354€

Women's surcoat from the 2nd half of the 14th century.
It has 2 distinctive features:
- The tippets, white bands encircling the arms and descending in strips.
One hypothesis is that these bands could be removable. But we have very little information on this.
- Slits allowing access to the belt worn on the dress below.

Sources :
- Le Roman de la Rose ca.1365 France
- Fais et dis mémorables des romains, Valerius maximus,1376, BNF Ms. fr. 9749 f.76v

Possible options :
- Exposed hand seams
- Linen and silk lining
- Tippet material : wool, silk, fur

Starting price: 400€

The frilled veil can be seen in the 2nd half of the 14th century in England, Germany, Hungary and the Netherlands.
To my knowledge, there are no sources for France or Italy.
There are several more or less complex types of "waffling".

Sources:
- Speculum humaniae salvationis, Lamech tormented by his wives, 14thc German
- Effigy of Maud de Grey, 1394

Price: 85€